Blogs from Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga , South Africa, Africa - page 29

Leaving Hazyview in the moring, we drove to Kruger National Park--our home for the next 5 nights. Kruger National Park is about the size of the Netherlands and has an abundance of wildlife, most notably all of the Big 5--Rhino, Leopard, Lion, Water Buffalo, and Elephant (why Water Buffalo made the cut and not say Hippo, Cheetah, or even Giraffe is beyond me). Upon arriving at the Paul Kruger gae in the SW of the park, we immediately saw a crocodile and water buffalo, followed by numerous chacma baboons, vervet monkeys, giraffes, elephants, blue wildebeest, zebras, and hordes of grazers (i.e. impala, steenbok, kudu, reedbuck, waterbuck, bushbuck, whatthebuck). We saw all of the afore mentioned just off the road, right outside our car. Unfortunately, seeing any predators would have to wait, as most of our ... read more

Kruger park on a vey hot day Africa » South Africa » Kruger Park By TamsinMarch 23rd 2007Tamsin Sebba Fri23rd Left early to go to Kruger Park. 6 of us managed (Dani, Paul, Molly, Jane and Trisha) to blag a truck for 9 people. This meant that when the sun came in on one side the person could move to the middle seat to avoid it. We saw giraffe, zebra, elephants, warthog, buffalo, baboons, ostrich, hippos (just poking out of the water) and of course impala (that I have decided look like Neapolitan Ice-cream as they are stripy from the side- chocolate, caramel and vanilla!) Food is being a bit hard as they keep giving the veggies fake meat but puddings of ma... read more

I have had probably the best 3 days in my life the past week. Kruger was amazing! I have been before with Moholoholo but only for a day this time we got to go for 3 days! We saw A LOT of cool animals. I have a list of most of the things we saw.Most of them we saw quite a few times too. So we saw: Impala,Zebra,Wilderbeast,Ground Hornbill,Yellow billed hornbill,Slender mongoose,Spotted thick-knee,Glossy starling,Red billed hornbill,Lilac breasted roller,Black breasted snake eagle,White creasted helmet shrike,Hippo,African harrier hawk,Southern carmine bee eater,Baboons,Grey heron,Egyption goose,White Rhino,Kudu,Grey Hornbill,Wahlberg Eagle,Crocadile,Spur-winged goose,White faced ducks.Elephants,Waterbuck.Dwarf mongoose,Giraffe,Banded mongoose Hyenas,Fish eagle,red creasted Korhaan,Swainsons spurfowl,Burchells coucal,Helmeted Guineafowl,European roller,Tawny eagle,White backed vultu... read more

So since I last updated my blog quite abit has happened. After I updated my blog last time we had to go pick up two animals from a local vet. A baby squirrel about a month old and a woodland kingfisher. Sadly the Kingfisher died. I am now looking after two baby squirrels they are doing ok except my new one has putsy fly. The Putsy fly lays its eggs in the skin and the maggot grows under your skin its gross humans can get it too. On Thursday we went to the wilderbeast pub as it was Williams birthday. The drinks were soo cheap and I drank quite abit!! We are going out again tonight to celebrate Jessicas birthday and that 3 volunteers are leaving tomorrow. As Brian is out of town (the owner of ... read more

Dear All, Firstly, thanks to mum and Debs for your comments! I havnt been online since the 5th so sorry for the delay in posting them. And happy birthday to mum! Unfortunately, my long awaited Kruger trip is now over, but it was the most amazing trip I’ve ever had. I went with Dave, his mother, and her friend. It started with a very early morning last Wednesday, we were up at 4:30 and ready for the long 5 hour drive to get to the gate. I managed to wake up upon entering the park though! The others had all been to the park numerous times and bet that the first thing we’d see would be impala, as there are many, many of these. However, the first thing we actually saw was 2 lions, and this ... read more