Crocodile Kruger Safari Lodge Malelane

... San) were present in this area.All these people and the European explorers and settlers are part of the park's history.

Today this park guards a prodigious diversity of wild life and plants for their own sake as well as for all the people who get great joy from seeing these sights.

About 1845 Italian ...

... some bat boxes and bats were flying around that night. We also heard hyenas several times throughout the night. This too like Skukuza is very popular camp for weekenders at it near to one of the main entrance gates and not too far from Nelspruit and other South African towns.

This was our last stop in Kruger National Park. We had really enjoyed our stay here, had seen animals/birds we didn’t see last year. Our ...

... dust in his eye) farewell to the game parks of South Africa. We took some heart in having been dubbed 'honourary south africans' by some of the locals we met, in recognition of our time served, distance covered and numbers of visits so far! And as we boarded the plane to Hong Kong, we could at least console ourselves with thoughts of the new adventures that lay ahead, and the thought that we'd be sure to return one day....

... just so we could hang out there! We were picked up by our big yellow tour bus the next morning, bright and early. This vehicle was an absolute beast but definitely had its charm. After driving for hours through the beautiful South African landscape, we arrived at the Malalene gate to Kruger Park. The park was awesome. That evening we did a night drive and right at the start we ran into a traffic jam as other ...

Hello Everyone! I made it to South Africa! This is the final trip of my year-long sabbatical. If I could only choose one word to describe what I've seen so far... BEAUTIFUL would be the word. It is as if all of the water and lushness that flowed out of the Sahara was absorbed by South Africa and gave birth to a country with soil rich in diamonds, gold, and countless other natural resources. I now ...

I'll get to the title of this entry later. But first, our day of wildlife viewing. We left Balula early and after an hour or so entered the world famous Kruger National Park. As soon as we passed the entry gate we started spotting Impala, Kudu, Zebra and Giraffe and spent the next 7 hours driving at about 30 kph searching for the big 5 (Buffalo, Elephant, Rhino, Lion and Leopard). We stopped at a picnic area and had lunch and were surrounded by ...

... but about 4 hours into the trip there was big bang and a cloud of dust in front of us. The truck in front of us had veered into the path of an oncoming cement truck and they had collided. They were a mess, just 2 twisted its of metal. We drove past when it was safe. I saw the dead body of one of the drivers all limp and covered in cement dust. What struck me was that people just drove past (us included)... it somehow felt ...

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... of game that day including many more blue wildebeest that we'd previously seen. The highlights of today included lots of waterbuck, a common duiker and a number of tiny steenbok all very nice with their black nose and large ears with stripes inside. A couple of other things were some giraffes that got really close and a ...

So we went camping yesterday for my and Sheila's birthday at a caravan park in Levubu which is right down the street from Vuwani. It was amazing. We camped right nex t to a stream, or a lake or a pond, I don't know what to consider it. It was a body of water, and it was very relaxing. There was 10 of us that went and we braaied. There was a dance club at the caravan park, that I went to, but there were ...