Johannesburg: Nature Reserves

    Johannesburg and its surroundings have a lot of nature reserves and I went to a couple.

    We visited a place where  you could pet baby leopards, white lions, and white tigers. There was also a really big owl, baby fennec foxes and lots of snakes and reptiles. In the predators department we saw cheetah, lions, white lions, and hyena. Petting the baby leopards was really cool, their names were Luke and Leia. My dad had his glasses stolen by Leia and she would not let go. She also scratched my dad, her claws were sharp! But the animal that there was the most of were ground squirrels.

Ground Squirrels

Petting Leia 

    We also went to a place called monkeyland. At monkeyland monkeys could climb on you. But we had to watch out because some monkeys were pickpockets. Monkeyland is a place where they take monkeys that were abandoned or are in danger and keep them. The smallest monkey there was the squirrel monkey. There was a monkey that stole some tissues from my pocket. Another one peed on one of the visitors in our group!

Monkey grooming my mom

Monkey eating seeds

South Africa's nature reserves are really cool you should go if you have a chance!