Kruger National Park

I had an absolutely fantastic time when I went to Kruger National Park (and to South Africa in general). This isn't going to be a particularly succinct review because I want to write about my experience in SA as a whole in case it's useful / interesting for anyone who is planning on going, and also because I think that it puts the trip to Kruger in context. Hopefully if you don't want to read the whole review you can skip to the bits which are relevant for you. I should also point out that there are obviously hundreds of facts that I could give about the square footage, the history of the park etc, but this is better googled as I want to focus on my personal ...  Read the complete review

During the best experience of my life in Africa last year, I was lucky enough to visit the Kruger National Park. I spent a day there from sunrise until sunset and I got to see such a wide array of plant and animal species. The park is enormous but it is well laid out. There are routes that you can follow which are well sign posted. There are also many places to stop on the way around where you can not only get refreshments but there is information on where the animal sightings have been in the park that day. This is great as it helps you to target the parts of the park where you are more likely to see certain types of animal. The only drawbacks to the park are that ...  Read the complete review

I have visited South Africa a number of times and stayed at several Game Reserves around the country. A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to visit the Kruger National Park as well. Kruger is the largest game reserve in South Africa (and I think in most other African countries too) at a massive 18,989 square km. It was also recently extended through cooperation with the Mozambique authorities. And in this case size really does matter. For one thing the pure amount of land that the park covers means that there are many different types of environment covered within the same park, from scrub and bushveld through to sandveld and forest. This means that you ...  Read the complete review

Just about everybody has heard of the Kruger National Park in South Africa, if not, have a look at this webpage: http://www.ecoafrica.com/krugerpark Kruger is a vast and expansive game park and has a large variety of fauna and flora. At night hearing the night life in the camps is an experience never to be missed. Shining a torch along the fence at night reveals a lot of nocturnal life. The large number camps make it easy to spend days moving through the park form camp to camp. There are no hand reared animals in Kruger as some people might think as this is a national park, all the animals are wild and dangerous so getting out of your car is ...  Read the complete review

A short summary Nikki and I went on a trip to Johannesburg in South Africa in the period December 13th to December 31st 2004. The main goal for our trip was to see Nikki’s family and friends but we also got a chance to take a look at places like Apartheid museum, Constitution Hill, Soweto, the theme park Gold Reef City, Cradle of Humankind, South African National Museum of Military History etc. But we also got to go on a wonderful safari at Djuma Game Reserve located in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve near the Kruger Park and this is what this trip report will be all about :-) Get in touch if you have any questions or comments and I’ll do my best to answer. If you would ...  Read the complete review