Kruger National Park
After my trip of 8 days in the Kruger National Park, I have to make a few observation about the park as it is today. The wild card is great!!! The food and service in the restaurants have improved. The security is still as good as ever, if you do wrong we will feed you [...]
Continue reading about A side note regarding Kruger National Park
I must be honest the early mornings got to me, we slept in late and left at about 7:30, this was to be a birding day. We saw the odd giraffe, a couple of various bucks and the obligatory elephants. We took some more sand roads along the Mozambican border towards Mopani and came back [...]
Continue reading about Day 7 – Shingwedzi area in Kruger National Park
We left Bulule Rustic Camp early and were handsomely rewarded for it. Another skirmish, this time between a African Fish Eagle and a couple of Egyptian Geese, to my utter surprise the geese won. That’s also the day I discovered that I had forgotten to push my ISO settings to 400 for higher speeds in [...]
Continue reading about Day 6 – Olifant via Mopani to Shingwedzi in Kruger National Park
We stayed in the Oliphant / Letaba region as we were to go back to Balule Rustic Camp, it was another hot day in the bush paradise. We decided to go back to Letaba the “long way around” the trip took us on the sand roads between the 2 (S92, S93, S44, S46, S47, H9, [...]
Continue reading about Day 5 – Kruger Park Central, Oliphant.
We started our day with a 3 hour boat ride on the Olifant River followed by our entry into the Kruger National Park, also known as the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. I have never been a great lover of boats, yeah I get sea sick, but a “boat” safari can be very rewarding in more [...]
Continue reading about Day 4 – Phalaborwa – Olifant Camp in Kruger National Park
As we prepare for the trip and do the last preparations it occurs to me that 11 days took 15 days to prepare… Let me give you the itinerary: Day 1 – Blyde River Canyon (Highveld) Route: Johannesburg – Lydenburg –Sabie – Graskop – Blyde River Canyon (Highveld) Visits: Long Tom Pass, Mac Mac Waterfall [...]
