When visiting a few game reserves and national parks, I have found that wildlife watching is really just wildlife spotting. You usually see an animal and then immediately afterwards, you see the animal running away.

When I visited Mkuze, I sat in one of their hides overlooking a waterhole from dawn (about 6am) till 10.30. There were very few other people, but lots of animals. And this time, I actually managed to observe the animals, as they came for a drink.

It was simply the highlight of my five weeks in South Africa: there were nyala, white rhinos, zebra herds, warthogs, a host of bird species, blue wildebeest and giraffes. None of them were aware of human presence and we could watch them interact and behave naturally - and none ran away!

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