Today was really thrilling we started to learn how to lead a group of tourists and how to follow the tracks of an elephant. We walked straight out of the camp. They needed volunteers. I was the first. What an experience! After that Marc, Alex and Claudia were the trailing guides. Annette saw something moving on top of the hill. We had found the elephants! Soo cool! Than we had coffee and walked back to our camp.
A gecko, our good morning guest during the first breakfast.
Everybody had to walk lined up and silently. There are several nonverbal signs like rising the open hand (stop), a fist (freeze), a waving (come closer) , hand pointing on the shoulder (make a cirlcle around me), clap on your trousers ( I would like to say s.th.). This pic was taken later on as I was trailguiding with T.
Me doing the trailing and explaing that these is zebra dung. It looks like rusks.
T. explaining of a branch an elephant had just ripped of the tree (sign that he the ellie passed by).
An elephant took a dust bath here.
K. explaining the behaviour of elephants.
a dung beetle.
We have found the three elephants. They are quite close. We Dominik, T, and K. are standig about 50 m from the three elephants. Soo thrilling.So incredible.
Bush coffee and tea stop with many biscuits.
The cookie monsters.
In the mopane tree forest. Mopane means butterfly. That is the shape of the Mopane leaf.
We have found a warthog skull. It has probably been eaten by a leopard. The tusks can be seen.
Meeting point at the vehicle to talk about what we will do next.
The entrance of our camp. Ecotraining billboard
We are having breakfast or brunch. So nice!
Southafrican language ( Shangan) lesson. We always practice in the vehicle.
Our timetable.
Animal list: Ungulates, Digitigrades and Plantigrades (with some in African language).
T. drawing on Marcs foot explaining the difference between sole and step.