You can’t visit Africa without seeing some wild animals. So with our guests Dave Jr. & Dave Sr. in town, we made a trip to a lion park near Johannesburg.

To put a little background behind the video (and photos), I’ll share the experience our friends Ben & Anna had with Pastor Vincent last December. While they were admiring a beautiful white male lion stretching against a tree, remarking how much like a harmless kitty cat it was acting, it suddenly lept onto the driver’s side window, shaking the van from side to side, then attacked again on the rear window. As all the passengers were yelling at Vincent to drive off, he got excited and popped the clutch. They luckily got away without any tires bitten off or windows broken, but when they first told this story to me (and Rebecca and Allan & Annie) it was clear they were terrified by the experience and warned us to keep our windows shut should we visit. Needless to say, going into the park this week, we had high hopes of an attack. I personally was hoping to break YouTube records with the video of our own attack—but there was none. However, be sure to watch to the end for some explicit animal kingdom action…almost.

Lion Park from Nathan Clendenin on Vimeo .

It has been great having the Daves here. We’re headed out later this week to see some more wildlife at Kruger National Park. Things at Powerhouse are going really well—we’ve got some more info on all that’s going on there coming soon.

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Filed under: General by Nathan on August 24th, 2008, lion, slideshow, video, visitors