An African Adventure

old, they will be released into the game park which is about 80,000 hectares.” These were the words of Faria, the lion minder before I approached the lions – Simba, Nelli, Luba, and Shingu – at the Mukuni Big 5 Safaris, Livingstone, Zambia.

turned her head and tried to snap at my loving hand, I was to distract her by offering the stick! I paid good money to massage the little squirt! [I did think of opening a massage parlour for exotic animals!] Lions and lionesses like their belly rubbed firmly. Nelli had her leg up in the air from the time she settled down. I could hear her purr like a cat.

I did feel a bit like Tarzan. The stick was insurance. If she