Swaziland – Conservation & Kamikaze Drivers

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It was dry, very dry. Dust tailed us as we drove, on a road left to the vagaries of the erosive elements and the passage of vehicles. Our 4x4s came out of a curve, and suddenly there they were ꟷ Africa’s most pursued wild animal: rhino. And we’d hardly entered the gates of Hlane Royal National Park! We were also the only two cars on the road, in spite of the line of Dutch and Italian tourists at the entrance.

It was dry, very dry. Dust tailed us as we drove, on a road left to the vagaries of the erosive elements and the passage of vehicles. Our 4x4s came out of a curve, and suddenly there they were ꟷ Africa’s most pursued wild animal: rhino. And we’d hardly entered the gates of Hlane Royal National Park! We were also the only two cars on the road, in spite of the line of Dutch and Italian tourists at the entrance.

It’s impossible to be blasé in the company of creatures who’ve existed for tens of millions of years. Before us stood two white rhino, their sharp-honed horns mercifully intact, as they stared balefully at us through myopic eyes. It’s a wonder, too, that we were watching them in Swaziland.

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