Day 01
Kruger National Park
- 08h00: Guests are met at their hotel or the airport.
- We depart from Johannesburg or Pretoria, travelling in an easterly direction towards the eastern Lowveld of Mpumalanga Province. Mountains, waterfalls, forests, old mining towns and views that appear to go on forever – that’s the incomparable eastern Lowveld, where the highveld collapses onto the hot, humid floor of Africa in a spectacular tumble of granite and greenery. At the end of it, all lies southern Africa’s great game wilderness, the Kruger National Park, where the Lowveld still howls with nature in the raw.
- Entering the Kruger after five hours of travelling, the adventure of seeing Africa’s animals in real life begins. After a while of chasing the adrenaline up, we arrive at our overnight camp, offload our luggage and continue the game spotting till the camp gates force us to enter the camp at closing time.
- Settle in, go shopping at the local shop for all its exciting souvenirs and necessities or wander around the camp fence overlooking a river or waterhole as you might be surprised what animals come down to the water for a last drink before the Kruger is folded into a dark blanket for the night.
- Take a shower and set off to the restaurant for a sumptuous buffet meal or “braaivleis” (barbeque) prepared by us around a campfire with a cold drink in hand, listening to the roar of a lion, laugh of a hyena or a jackal announcing the discovery of a half-eaten carcass.
- After a good meal and conversation, we hit the bed in a comfortable bungalow.
