South Africa - Kruger National Park

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November 13th 2010

Published: November 17th 2010

One of our main purposes for visiting Africa was to see the wildlife. Kruger National Park (KNP) seemed to be the perfect destination. After Stellenbosch we headed back to Cape Town airport to catch a flight to Joburg. We did not intend to stay in Joburg but what we did not realize was that it would be a 6 hour drive just to get to the gates of KNP! It would take another hour within the park for u... Read Full Entry

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Herd of elephants

Steenbok

What a pose.

Rhino

We ran across this one late in the evening at a waterhole. He did not even look up at us.

Buffalo herd

I counted over 200 buffaloes.

Buffalo herd

Lion at night

We came back at night to the water hole to find this pride. Three adult males and 5 females.

Roan antelope

This is the largest antelope in SA. This one was looking with great interest at a resting pride of lions.

Roan antelope

Lioness with eye injury

This is what the roan antelope was keeping an eye on.

Common dwarf mongooses

Although they are small they still take on snakes.

Disinterested elephant

So close it could have reached me with its trunk.

Elephant hide

Elephant eyes

Hyenas

Sunning themselves on the road.

Hyenas

I heard them laugh. A very funny sound.

Hyenas

17th November 2010

Rindi
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WOW
Ok now I definitely want to go to Africa

17th November 2010

Dan Bell
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Being Lunch
Amazing place! That was the first place I ever felt like I was on the menu. We heard a story there about a group of eight Africans who were walking south through Krueger to Jo'burg to find work. They all ran up a tree to save themselves from passing lions. One by one, as the lions got hungry, they would climb the tree, pull one person down, and eat them. While they were eating the seventh one, the eight person ran away. Apparently, lions are lazy, so you can walk right by them when they have a kill. Only one needed to die, and the other seven could have walked away. But they just didn't know. The moral of the story, if you don't have a gun, is to be the highest person in the tree, and to walk away as life eats your friends.

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