life in africa: From the World's View

Mokolodi Safari

An amazing day.

Today was everything we had imagined and then some. We began the day with our first site visit to Mokolodi Game Reserve where we were greeted by a wonderful man named Peter. He said that he had something we would appreciate and that he would change his clothes and return. He came back minutes later sporting a shirt that said “Bro’s before Ho’s” with Barack and Hillary’s pictures below…it made for a pretty good laugh.

Peter sat with us and discussed what we could add to the ongoing programs at Mokolodi. Mokolodi is an absolutely beautiful stretch of land that gives tours, provides camp sites, has a nature/animal education program for children, teaches sustainability etc.

After our introduction we had the opportunity to hop in a safari vehicle and ride all around the reserve. Incredible. Our first stop was called “World’s View”, from the top all you can see is miles of endless clear blue sky and the entire game reserve. Warthogs, ostriches, monkeys, horses, cheetahs, impalas, snakes, crocodiles were some of the animals we had the opportunity to see on the safari.

Tlamelo Project

You would think Mokoldi would have been the highlight of our day…but then we arrived at Old Naledi Tlamelo Food Project.

There were only a handful of kids left in the afternoon but the second we were surrounded by the children I could tell that we were all a little in love. It's an amazing sight to see these beautiful children laugh and play.