Selous, Ian and Matteo

Three days in the Selous, one in Beho Beho to see my great friend Ian who just came now to work in TZ and two at Impala to see another great friend, Matteo who has been busy rebuilding the lodge's lounge.
Good braai at beho and morning drive with Ian, nice scenery, nice game, also lions at pelikan pan. On the way back we got stuck so we had to walk to camp, 5 km under the midday sun in the Selous.... Good fun, we also bumped into ellies.
Matteo is doing a great job at Impala, the new building is stunning.
Pasta with boerewors and lot of beers made the first night perfect.
The day after we woke up with a bit of headache and went painting the deck when we heard an alarm call very strange and very persistent, we walked towards the sound to find a baboon barking with the strangest voice ever ( i first thought it was a kudu!!!!)
On the left side we spotted 3 lioness walking in the bush, we followed for a couple of hundred meters, every now and then the cats would stop two peer back at Matteo and me, eventually we turned our back to them and went fetching the car, impalas were now alarming everywhere, evidence of more lions around

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We "tracked" the lions back with the car, it was the siwandu pride, ten of them on the hunt.
thay tried a giraffe with no avail and then entered even thicker bush where we lost them.
Wonderful experience.

On the way out from the reserve we hybiscus and a beautiful Meller's chameleon.

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