The Kgalakgadi Trandfrontier Park was quite the adventure... Just getting there, we had to handle some sand tracks and we camped in a tiny San settlement called Zutshwa where we first heard what later turned out to be barking geckos! They sound exactly like to pebbles hitting each other. And the geckos hide in holes and the barking is all over the place and goes on all night! We first thought it was some kind of circada.
Then we camped a night in the middle of nowhere in the park. Since it's dry season, the animals tend to gather around the artificial waterholes they have in the park and not where we camped. The next day we planned on driving to Nossob Valley, where the waterholes are and where every so often a river appears. And on the way there the roo bar broke off. Except that they call it bok bar or bull bar in SA. It came loose at the front whilst I was starting the car so I kind of drove over it. And the front wheels were in the air. There was nothing on the road, it just happened. In the middle of nowhere, with lions around (potentially). I carefully drove back a bit and the bull bar appeared again. It was still attached to the car at the lower end. So were in a bit of trouble there. We hadn't seen a car the whole day. We were in the middle of nowhere and we couldn't go anywhere forwards because of that bull bar problem. It was dangling on the ground and you can't drive with that when you're only on a sand track where the track mainly consists of, well, the track of the for wheels of a car and a little higher bit in the middle.
Finally, we managed to tie the bull bar on to the car, so that at least it wasn't touching the ground any more. And I'm glad I took that rope!!! Still, not much ground clearance, so we drove at excrutiatingly slow speed... We were supposed to make it to the other end of the park, but at that speed, we were so glad when we reached Nossob Camp in the evening after several hours of driving and being a bit anxious about whether the rope would hold.
So that was the bull bar story.
But we also saw lions! Real ones! One was even roaring at night! And that's quite the sound to behold!
Anyway, I have to send some photos of the bull bar incident to the rental company. We're still sorting that. And we have to go get some food, because there isn't much left in my fridge and we're getting hungry....