We also saw a honey-badger who was incredibly naughty and had once escaped by digging his way out and ended up having a close encounter with one of the lions. The lion realising it had an intruder on his patch attacked it. He had it inside his mouth when the cheeky little honey-badger bit the inside of the lions mouth so hard that when the lion opened his mouth in pain, the honey-badger jumped out - how crazy is that??

One of the main projects of this centre is to educate the local people about the wonders of the cheetah. Cheetahs have become endangered due to them being killed when they attack livestock, so the centre has two cheetahs which they take round as ambassadors and let people get close up to these magnificent cats so they can see for themselves how wonderful they are. This has worked really well and now instead of the

cheetah being shot dead on the spot, the centre is called and they go and remove the cheetah and put it into Kruger or some other similar animal park. Unfortunately we didn’t get to stroke these 2 majestic animals as the handler had had to go and take one of the students to hospital as she had dropped a metal door plate on her foot and crushed her toes- ouch!!!

After the centre it was time to head back to Kruger, the plan was to head back to camp for lunch then go back out into the park. On this visit we saw impala, wildebeest, elephants, kudu and warthogs. We hadn’t seen a giraffe yet but Mike promised us one and the next thing we know we turn a corner and there was a giraffe standing behind a tree near to the road!!! They are also incredible beautiful and graceful animals but our camera cards were getting full and time was ticking by so it was time to head back to camp once