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Most forumites would kill for a night like that Carrim.

Iguana in the toilet

AWC wanting to come in

Nice one
Thought it was about neighbours having a huge party

We also once had the hippo families talking non stop all nite at LS while in a tent

What an amazing night and what a good laugh you have given me. Is your wife ready after the treatment to go back yet???

A few years ago , we spent a night in Shipandani birdhide . The hippos were quite rowdy as usual , and of course , after "lights-out" came out onto dry land to graze , and could be heard heard munching away . At one time , it seems one of them had a bad itch , and rubbed against the hide until it was shaking to the point of almost falling over .
At least , this is what my SO told me next day . She did not sleep a wink !
And me ?
Never heard a thing - I slept like a baby .

Carrim, that was really funny. Your poor SO, but what a funny story.

okie, I have had a similar experience at Shipandani and met the resident hippos after dark.

And then there was my son and newly married wife who also spent a night at Shipandani . All the noises , animal movements caused them to basically " clinging " to each other , afraid that an invading army or " impi " was crossing the river/pool from Mozambique .

For us also the hippos that chatted non-stop at Lower-Sabie throughout the night and lions and hyena at Orpen who had a midnight get together that lasted to the early morning hours

I was camping at Doispane (unfenced ex-ranger post) in a thin nylon tent...... Lions decided to visit the waterhole just behind the tent during the evening, and 'talked' to each other loudly. I sent my sister an sms - she replied 'just tell them to say grace'. In the morning I replied to her....'they did.....all night!' It was amazing.

Next night we had all gone to bed when unearthly screaming snarling growling noises woke us up. Someone shone a red spotlight, and I peered through the gauze of my tent from my bed.....and looked straight at a hyena just a few metres away! 2 hyenas were having a scrap about something. They moved off a bit, and I settled back to sleep (we were told the previous night to stay in our tents and we would be safe, so I put that advice to practice....). Then I heard rustling, and one hyena moved between my car and my tent, tripping over the guy ropes as it went! After that all went quiet and I slept....

We were camping at Berg-en-Dal when one night we heard a gunshot just on the other side of the fence. If you live in SA, you immediately make a plan to hide your valuables because a robbery is about to take place. But it turned out to be a huge elephant breaking a tree in half.

I was at croc bridge 2 weeks back and the lions started their bed time stories at 21:00 and lasted for a while, it sounded like they were at the gate. Managed to find him in the morning near the hippo pools. I'm not complaining as I love that sound of lions roaring, but the wife

Yeah a lot of married men prefer the roaring of lions to the roaring of the wife...

WOW People you all had great experiances. I had an experiance where Lions and Hyeena's having a get togather at Shingwedzi Camp, and for some reason they only have a get togather when am there.

Please make sure you are there from the 2nd to the 6th Oct 2011

The loudest night in Kruger occurs when I am asleep in a tent.

Our last night at Satara on the 17th of July 2011, lots of lions!!!
Early morning of the 18th of July....lions and hyenas...later that morning we saw the lions feeding on a kill on the road from Satara to Olifants.