Blogs from Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga , South Africa, Africa - page 11

Africa » South Africa » Mpumalanga » Kruger National Park April 22nd 2013

...Animals Extraordinaire! We just spent 10 glorious days in the bush (well, fairly civilized camps that are fenced in areas with a store, cafeteria, etc, but we only showered once!) in our little green tent. We were even joined by a pumba outside our tent on our last night....a momma, poppa and baby must have liked our patch of grass. We were less keen to see a hyena outside our tent the night before. Thankfully the hyena, unlike our pumba, was on the other side of the fence, but still! I will let the pictures speak for themselves - it was very hard to narrow down our choices. We loved every minute of it, and were totally mesmerized about how little the animals cared about our vehicle. These are WILD animals....it was phenomenal. Our typical day ... read more

Days 10-14: Learning about South African history, surviving storms in Hazyview and more game spotting at Kruger NP

Africa » South Africa » Mpumalanga » Kruger National Park February 13th 2013

alex and simons african adventures

We enjoyed a later start to the morning today with an 8.30am pick-up time for our day tour covering the Soweto township, the Apartheid Museum and Johannesburg/Joburg. The mini-van was full with many newcomers to our travel group joining us. We had a long drive from our campsite in towards Joburg. We saw where they were mining for gold, which when it was discovered in 1886 Joburg suddenly became a very popular place, especially with the British. We stopped in front of the 2010 World Cup Stadium, where the Spanish team defeated the Dutch in the final. The African Cup of Nations final is being played there tonight (10thFeb) between Nigeria and Burkino Faso. We will be watching this with our Kenyan bus driver Josh who loves his football. Our next stop was the Soweto township, ... read more

Camping In Kruger

Africa » South Africa » Mpumalanga » Kruger National Park November 30th 2012

Supper at Crocodile Bridge

AndyandCaroline

We arrived at Crocodile Bridge late morning and set up camp just before Aaron and Carrie arrived from Jo'burg for a few days camping with us. The weather was perfect, hot but not unbearable and a lot of the time overcast which made for good game viewing. On our first morning drive we saw the big 5. Plenty of elephant of course, several white rhino and a herd of about 200 buffalo which were crossing the road in front of us, at their own leisurely pace of course. We saw 2 lionesses walking down the road and then a leopard just resting on a rock quite close to the road so we could get a good view of it. The following day we saw a lioness and her 5 cubs right on the road, but Aaron ... read more

Oct. 14 Kruger National Park

Africa » South Africa » Mpumalanga » Kruger National Park October 14th 2012

Zebra

Dianne and Jeffs African Adventure

Day 7 We went on an all day private safari and "saw them all"....up front and personal as in on or beside the road: giraffes, baboons, lion and lioness at a kill, zebras, Cape buffalo,warthogs,elephants ,a leopard, hippos, crocs,vultures, storks and so many other birds, an iguana...what a day! That night we stayed at a safari lodge....gorgeous with drinks and dinner around the pool and all cottages set in the African bush ... read more

October 13

Africa » South Africa » Mpumalanga » Kruger National Park October 13th 2012

Entering Kruger Nat. Park

Dianne and Jeffs African Adventure

Day 6 Finally underway! With a few hours delay, we were off to Krueger. Area towards Krueger is gorgeous with steep rolling hills with huge purple flowering jacaranda trees.Bit of a disconnect as we approached Krueger, shopping centre and there in the river next to the Toys R Us and KFC store are hippos swimming! Just inside Kruger Park, our first animal sighting...a rhino! Then to the lovely campsite and setting up tents etc...all went ell, then coals on the ground and kababs for dinner...then to bed with the "whoops" of hyenas and snorting of lions near our camp nice start to our adventure!... read more

Singita Lebombo

Africa » South Africa » Mpumalanga » Kruger National Park September 20th 2012

Singita enterence

SonsArt

One of the toughest thing in planning travel for a family is to take them to a place when you have never been, arrange travel, hotels, restaurants and workout the last details and make it so that it wows everyone’s, meet all the expectations are met and arrange everything remotely. That is a tall order! My son wanted us to go on a African safari!! The first place that came to my mind was Kenya/Tanzania and the Serengeti. So when I told him that ok, let's go the safari in the Serengeti he said, well no, he was thinking of Singita Lebembo. I didn't even know where Singita Lebembo was let alone which country it was in. I found out that Singita Lebembo is located in the Northern part of Kruger National Park in the Lebambo ... read more

Animalia

Africa » South Africa » Mpumalanga » Kruger National Park August 15th 2012

Best Friends

Keontor

When I was a little boy I remember the Disney movie, "The Jungle Book" came out and I wanted to watch it over and over. I collected the figurines of the major characters and played endlessly on the living room carpet with my little animals. Come to think of it, our mother always bought us a box of animal crackers as a treat every week when she did the grocery shopping. I grew up with dogs and cats. I always loved the sad and wistful tune of those nature shows on late Saturday afternoons. I am an animal lover by nature and my parents always taught us to respect these creatures. Just to add the irony, we lived in a housing project known as "The Jungle"!!! So, my inevitable safari became the fruition of so many ... read more

South Africa Part 2: Kruger! aka The Wild!

Africa » South Africa » Mpumalanga » Kruger National Park August 14th 2012

Looking out over southern Kruger

devinschultze

Hello again! This is a long one guys, so bear with me. :) Well, well left off with the climax of my trip thus far: playing with baby lions. How could things possibly get better? I had no idea until we went to Kruger National Park. The entire trip thing had just been on an upward track, each experience more exciting and wild than the next, literally. We had started with animals in just enclosures, moved up to animals in a reserve and now we would be seeing animals completely in the wild. While Kruger is mostly surrounded by a fence there is essentially no human interference with the animals there. They are not fed, they are not vaccinated or cared for; obviously they are familiar with humans since there are roads around the park for ... read more

The girls and I showing off our modeling abilities :)

.. on to Mopani

Africa » South Africa » Mpumalanga » Kruger National Park July 31st 2012

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NeilAlly

The last few days of our journey, at restful Mopani, further north in the park and quite different ito vegetation and animal sightings. saw the biggest herd ever of buffalo this morning, must have been about 1000 - not kidding! Tomorrow we've booked a bush walk, hope the ranger has a BIG gun! There are some interesting archeological sites around here, which we'll visit - just up Neil's 'ally', he has already found a stone age implement walking around the camp, just shows you .. Anyway, off for an afternoon game drive, see you all soon back in CT. x ally... read more

Blog Break

Africa » South Africa » Mpumalanga » Kruger National Park July 30th 2012

Tofor85

Geo: -23.926, 31.4209I write this now in Kruger Park. It's our third day.Today has been an awesome Safari day and we've had many great animal sightings from Elephant Herds, to a great male lion up close and personal.I'm about to head off for a night safari, and tomorrow, we head to Swaziland.I've already got near 1000 photos, and will upload some when the oppertunity comes up. I've been told it's unlikely I'll be able to access the internet for 4-5 days it seems, so then, when I can, I'll upload blogs and photos. Until then, I'm just going to have to make do enjoying myself and hand writing journals!:-)... read more

Brief history of South Africa

After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug...more history

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