SANParks Blog

My first Pangolin encounter happened on the morning of the 2nd of November 2009 conducting a Metsi Metsi trail. We had a group consisting of two French, two German and two South African guests. Myself and Phillip Gumede, my trusted trail colleague and assistant, started the first morning walking from our camp heading north towards [...]

Our Wilderness Adventure trails allow our more adventurous guests up-close and personal encounters within the Kruger Park by exploring the unspoiled wilderness on foot. We have asked Steven Oosthuizen, the Olifants trail ranger to share some of his exhilarating stories from the trail… We hope to provide you with regular insights into his everyday life and [...]

Dear all, sorry to be sooooo late.  I said I will be late with posting but …. I wrote this report on Monday but it is only posting this today Thursday. Well Jobourg syndrome , no time for anytHing. Here it goes: I was at work today and now still recovering from lack of sleep. [...]

  Good day. It is Thursday now. I decided to combine it with Wednesday, as it was hardly anything to post for Wednesday. Yesterday was a miserable, hazy, hot day and sightings were the same. We drove to our favorite Afsaal and back. Unfortunately food was not ready but we managed to get a nice [...]

  Good day. Huh… it was one of those days.  Left camp at 5:30 and decided to do S114 , S23 and back via H4. And it was fabulous. You will see from the pictures. We were the only car on S23. This lioness and her cub were in the middle of the road. Just [...]

Thank you for the greetings. Yes I think it is the big trucks. We have seen them and their driving is not gentle… they can’t stop if something jumps in front of them. We have also seen speeding taxies. We are comfortably settled at Skukuza.  I never liked it, as it is so big and [...]

It was hard to get up at 4:30. It was even harder when we realized it was raining.  Soft, drizzling rain. We were to drive from CB to Skukuza. H4 is so famous road and we have miserable drizzling rain. Even that is better than being in JHB (and at work). And the first thing [...]

Good evening! It is Monday, the 20th of February at 19:00 o’clock. We arrived on Friday the 17th, nearly as promised. We are staying only for one week and Dom is not with us. It sleeps in its storage, still waiting for the right time to come. Hopefully it will be between the 2nd and [...]

I have just left Addo, but my second last night was spent at the highly recommended Narina Bush Camp in the southern part of the Zuurberg Mountains. It’s a small tented camp alongside a river deep in a kloof. It was only me and intern ranger Mfuneko Fezi, and we sat round the fire listening [...]

The last two days have been busy! Yesterday I spent the day in the Woody Cape section of Addo Elephant National Park, and it’s another world. The scenery changes completely. Instead of the sub tropical thicket which characterizes the main section of Addo where most of the wildlife is, Woody Cape comprises dense evergreen coastal [...]