Today’s Best Route features the best route to take from Paul Kruger Gate to Lower Sabie, Paul Kruger gate is a 5 hour drive from Johannesburg with an approximate distance of 450km. This is probably the main gain to to Kruger for its close proximity to Skukuza which is the central hub of Kruger. The…
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Top 5 Roads for Spotting Lions in the Kruger National Park
A lot of people enjoyed our top 5 roads for spotting cheetah in the Kruger and today we bring you a post with tips the Top 5 Roads for spotting lions in the Kruger National Park, Lions are our favorite animals to spot, especially male lions, there are an estimated 1700 Lions in the Kruger…
Leopard Attacks Woman in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
A South African woman has been badly injured due to being attacked by a leopard at Matopi 1 Camp on the Botswana side of Kgalagadi. The account of the attack was posted by the husband on 4×4 community.co.za forum: On the night of the 4th of January my wife, myself and another two friends set…
Elephant Charges Lions in the Kruger National Park
Mantimahle Males – Lions Of The Kruger
We saw the Mantimahle males for the first time in March of 2016 we were staying at Pretoriuskop and after a very unsuccessful morning we decided to head towards the S36 where we saw on Latest Sightings that the Mantimhale lions were spotted earlier that morning. We visit Kruger often and every time we visit…
7 Reasons You Should Visit the Kruger National Park
1. The Big 5 The Kruger National Park is home to the big 5, making it accessible for visitors to spot the big 5 in the wild. The term big five historically refers to the five most dangerous animals to hunt in South Africa, there are approximately 1750 lions, 1000 leopards, 13 000 elephants and…
Best Route from Numbi to Skukuza
Numbi gate is the closest gate from Johannesburg with just under 400km in distance and a travel time of 4 and a half hours. Our favourite route if entering at Numbi gate would be to travel on the H1-1 Napi Road, the H1-1 is a tar road the bush around this road is generally thick…
N’wanetsi Males – Lions of Kruger
This week featured lions are the N’wanetsi male lions The very first time we saw the N’wanetsi males was in March of 2015, we only saw two of them and we weren’t sure which lions they were at the time, but we saw them on H1-3 near the H6. In one of our previous posts…
What to Pack on Safari
So you’re going on a safari holiday for this reason we have put together a list of items to pack to make packing effortless for you. Packing will depend on the season in which you visit, so we will break it down into 2 different categories. Spring and Summer – September to March These months…
Best Route from Malelane to Skukuza
We decided to add a weekly post for the best routes for game viewing to our blog, so every week we will be discussing different routes in the Kruger Park. Today we going to start by talking about the route from Malelane Gate to Skukuza. Malelane is one of the most convenient gates to access…