Night Terror

Although it is very rare, lion have been known to come to tents and eat humans. There was one well documented incident in Kenya where just two lions came and ate hundreds of railway workers over seeveral months.

Etosha has lots of big game including lions and panthers. Our camp was seperated from the game by both a one metre stone wall and an electric fence. This being Africa however, the electricity supply was intermitent and the tour leader teased us saying the lions would come and eat us in the night. All good fun. Until I woke up at 2.40am with a growling noise outside my tent. In my half asleep state I was pretty scared, although it was just a jackal