Kruger National Park

I was on Honeymoon in June 2008 and we went there – its very calm and peaceful and I’d recommend it to all travellers!!

My husband and I visited the park during our honeymoon. It was really great. We stayed at a gorgeous guest lodge, Blue Jay Lodge, just a few minutes away from one of the gates. We saw 4/5 of the big five. And many other favourites such as giraffes, zebras, warthogs.

I’ve been to Kruger four times and have seen a wide variety of game, birds etc. But I never yet got to see a leopard or a cheetah.

Then on the last trip, somewhat south of Skukuza, one was encountered on the dirt road. It was a bit of a dull day but I had to get a photograph, yet the animal just kept walking along the road – away from the car – offering only a “rear end” photo opportunity.

Then when I was about to despair, the cheetah turned into the bush on my side of the car. I thought that was the end of the sighting, when the cheetah climed up on a large bolder, and with the sunlight at that very moment breaking throught the clouds and focusing on the beast, it turned towards the car – as if posing for a photo.

I’m returing to Kruger April 2008 and hope this time to capture a leopard with my lens.

we stayed in a lot of places one i remeber best was Olifant Park, in the morning we woke up to baboons eating our coffee and elephants in the creek below our bungalow, the whole trip was a learning experience and created the hate in me towards zoo’s

Don’t get out of the car… you may end up being lunch ;)