With game drives starting at 6 am, most people would retire to bed after dinner. For those hardy souls who wanted some wild nightlife, there was a makeshift bar in the grounds and drinks would be served on the lawns.
One night a couple of musicians were playing to a small audience, with a young boy trying to entice a very reluctant group of tourists to join him in a traditional dance.
You leave the lodge in the village around six am, and enter the park while it is till dark. The sun rises around 6.30, and you will hopefully be somewhere spectacular at that stage.
Get that car out and go for a drive in the moonlight!
We were extremely lucky in that we happened to drive on a full moon night. For almost fifty kilometres, we were chasing a gigantic full moon that entirely filled our vision through the windscreen.