By Ronel van Zyl

We have been living in the United Kingdom since 2007 and have not been back to South Africa for seven years. It was wonderful to be back in the Pilanesberg. This photo was taken during the first three hours in the bush on a Tuesday morning. We had breakfast at the Pilanesberg Centre every day and had a wonderful time viewing the animals at the water hole and salt lick. It is still a paradise close to Johannesburg. The roads were just in a very poor condition and some roads were even closed. Hope that will improve. 

No place like the African bush!

“You have to understand—there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the hand of God. You watch the slow lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heat, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.” Jodi Picoult (American author)

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Photography: Ronel van Zyl