After these interesting sightings we carried on with indeed not much around and we already decided that before we will leave the park we will also drive up to Klopperfontein and via the gravel road there to Punda Maria and somewhere on the tar road we stopped for a large herd of elephants
whilst at Klopperfontein a group of impalas were staring into one direction for sure we waited a while but they quiet down again and so we continued
but had for sure admired and photographed one of the many impressive baobabs along that road.
We then met an extreme impressive buffalo
who attracted a lot of oxpeckers
and also a beautiful nyala bull – They are such beautiful antelopes and we are always happy when we spot them.
Then it was already time for our beloved Mahonie loop which is always a more than lovely very last loop before we are about to leave the park and we normally already looking very much forward to it. Right in the beginning we discovered a group of woodhoopoes and luckily one of them
was more than willing to pose a bit longer for us.
We also met more nyalas and kudus
and an elephant bull
and impalas
but then the rain got more and more
until same came down torrentially and we then were already half through the Mahonie loop so we simply carried on but got a bit afraid about the water masses as we also had to cross a small stream which luckily went very well and then nearly at the end of the loop a huge must have been one of the hugest elephant bulls we ever saw walked right in the middle of the road into our direction – “Really!?” We did not want to turn around as the road meanwhile was extreme slippery and the little stream must have meanwhile turned into a torrential river so we had to wait until the rain still came down. Suddenly the elephant then cleared the road and we finally reached Punda Maria camp for the obligatory final ice cream. It was a bit sad that our drive on the Mahonie loop ended that abrupt due to the rain as we spotted a lot of more antelopes through the pouring rain.
The drive until we reached the N4 was on top adventurous too as sometimes the road was completely flooded and the view was extreme bad but everything went well and we finally reached safe and sound our destination.
The end!