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kruger park and onward

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September 26th 2008
i met a couple of americans, carissa and liz, and we decided to visit kruger national park on the cheap. we rented a car and bought groceries, then headed to kruger. there we saw tons of elephants, ungulates, giraffes, rhinos'black and white, a huge black python, some strange birds. not to forget lions, warthogs (no they werenºt dancing but we kept joking about it), water buffalo and a hyena. we ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Mpumalanga » Kruger National Park

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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... ... read more