This morning we moved hotels to be nearer to the river - our new room overlooks the river. Obviously, this has nothing to do with our hairy visitor last night.
We went on a canoe trip along the river and saw 2 big crocodiles and loads of birds. Then, we left the canoes and went walking through the jungle with our guide. It was quite hard going as the trees were very thick and when we went onto the grassland areas the grasses were about 5 feet high. It was very exciting though. Especially when our guide would suddenly go 'sshhh' and make and stand very still.
I was beginning to think that we wouldn't see anything when suddenly (whilst David and the guide were having a ciggie break) a huge samba deer the size of a horse shot across the bush. This was followed by a really deep bellow and a lot of stomping. The deer had disturbed a Rhino! Also worrying was the fact that it was only about 100m away and we hadn't heard or seen it up til that point!
We followed it through the grasses until we could get a good look at it - full face on and bloody massive - about 5-6 feet tall and built like, well, a rhino. It stood there looking at us for a few seconds and then turned around and thundered into the trees. Talk about scary. And they moved really fast for such a big animal.
On the way out of the jungle David managed to spot another one, but it was scared away before I caught a glimpse. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get a photo of the rhino as I was too busy desperately checking out the trees to see which ones I could climb if it charged to get a picture. Sorry!
p.s. when we described our spidy visitor to our guide his exact words were 'ohh very bad, poisionous, very bad'. Not very comforting - I'm glad we've moved hotels.
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