One night while having drinks around the fire, a couple of girls were telling me about having went to this place (Cango Wildlife Ranch) where they saw lions and pet cheetah's. I was getting very excited as I hadn't seen a lion, even in Zimbabwe on safari, and it sounded like it was close by. Then the girl telling me about the cheetah thing said they even got a certificate, this is when it dawned on me that they'd basically been at a petting zoo. :)
It was on the way though so we still stopped, and it wasn't "really" a petting zoo, at least not all of it. :) The cheetah's are wild and you sign your life away before walking in to pet one, which I did, and they had a croc they claimed had killed 12 people in nigeria or something before they caught him. They had a couple of lions and tigers and wild dogs and a hippo. We touched a hippo we could reach and I must say that it was the nastiest thing I've ever felt!! It was cool and clammy and sticky and just incredibly icky. It was firm too, I didn't expect it to feel like that.
There is a snake house and there is a real petting zoo within that has goats, etc. for the kids to play with.
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At Least Do This: If you are still interested in visiting the ranch...
http://www.cango.co.za/
THE CANGO WILDLIFE RANCH
Tourist Ranch:
P.O. Box 559 ·
Oudtshoorn · 6620 ·
South Africa
Tel: (044) 272-5593 ·
Fax (044) 272-4167 ·
Intl. Dialing Code: +27 44
E-mail: cango@kingsley.co.za
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on Jun 23, 2003
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