THE CHALLENGE: Find and photograph the BIG 5 in only 5 Days!!!
You’ve seen the Big Five in books and you’ve seen them on TV. But it’s time to come and see them for yourself. Even though you know that Africa and South Africa are so much more than the Big Five, the familiar images soon begin playing in your mind: lions roaring; elephants trumpeting; buffalos lurking in long grass; rhinos standing stately under a thorn tree; leopards prowling in the gathering darkness.
You’ve seen the Big Five in books and you’ve seen them on TV. But it’s time to come and see them for yourself.
THE REAL THING. IN PERSON!!!
And there’s no better place for this than the Kruger National Park, which offers the most exciting, memorable and exhilarating experience of your life – coming face to face with Africa’s Big Five.
How did these five animals – the lion, elephant, buffalo, rhinoceros and leopard – come to be called the Big Five?
It was originally a hunting term used by the so-called ‘great white hunters’ in the hunting heyday of the 19th and early 20th centuries, when professional hunters bagged as many trophies as possible in as short a time as possible.
Considered a rite of passage for seasoned travellers, everybody from American presidents to European royalty and heads of state came to Africa to shoot a large, dangerous animal.
The Big Five quickly became known as the most dangerous animals to hunt on foot, and the name stuck – although now ‘shooting’ is done through a camera lens.
With the AFRICAN BUSH EXPERIENCE COMPANY we will take you off the beaten track straight into the heart of the African wilderness in search of these magnificent creatures going the extra mile to ensure that you get to experience Africa’s big game in their natural and untouched environment.
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