Safari

The over night safari started with the classic tunes blaring full blast in the vans with Mr Mcguckin or Mr Robertson dancing away, breaking fast and constantly to cause the van to bounce or hitting the roof to the beat of the song. 

After a two hour car journey we arrived at Aquela Safari Park, which was beautiful, the views every and any where were gorgeous. 

We headed straight to lunch, which all though we had eaten so much junk on the journey there, was well needed. The lunch was a buffet, we all had mountains on our plates. The food was amazing! After lunch we headed to the rooms, we unpacked and headed to enjoy some pool time .

After some relaxation we went to the safari trucks to go on the long awaited safari. We had a bus to ourselves which was great! As we entered the safari we were greeted by some hippos in the water, who were huge! 

we carried on our travels around the safari and we met many more animals such as elephants which were lovely but very static and seemed very lazy. 

Rhinos, which were also big, but less lazy and moved about. Which was exciting to watch. 

Giraffes, who i underestimated the size of their neck, the giraffe was galloping around the park with its legs hilariously kicking around in all directions. 

We seen hundreds of springbok, everywhere we went they were there. They were so small and cute. 

We had a dramatic encounter with some
Lions, which included our bus having some flat tire issues with the wheels, which Mr Mcguckin grabbed as his chance to tease us all, which was not appreciated. We stopped to get a new bus and had some sparkling grape juice with nuts and other little snacks which were delicious. We took great advantage off with views and  roamed around with Dylan popping out off bushes thinking he was funny. 

When we got on the new bus we carried on, we spotted some antelopes, Buffaloes and zebras.

After the safari we went to the rooms to get dolled up for our nighttime meal. Everyone looked lovely! And the meal was fantastic, again we all took advantage of the eat as much as you want styled buffet. 

We then all gathered in one off the rooms, which were a lot bigger, for a while until a few of us went to roast marshmallows. We were given a lesson on stars by a nice man, who showed us where Saturn, Venus and Mars was.

After a long but exciting day we headed to bed early as we were getting up at 5am for the morning safari. It was freezing and we were shattered, but Mr McGuckin still Thought it was acceptable to sing the Jurassic park theme tune at different points off the safari, which would be okay if it wasn't 6am in the morning! We seem similar animals as the night before which was so good, but then we went to ARC (Animal Rescue Centre) where we seen animals which were rescued but could not yet survive in the safari as they couldn't catch prey or defend themselves from predators. They had a crocodile, a leopard, which we got to clap, a lion and chickens or as Mr McGuckin likes to call them 'Nandos'. 

After we headed back to the hotel to get some well needed hot breakfast which went down an absolute treat to everyone!! We then packed and went home which we were all very sad about but we had an amazing time!