Nyala Park

Well, I can officially cross off seeing a giraffe in the wild off my bucket list.  It was truly incredible.  Even just the first one we saw we were giddy and so ecstatic.  We realized we needed to turn down our excitement when we were starting to scare our driver because she thought something was charging us, or we were falling off the vehicle we were sitting on top of.

I will start at the beginning, we were picked up early in the morning.  Took a gorgeous drive to the "valley", since we had to drive all the way down the mountains they call it the valley, stopped at an overlook that truly looked as huge as the Grand Canyon just with trees, then continued to the park.  We got there and everyone got out and went on top of the vehicles and in the back of the pickup truck they own.  I, being the adventurous one I am, asked if we could pet the giraffes.  Apparently that was a dumb question being that they were in the wild.  Who knew.  

The first thing we saw was a Giraffe and we were all so excited and wanted to take pictures forever.  They must have thought we were hilarious because they knew we would see so much more and kept saying, "Okay there is more to see." None of us wanted to leave.  Little did we know much more was ahead.  At the park there was Impala, Nyala, Water buffalo, Wilderbeasts, Zebras, Monkeys, and Giraffes.  Giraffes were the coolest thing to me because they were so active.  The Impala looked exactly like a deer, they just have stripes.  The field managers told us that this was as active they had ever seen the giraffes.  The Zebra were awesome too because they are Zebra, but they just stand.  The monkeys were so tiny and they just jumped like crazy from tree to tree.  The Wilderbeasts looked way scary and were REALLY fast.  

We spend a good three hours out driving, stopped for some lunch, then continued another 45 minutes looking around.  Afterwards we left and went to a restaurant just for ice cream and coffee.  If you haven't gathered yet, that's what they do early evenings.  We then got pizza for dinner and tried some "crisps" (which is the name for French Fries here) from "Steers" which is essentially Burger King/McDonalds  The pizza was really good.  We had a relaxing night at home, edited some pictures, watched a movie, then we all headed to bed pretty early so we could get up early for church.

I will update on church today at the end of the day.

                                         

Sorry I went a little crazy, and yes, there were other animals. I liked these :)