Category: Mpumalanga

Sunset drive at Pretoriuskop, Kruger Park

9/9/2015

By Roxanne Reid
Hubby and I can drive around game reserves all day and not get tired of watching animals and their interactions. By dusk, though, the rules say we have to be back in camp. Yet our best chance of seeing creatures of the night like genet, serval, civet and porcupine is after gate-closing time. That’s why we signed up for a sunset drive at Pretoriuskop, Kruger Park.

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Camping in an ancient caravan at Kruger National Park

25/6/2015

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By Roxanne Reid
‘He says he’ll never divorce me,’ said Katrina Bosman of her husband Jan, ‘but he might murder me!’ They’d been married for 60 years and were now both in their eighties. But they weren’t letting that get in the way of a full life. We met them when they were camping in an ancient caravan at Kruger National Park’s Pretoriuskop camp.

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The hunting hornbills of Kruger National Park

3/6/2015

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By Roxanne Reid
A big thrill when you’re exploring the savanna and open grasslands of the north and north-east of southern Africa is to come upon a small family of Southern ground hornbills. It’s special because they’re classed as ‘vulnerable’ in the Red Data Book of endangered and threatened species, but also because they’re so entertaining. Case in point: the hunting hornbills of Kruger National Park.

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Satara: Big Five country in the Kruger Park

27/5/2015

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By Roxanne Reid
Any regular Krugerite can tell you the area around Satara camp is Big Five country in the Kruger Park. And sure enough, on a recent five-day stay we’d ticked them all – more than once. We’d also had a small leguaan living in a tree next to our campsite and African scops owls calling every night. These sights and sounds are just as special to us as seeing the Big Five.

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Visiting Kruger’s Maroela camp for the first time

6/5/2015

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By Roxanne Reid
Tsendze Rustic Camp near Mopani is by far my favourite campsite in the Kruger National Park. But on a recent visit, we found ourselves visiting Kruger’s Maroela camp for the first time – and we really liked it too.

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Kruger’s Sweni Hide: an antidote for Big Five Fever

12/11/2014

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By Roxanne Reid
If you’ve stayed at Kruger National Park’s Satara camp you’ll know that you can tick off the Big Five in a matter of a couple of hours in the morning and then again in the afternoon. Sometimes it’s just too much excitement. So we like to spend time at Kruger’s Sweni hide: an antidote for Big Five Fever.

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Kruger’s new restaurants: a huge improvement

20/10/2014

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By Roxanne Reid
When the Kruger National Park announced that chains like Wimpy, Cattle Baron and Mugg & Bean would soon be running some of the park’s restaurants, faithful Krugerites were predictably miffed. All that city yuppieness had no place in Kruger, they argued. But on a recent trip to Kruger I discovered that the nay-sayers got it almost completely wrong. Kruger’s new restaurants are a huge improvement.

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Kruger paradise for photographers and birders

23/9/2014

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Photo: Arno Meintjies

By Roxanne Reid
If you’ve been to the Kruger National Park but never sat for a couple of hours at Sunset Dam a few minutes' drive from Lower Sabie, you are obviously neither a birder nor a photographer.

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101 Kruger Tales: book review

27/8/2014

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By Roxanne Reid
A woman takes a dip in a croc-infested dam. An angry elephant flips a car on to its roof. A man drives hundreds of kilometres with a venomous snake at his feet. A family gets caught in rising floodwaters. A lioness opens a car door with her teeth. These are just five of the amazing stories you can read about in 101 Kruger Tales.

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Safari etiquette: how to behave on your game drives

18/6/2014

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By Roxanne Reid
There’s nothing better than being on a game drive in the bush, watching some of Africa’s beautiful wild animals. But humans behaving badly can ruin the experience for everyone. So what are the golden rules of safari etiquette that tell you how to behave on your game drives?

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