· 20th July Seth was here early to pick us up and take us out for tracking rhinos on foot so when we went out we saw tracks on the road from the jeep while driving we followed the fresh tracks and found three rhinos very close from where we were but just a little hidden by the bushes so Seth got down and asked us to follow him without making any noise at all so we followed him and reached as close as 25 feet from the rhinos as the wind was in our favour, there were three white rhinos two adults and a young one we had a good look at them before they sensed us and moved off. We went ahead in the jeep and looked for some more tracks and soon we found fresh tracks of rhinos going into the bushes, Seth got down and asked us to follow the tracks he told us that he will help us where ever we went wrong so myself and hada set out to follow rhino tracks soon we got to a bush where we saw a medium sized python move quickly into the bush, Garrith was also with us and he tried to catch this snake and suddenly we saw garrith jump and when we went ahead to see what surprised him we saw a huge African rock python in the same bush sitting all curled up and still cold, this was actually the female python which is generally bigger than the male it was atleast 4 or 5 meters long and very thick we got some pictures of her and then we moved on again to look for the rhinos. The bush was getting thicker and there were many thorny trees in our way but we were still getting fresh tracks of rhinos with Seth’s help but then for a few meters we did not get any tracks till I found one in the thickets as I told everyone about this track and as I looked up I saw the rhinos just in front of us about 50 yards away which garrith had spotted just seconds before I saw. It was very exciting to be able to find the rhinos by tracking them here we saw 4 white rhinos, we tried to get closer to them but they moved away as they heard us coming their way though we did manage some photos. After this exciting walking experience we got back to the lodge and Seth then took us out for some rifle shooting where we fired 375 magnum and as we came back he told us to pack our bags as we were moving to guest rooms in one of phinda’s finest lodge the rock lodge which is situated in the south of the jungle, at rock lodge we were welcomed and checked into the guest rooms which were magnificent and great views from the room, the courtyard overlooked the forest and in the courtyard there was a beautiful plunge pool! After settling down we went out on a game drive with Giles the head ranger of the lodge and Craig who is a trainee ranger our expectation was to see cheetahs and we did see cheetahs that too a mother with three cubs on a zebra foal kill, it was just wonderful to see the cats with the teary eyes write in front of us and we took a lot of photos. On the way back i used the spotlight and this time we saw a spotted hyena! As we got back to the lodge we met graham he was there to join us for dinner, so we chatted with graham till late night and spoke to him on various topics.