South Africa Gap Year Research Trip
Walking Safari in the Greater Kruger
Erm, yeah went on a 3 day walking safari. Saw animals. Walked up to a lion and Giraffes still look gay.
30th March
These African dudes do not give a shit about anything including their own safety. Today I witnessed the most utterly surreal and dangerously stupid act yet. Hippo river cottage (where I had been staying for the first month or so) was let out today on a long term rental. So at about 10 in the morning the removal van carrying all the families’ possessions turned up.
Unable to cross under the railway bridge (there is a railway line that passes the resort very close by and you have to cross under it to enter) they decided to improvise. They attempted to drive over the tracks with a 3.5 tonne lorry and subsequently got stuck across the tracks. There they stayed just spraying mud and railway gravel into the tree line wedged. Fifteen minutes later Ryan turned up with a tractor to pull them out. Now several trains come through here a day, usually at very high speed. If one hit this lorry it would have not only wiped out the train and the truck but also Ryans’ house, the main resort building and probably everyone in them. Now what astounds me the most is the Blasé attitude of everyone about an occurrence like this. “This is Africa” people just say with a shrug, as if to say fuck it if we wipe every one out shit happens. Unbelievable.
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