Only in Africa!! 
Cape Town - If you're heading up the the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park sitting on the border between Botswana and South Africa, you better listen up.
Whatever you do - DO NOT use the ablution facilities at the Melkvlei picnic site, 50km north of Twee Rivieren, without scouting the area from your vehicle first.
Why? Because there's a pride of lions that have taken to the cool shade cast by the ablution structures on the site.
According to Corlette Wessels, who visited the Kgalagadi in December last year, the lions have made a habit of occupying the loos for quite some time now.
Photographs on SANParks' site also show a lion resting in the shade under a picnic table at the spot back in 2012 already.
On Thursday, 12 January, however, Wessels shared the video saying other visitors at the site had a close call when they visit recently.
"On this day in December," Wessels writes, "people parked at the site and got out to try to go to the toilets". But luckily, Wessels was able to warn them about the dangers lurking in the shade.
When they drove to see for themselves, this is what they stumbled upon...
It seems that the lions in the Kgalagadi have a real knack for sharing the socks off of visitors!
In May last year, Joburgers Francie Lubbe and her husband were staying in the Mabuasehube Campsites on the Botswana side of the Park when they woke to the sound of lions licking the windows of their tent!
Lubbe said it rained the night before, and the lionesses were licking the drops that had stayed behind on the canvas of their tents.
She also said that the door of the tent was wide open, and the three lionesses could have entered freely if they wanted.
Source: http://traveller24.news24.com/Explo...i-lions-make-loo-their-resting-place-20170112
Cape Town - If you're heading up the the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park sitting on the border between Botswana and South Africa, you better listen up.
Whatever you do - DO NOT use the ablution facilities at the Melkvlei picnic site, 50km north of Twee Rivieren, without scouting the area from your vehicle first.
Why? Because there's a pride of lions that have taken to the cool shade cast by the ablution structures on the site.
According to Corlette Wessels, who visited the Kgalagadi in December last year, the lions have made a habit of occupying the loos for quite some time now.
Photographs on SANParks' site also show a lion resting in the shade under a picnic table at the spot back in 2012 already.
On Thursday, 12 January, however, Wessels shared the video saying other visitors at the site had a close call when they visit recently.
"On this day in December," Wessels writes, "people parked at the site and got out to try to go to the toilets". But luckily, Wessels was able to warn them about the dangers lurking in the shade.
When they drove to see for themselves, this is what they stumbled upon...
It seems that the lions in the Kgalagadi have a real knack for sharing the socks off of visitors!
In May last year, Joburgers Francie Lubbe and her husband were staying in the Mabuasehube Campsites on the Botswana side of the Park when they woke to the sound of lions licking the windows of their tent!
Lubbe said it rained the night before, and the lionesses were licking the drops that had stayed behind on the canvas of their tents.
She also said that the door of the tent was wide open, and the three lionesses could have entered freely if they wanted.
Source: http://traveller24.news24.com/Explo...i-lions-make-loo-their-resting-place-20170112
