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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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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”…

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….

The carcasses of four lions were found at the Rietvlei nature reserve on Friday. It is believed that the lions were killed the previous night, according to Tshwane metro spokesperson Lindela Mashigo. “The lions were last spotted roaming in the reserve the night before,” Mashigo said. “We can confirm they were found dead in the…

A aquatic biomonitoring survey was carried out in September in the Kruger and the results were troublesome because it revealed that the crocodile found between the western boundary and high-water bridge in the Olifants River are highly emancipated.  Dr Eddie Riddell, who is the manager of aquatic biodiversity in the Kruger National Park said, ‘A…

On Monday morning someone posted on SANParks inquiring why she found a baboon and her baby trapped in a cage at Tamboti rest camp, the original poster was distressed because one of the staff workers informed her that these baboons would be eliminated. This caused an uproar on social media. Not soon after the comment…