April 11 - Our safari lodge

The airport was only a 30 minute drive from the entrance to our lodge.

Seeing the picture of the Guardhouse reminded me that the name of the

sister lodge is River Lodge, not Earth Lodge.

Lion Sands is inside the Sabi Sands Reserve and where our lodge was located

The guards greeted us with a different dance each time we passed them

This particular dance included music

He was was quite a character 

And.....pointed us the right way!

We were greeted upon arrival 

Our lodge, Fin Foot, is one of 6 suites that make up Lions Sand Ivory Lodge, and was the closest to the main building.

Come on in!  Each suite had an open foyer, with its own infinity pool, living room on the right and bedroom on the left.

Our living room

Our bedroom with indoor and outdoor showers!

The foyer from the open side

A room with a view!

Our view

What a nice touch!

Part of our wildlife

This little guy sat on the top of this wooden pole in our foyer the whole time we were there.  We named him Marvin

The wildlife got bigger.  They liked to drink water from the trough of the infinity pool

This Nyala found loved to hang around our place

This older Nyala enjoyed munching on our bushes. If you look close, right below the white mark at the top of his face, you will see a large wound from his nostril to just under his eye where he was in a fight and an antler from his opponent  ripped up through his nostril.  It didn't seem to bother him, but it looked really bad.

A female Nyala peeking around the corner

I think this was a small bushbok

One of a million Vervet monkeys that kept us entertained

Well, when a fellow's tired, any place will do.  This was the wall around our outdoor shower!!

This baby was a Peeping Tom, looking through our bathroom windows!!