We bring you a new installment in our Lions of Kruger segment, we focus on the “Young” Jock Males on today’s post. The young Jock lions get their name from the Jock pride and not from the Jock male lions. The young Jock males were born at the end of 2014, and they were fathered…
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Our Highlights from December 2019 Trip
On today’s post we narrow down all the highlights from our December 2019 trip Mbiri and Rockfig Lions We stayed at Tamboti during our first few days, and the morning drives were pretty quiet most morning, but one of the mornings when we had lost all hope we found two lions sleeping in the road…
Welcome Back, We Reminisce on Our 2019 Top Sightings
Well welcome back and happy 2020, we have just come back from a blissful three week in the Kruger National Park and we are definitely feeling recharged and inspired. We are excited for all the new content which we have planned for the upcoming weeks. We just want to reminisce on all our favorite sightings…
Insight on Kiwis Abroad 7 Months Stay at the Kruger National Parki
We are so thrilled today because we have Mark Roxburgh from Kiwis Abroad as a guest on the blog today, Mark and his wife Lindy visited the Kruger National Park for SEVEN months in 2018 and he is here to shed some light on their experience. In 2018 we started noticing the #kiwis_abroad hashtag on…
The Lubyelubye pride males Defend Their Territory
We are excited to have a guest on the blog for today’s post, Leigh-Ann Aingworth, she was recently at the Kruger and she is here to share an incredible sighting from her trip. Leigh-Ann is a part-time photographer, wildlife being her passion. She is from Durban and since Kruger is around 700km away she makes…
Booking Accommodation for the Kruger National Park
So you have decided to visit the Kruger National Park, but when you tried to find accommodation on Google a whole a lot of options came up and you didn’t know where to start, don’t worry this post will help you with the booking process. So the first thing you should know is that the…
Taxi Driver Hits Giraffe Causing Massive Accident in the Kruger National Park
SANParks reported on their Facebook page early on that a taxi driver hit a giraffe in while driving in the Kruger National Park making the giraffe fall on top of another car, and it seemed that the visitors in the car were severely injured, A visitor had first posted about the accident asking for a…
Tips to Know Before Visiting the Kruger National Park
We are frequent Kruger visitors so we compiled this list to help first-time visitors, we hope this list comes in handy even for someone who has visited the park before. Pack light, even in winter Kruger is warm so don’t bother packing winter clothes only, pack one warm jacket and the rest should be your…
Lions Enjoying a Round of Golf
Lions were spotted on the Skukuza Golf Course yesterday morning, and they were in the same spot this morning. The Skukuza Golf Club Facebook page upload the pictures yesterday “Had 8 lion enjoying the shade on the 5th teebox this morning, seems like the lions know it’s going to be in the high 40’s today”…
The Ugly 5 and The Small 5 of Africa
If you didn’t know the big 5 consists of lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo and you might be wondering how they got grouped together while animals like hippos and wild dogs were left out, well the big five according to hunters were the hardest to hunt, making them the most dangerous in the bush….