Hello y'all!
Day six of our trip! As you have read in the previous post we spend the night in the beautiful Sabie River Bush Lodge. It was the third day of our safari and we were desperate to see the big 5 before we were going to fly back to Amsterdam.
We had an amazing day in the park. It was a lot of driving, but it was so worth it! After half a day of driving around in the Kruger park, we ran into a rhino at a drinking spot. So beautiful and special! With the rhino we saw 4 out of the big 5 in Kruger. But we were also very anxious to see the leopard! And while we drove back to the gate, we noticed so many cars in front of us! They all stopped and we discovered why... The Leopard! There were two of them, relaxing in the shade from the burning afternoon sun.
Hi everyone,
After a short night in Olifants (the restcamp) we had the entire day to drive around in Kruger Park, I mean: we really wanted to see the big 5!
The 'big 5' animals are the lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard. During our first day in Kruger park we already saw the elephant and the lion. And today we could add the buffalo to our list. We're keen to see the leopard and rhino too, but today was not the day unfortunately.
But: we did see some other very interesting animals! We had to brake really hard for a turtle, and shortly after our meeting with him we also saw two snakes on the road (one of them was a black mamba!). It was a really good day for the safari!
After driving around for the entire day in Kruger, we left the park to spend the night in Sabie River Bush Lodge. We got a beautiful tent for the night from where we had the most amazing view. Sabie River Bush lodge is an amazing place to be, with wonderfull and very friendly staff. The restaurant is pretty amazing as well and it was just very good to spend the night in such a beautiful place.
Hi everyone,
After two nights in Hazyview and discovering the panorama route, we headed to Kruger Park. But first we had to change our rental car for another one. We drove through a pothole (a large hole in the road) during the night and hit the hole very hard: a flat tire and broken rim as a result.
We changed the ford fiesta for a toyota and drove to the Kruger gate, a 30 minute drive from Hazyview. As soon as our vehicle was checked at the gate and we payed our fee we could explore this beautiful nature reserve.
As soon as we entered the park we ran into lots and lots of antilopes. We started to take pictures like crazy but we soon discovered that the antilopes were everywhere. At a maximum speed of 50kms per hour we drove to the north of the park, where our 'rest camp' was situated. We read about Olifants (the rest camp) in the lonely planet and decided it would be our restcamp for a night.
Olifants is a beautiful restcamp next to the olifants river: a good place to spot the big 5. You can easily spot the hippos taking a morning bath in the river. You have your own little bungalow which is very simple but good enough for one night. Upon arrival at the restcamp we had an hour to unpack and to get ready for the sunset drive with a ranger.
The sunset drive took about 3 hours and we saw so many animals! And as soon as the sun set, we saw a hyena and her cubs and besides that we had three big lions walking in front of our car! Anyway: enough talking, let me show you the pictures!
