little drive then head to the Moholoholo Rehab Centre. Still it wasn’t the end of the world that we didn’t get up at the crack of dawn, we had a really good breakfast instead then headed off the Rehab Centre. The Rehab Centre was a good hour out of the park, but it did some really good work and we quite fancied seeing some of the animals close up.

The centre was very good but we weren’t really too keen on the main man. He was a bit over dramatic and told everybody, “don’t kid themselves about Kruger, it’s not conservation, it was just a zoo”!!! Well I don’t really think you can compare Kruger to Chester Zoo and although it may not be the perfect solution having the animals penned in instead of roaming wild, it is certainly better than nothing and you have to move with the times and realise that people will not live in harmony with those types of predators. These predators are

killed by farmers as the meat industry does not allow for unlicensed killing of its livestock, even if it is killed by another animal rather than by man. And how he can say that Kruger is not conservation when the figures of increasing animal numbers speak for themselves is beyond us!! After his talk we were shown around the rest of the centre by a different person, who was a lot better and more informative.

Some of the group fed some vultures and we were shown Big Ditch and his lioness friend whose name I can’t remember! Big Ditch was a male lion that they had rescued and the lioness had a bad leg so was therefore unable to hunt in the wild. We also saw a wonderful leopard who was incredibly impressive and jumped really high up the fence to get his piece of meat. They are quite chunky compared to cheetahs who are really sleek and slender.