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.
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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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? By Roxanne Reid
Remember the elephant that was put down in Kruger just before New Year after it trampled a tourist's car? Well, News24 has reported on shock new video footage showing that the driver of the vehicle took an unnecessary risk, failing to react appropriately to clear signals from the elephant that they should back off. If you’re feeling sluggish about going back to work or school after a great summer holiday, unmotivated by the thought of the long stressful year ahead, you can learn something about succumbing to the joys of life from this video of lion cubs at play.
By Roxanne Reid
Buffalo steaks may be a favourite on the menu for lions, but sometimes things don’t work out as planned. At least they didn’t for one lion in the Kruger National Park recently. See what happened when a buffalo launched a counter-attack to save its friend … By Roxanne Reid John Steinbeck said about travel that you go, not so much to see but to tell afterward. I travel for both those reasons. I’m endlessly curious and love experiencing new things I couldn’t in my own back yard, but I also enjoy sharing those experiences through this blog. Here are my 7 travel highlights of 2013. By Roxanne Reid
Potholes in the road are things that can get South Africans pretty riled up. Sometimes they even withhold their taxes until something is done about them. So which is the worst-potholed stretch of road in South Africa? By Roxanne Reid
Would you fight a lion for your lunch? Of course not. What about a leopard? Would it bare teeth and claws and launch a counterattack, or just give up gracefully? Watch this video and find out. By Roxanne Reid ‘Are you the one who left a ring in the bath?’ she asked. Seriously? We’d been camping for nearly 10 weeks in four countries by then and not once had I come across anyone so pushy about ablution cleanliness. By Roxanne Reid Kruger campers really are a breed apart, rude, pushy and without much understanding of the concept of personal space. Or maybe it’s just me. |
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