Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park Northern Cape

... and to control development in the area. The two parks were officially combined in 1999 and on 12 May 2000 the new Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (now at it new size of 9 million acres) was formally opened by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and ...

... and email - and then we head off further north in the truck. We drive tonight to Twee Rivieren camp in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (between SA, Namibia and Botswana) and start 2 days of game drives!!!! With the weather apart, which we're all ...

... of game viewing in the Kalahari! And it was absolutely amazing!! I'm on such a high!!! We drove to the Twee Rivieren camp in the Kgalagadi park, and set up camp. We had a good drive, so managed to get there pretty early - it was nice to be able to ...

... we know the temperature will drop soon, more clothes please! We left camp just after 10am and began the drive through the park. Basically you drive along the dry riverbeds and occasionally through the dunes to get from one river to another. There seemed ...

... kettle - not half full of water, but ice! I was wearing just about all my clothes and was not happy at all! This is Africa, not the Arctic, well thats what I thought anyway! We eventually left the camp at about 10 o'clock - we all had to defrost first! ...

... . Our plan (well we don't really have a plan), our decision after the 4th pint, was to head into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and hunt down some wild game. We'd heard great things about the park and decided this would be the perfect place ...

Leaving Windhoek we decided to try and get across the border and into the Park which is in South Africa at Unions End. It was a very long drive on gravel roads and it seemed that unfortunately that gate was shut so we had to head further South and enter ...

During our travels in South Africa, we have heard whisper of a legend, of a place where a hot dusty wind blows across an unspoilt Savannah and huge black manned lions roam across the plains. Where there are no borders, no fences and no roads. We were ...

... naar het avontuur! Het laatste hoekje van Zuid Afrika dat we nog niet met een bezoekje hadden vereerd, lag het Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in de Noordkaap, tussen Namibie en Botswana, op ons te wachten. Omdat het park ongeveer 850 kilometer van Bloem ...