KRUGER NATIONAL PARK AND ADJOINING PRIVATE RESERVES
Kruger National Park and the adjoining private game reserves including Sabi Sands and Timbavati is South Africa’s best known and most visited wildlife region. The area delivers what most visitors come to Africa to see, huge elephant herds, dozens of lions and other big cats and thousands of other animals roaming across the savannah.
With its excellent, tarred, road network and well maintained gravel tracks, Kruger is easy to get around and the wildlife relatively easy to spot. Excellent connections by both road and air also make Kruger easily accessible to visitors to South Africa and regular direct flights from Kruger Mpumalanga Airport to Mozambique means that an exciting Kruger safari and tropical beach combination is possible.
Kruger National Park and the surrounding private game reserves form one of the largest protected wildlife areas in Africa and this is soon to be expanded by the creation of a transfrontier park incorporating adjacent game reserves in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
The biodiversity in Kruger is the widest in Africa and the big five including both black and white rhino, cheetah and wild dog along along with all the other popular African wildlife species are regularly spotted on game drives.
Kruger National Park itself can get quite busy as accomodation is plentiful and access from all over South Africa quite easy. For a more authentic wildlife experience the private game reserves, where visitor numbers are limited, and the less visited Northern section of the park may be preferable. Safari Club have a number of superb lodges in all these areas where discreet luxury comes as standard and the quality of guiding is superb.
The Kruger region can be visited at any time but the best time to visit Kruger is in the dry months from May to October when water is scarce, the bush thinner and grass shorter making the wildlife easier to see and locate.
South Africa Kruger Camps