Adventure Afrika

Have you hugged a rhino today?

I can hear it. The thud, thud, thud coming closer…
My ears scanning,
Where is the noise coming from?
I feel a sharp sting in my bum…
They’ve got me!
My head starts spinning…
I can’t feel my feet!
Strange figures rush to me…
Herding me, sticking things in my ears, blindfolding me.
But I don’t feel hate.
I feel love.
They are here to help!

When Toyota invited us to join them on a rhino dehorning initiative, I could never have guessed what I was about to experience! Tears, dust, and more emotions than I could handle.

It was early on a Thursday morning when I arrived at Toyota South Africa’s head office in Sandton, not expecting too much of what the invitation dubbed “Toyota’s Rhino Initiative”. Soon my partner in adventure, conservation and

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