The rangers cannot drive off road but there are numerous dirt tracks and they still manage to get very close to many of the animals. As the park is a well established conservation area with strict regulations and security, the animals are unperturbed by the proximity of the vehicles. So far there has been no poaching. The ethos is that the rangers do not intervene with nature unless a situation was created by accidental human action.
During two of our game drives we had very close encounters with lions who came within inches of the vehicle and us, with J.J. advising “stay still and quiet”. From a distance we saw the remains of a lion kill of a zebra. On our last drive J.J. found combined herds of elephants, numbering around 60 with several babies, which was one of many highlights.
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