Entering Kruger National Park

After our trip to the Mozambique/South Africa boarder to renew both our visas, we decided to head home through the Kruger Park. As the gates are open & shut at certain times, we were unable to enter the Park on Monday evening. We woke early the next morning as the gate opened at 6am and we wanted to be the first ones there. When we arrived, we discovered that others had the same idea. We paid our tariffs to enter the park & off we drove. We started at the Crocodile Gate and drove first to the campsite of Lower Sabie for breakfast and a leg stretch then onto Skukuza for lunch and then we exited the Park at the Numbi Gate. What a day. It was so long, but God totally blessed us with His creation & handiwork.

One of the highlights was being able to watch a scene was having the privilege to watch a huge herd (family) of about 120 elephants walk alongside the car, then across the road to go through the reeds of the local river. What an opportunity. They walked in a huge long line, with a huge male elephant at the front and then the biggest male elephant holding up the rear. In the
middle were a few baby calves. What a sight to see, it really was just so very awesome. I felt like one of those people who work for National Geographic.

Another amazing time was also being able to see a giraffe up close. As we were driving along the road at our speed limit of 40km per hour we looked out to our right and in the bush eating
one of the top leaves of the tree was a young giraffe, it then decided to stand in the middle of the road and pose for us. It was just so awesome. We were so close we could see that his patches of
colour were different shades of brown and almost orange and that he had very long black eyelashes that every human girl would be envious of.

As it has been very dry here and winter is the not the rainy season at all. After we had lunch at the Skukuza camp site, it sad us to see that km after km was just black from being burnt in the bush fires. It means that the animals don’t have enough food and also they have to move to different parts of the park to find food.

(Photos to be added soon)