Kruger National Park is 65km by 350km, we enter through the Southern gate Malelane and have a long drive ahead of us to get to our camp site as the speed limit is a strict 50kpm on the tarmac roads of the park, lower on gravel roads. We assume all of the wildlife is on the dirt track roads so don't have too much hope on the tarmac roads, but over the 3 days it turns out to be the opposite! First we pass some zebra, wildebeast and antelopes, mainly impala. Then as all the cars in front turn off to one of the southern camp sites, I stop the van speechless. A leopard is crossing the tarmac road in front of me! It sits on the edge off the road, looks at us, looks about,
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