Lifupa Conservation Lodge (Part 6)

One evening we hired a guide to come with us to Black Rock which is a large inselberg, in Kasungu National Park.  An inselberg is an isolated hill or mountain rising abruptly from a plain. ( I have lightened all photographs)

  Climbing Black Rock was not easy for me as it was very step and there was no footholes or anything to hold on to.  However my grandchildren were wonderful with their encouragement and pulling me up at times.  They said we all had to get to the top as a family.  Of course I also was carrying my camera and binoculars and the sun was sinking fast!

My grandshildren were like mountain goats and didnt even have shoes on their feet.  WOW!  What a view where I did reach the top.  It was worthwhile although I did wonder how I was getting down again!  What I did not know until later, was that the vegetation around the inselberg is very dense and Leopard and Lion footprints had been seen in the vicinity of the rock recently! 

Daniel was the first to the top (above) and Annika second (below).  

                                        This was our lovely guide.

The whole family made it to the top.

The fading sun was spectacular. 

I had never seen such a pink sun.

This tree was at the top of the rock and did not appear to be rooted in much at all and of course just had to be climbed by Jon, Daniel and Annika.

Now doesn’t Jon just look like a leopard laying there!!!  

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