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But the highlight of the highlights came among the “kopjes” Jody leaned further out and the lioness opened her eyes. She
of southeast Serengeti. A “kopje” (a Dutch/Afrikaans word stared at Jody, and Jody stared back. They stayed locked in that
meaning “little head”) is an outcrop of ancient granite that gaze for several minutes, until finally Jody looked away. “It was
sticks abruptly up out of the savannah. Kopjes are home to like she looked into my soul!”
some unique African reptile species and are good vantage
points for predators. Love,
John and Jody
After leaving our tented camp one morning we drove into a
kopje complex and straight into the middle of a lion pride. We
stopped by a house-sized boulder, leaned out of our popped
roof and slowly turned 360, spotting lions all around us. We
counted 11 males and females. All were lounging, sleeping or
dozing, oblivious to our vehicle and us, looking like giant ver-
sions of our house cats. Right outside our truck lay a lioness. A cheetah on the hunt in the Serengeti
plains; a lady lion looks us over in the
“kopje” region of the Serengeti.

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