Struggled to get up, all! A good game drive, though! Wildebeest, elephant, white rhino, Mozambique spitting cobra!, lilac breasted roller (pics 1 - 5). Back to camp for a HUGE cooked breakfast (Carl smiles here!).

Pic. 1 Wildebeest posing for the camera

Pic.2 Elephant posing for publicity stills

Pic.3 After careful consideration the white rhino decided to find the answer to the old joke.

Pic. 4 (left) Mozambique spitting cobra, not a morning person then!

Pic. 5 (right) Lilac breasted roller lording it over our intrepid photographer.

More pool after a quick game drive (yawn, lion, etc) and a chicken potjie. Steve crawled off to bed, only to be dragged out by Carl for a late-night Amarulas drink to celebrate our last night in the bush. Finished the entire bottle! Needless to say, an early morning game drive for this morning was called off!

A relatively late awakening - 07:30! Packed up and headed for Pretoria. A cultural time-warp trip to visit some of the prime apartheid era monuments! The Voortrekker (pioneer) Monument in all its cold granite glory (pic 6). See the mad ones being Voortrekkers on their wagon!! (pic 7).

Pic.6 (left) The Voortrekker Monument

Pic.7 (right) Where'd all the oxen go?

Hunger grabbed us, so we visited the local zoo - had lunch at the zoo restaurant, then made a brief attempt to look at the animals, but all got SO depressed seeing all the poor wild creatures in captivity, we left SOON! The worst was the magnificent raptors in their small cages - such majestic birds - to be cooped up in a space so small is heartbreaking.

Then off to the spectacular Union Buildings, South Africa's administrative seat of government (pic 8).

This was followed by a walk round central Pretoria and Church Square - and beers at some sidewalk cafe. Now it's off to a local pub - and dinner ...... somewhere!