Weekend trip

Hey guys,
Half time! The last two days went pass and they were wonderful. We made a trip to the "Kruger Nationalpark". This is the biggest nationalpark in South Africa and has the size of 19.624 km*2.
At seven a.m. a bus with all members of the internship left the children's home and drove to to the Kruger Park. We arrived at 11 o'clock and were astonished about the nature. We had booked a tour for two days. Our travel guide called Peter and borrowed us big backpags and other stuff for our trip. We started in the south of the big park and drove in groups of five in safari busses. Peter told us a lot about the nature.South Africa is very varied. For example there are more than 24.000 different types of plants (more than all types in Europe) and a beautiful landscape with mountains, rivers, velleys, the sea and steppes. Also in South Africa there is one floral region with flowers which just exist in this region (f.e. bird of paradies flower)
We drove to the southwest mountains which are overgrown with a lot of different trees, for example acacias or euphorbias. Also the granit deposit ist very large there.
In the evening we camped in the west of the park. We slept in a bushveld camp. That are little huts without electricity. We should live like the native inhabitants.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruger-Nationalpark#
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On the next day we drove back to the start. But this time we used another road. There we could see so many diffent animals. Antelopes, giraffs, hippos and the "big five".  These are some of the heaviest animals on earth. The african elephant, the rhinoceros, the african buffalo, the lion and the leopard form the big five. Especially for hunters these animals were very dangerous but valuable. Some hunters just killed these animals to get their tusks (wich are very valuable) even if these animals threatened with extinction.  My absolutely highlight was the herd of elefants withe a few "baby ellies" in it. Nothing is cuter than baby ellies...
We used the whole day for watching all these animals. At six p.m. we drove with our bus back to the children's home.

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This amazing african wild life experience was one of the best things I  have ever done. The nature and the animals are so incredible. Although the trip was so strenuous this adventure was worth it

-Alicia

Sources:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruger-Nationalpark#Landschaften
http://www.planet-wissen.de/kultur/afrika/suedafrikas_nationalparks/index.html

(27.05.17)