Kruger National Park

The best way to experience this untamed African bush is to get your feet on the ground and explore the magnificent region. The Kruger National Park offers an abundance of wildlife including approximately 507 bird species, 147 mammals as well as bushman rock paintings and archaeological sites like Masorini and Thulamela.

Apart from Big 5 game drives, guests can also enjoy bush walks, night drives, sleep-outs under the stars, bird-watching and off-road game drives in private areas of the Greater Kruger area. There are numerous private reserves bordering the Kruger National Park as well as private concessions within the national park. Within these private areas are safari lodges to suit all travellers and all budgets.

Some of the best game viewing areas of the Greater Kruger Park are in the private concessions that share unfenced borders with the park, so wildlife flows freely between them. In these concessions, guests are taken on exciting off-road game drives and guided walks in the bush.

The most well known of these private reserves in the Sabi Sand , where phenomenal leopard sightings happen! North of Sabi is the Timbavati Game Reserve and Klaserie Private Nature Reserves . The Manyelti Game Reserve links Sabi and Timbavati, allowing game to move freely between these havens.

Kapama Private Game Reserve and Thornybush Bush Game Reserve are fenced reserves bordering the Timbavati, with pristine bush and fantastic wildlife.

The game viewing in the Kruger National Park is phenomenal. The park is regarded as one of the best wildlife destinations in Africa; home to the Big 5 - lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino - as well as an abundance of general game, like the ever-present impala, zebra, and giraffe. A whole variety of smaller predators, feline and canine, as well as nocturnal critters, call the Kruger home.

Highlights include leopard viewing, particularly in the Sabi Sand, as well as off-road game drives in the private concessions, like the Klaserie. Impala are the most abundant antelope, with common waterbuck and grey duiker seen on a regular basis. Greater kudu, bushbuck and nyala prefer thickets and riverine forest, whilst buffalo herds graze in tall grasslands. Waterholes attract elephant, white rhino, giraffe and warthog and many other wildlife species during the dry season. The park offers a unique and unspoilt region promising a traditional African safari experience.

Walking Safaris are popular in the Greater Kruger. These range from a full walking safari in Kruger to a short walk after breakfast. Your guides will share their knowledge from animals, trees, grasses, insects and birds to the medicinal uses of plants, folklore and basic tracking and survival skills.

The longer walking safaris take guests out after breakfast for a walk and again in the afternoon. The walking is interspersed with a game drive and often guests will walk from one camp to another for a “sleep-out” in rustic tents. Walking safaris can be found at Africa on Foot in the Klaserie Private Nature Reserve and Rhino Post Safari camp , located in a private concession in the Kruger National Park.