Landing in Kruger National Park was a wonderful way to start our four-month family travels.
We were greeted by elephants, giraffes and impalas on our first day, which opened our bleary, jet-lagged eyes with awe. After 3 days of self-drive safari in Skukuza and Lower Sabie we were expert spotters of the wildlife and saw hyenas, zebras, buffalos, wildebeest, warthogs, hippos, baboons, monkeys, plenty of birdlife and more giraffes and elephants (the family fave). The big cats were more elusive until we went on to Satara (“Cat Country”), and on our last evening in Kruger, we took a guided drive and hit the jackpot...
Not only did we see a black rhino as it wandered into the sunset, but when we meandered up a dirt track with our safari guide, we came across a pride of lions eating a giraffe! Then the next day we spotted a cheetah resting under a tree, all on our own - The Big 4.5*
After a week of staying in basic rest camps in Kruger, we celebrated Clementine’s 9th birthday by checking-in to the Kruger Gate Hotel. After a nerve-wracking, middle-of-nowhere, flat-tyre incident, we couldn’t have been happier to land on the soft white beds and finish the week with a little luxury.
* the Big 5 technically includes a leopard rather than a cheetah, but we figured it was close enough
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