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Spot on Bert! Very quick too!

How about:

What is the name of the guest house at Mopani?

(Easy!!!)

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Xanatseni guest house. Sounds pretty cool, too, with the separate sleeping cottages, almost like a little private camp within the larger camp

Spot on Arks!

This guest house is lovely, with the units, viewing deck + bar and kitchen/lounge built around a central campfire area. The viewing deck and bar has a lovely view of the dam.

Well worth a visit, especially if you are in a large group. Ideal for something like a forum meet (hint, hint ).

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Hi Everyone

And now for a very obscure KNP quiz. Here you have to know the ranger areas (called sections) very well. There are only three ranger sections in the whole KNP that stretch right across the park from the KNP's western boundary to the KNP's eastern boundary.

Name them.

Just so that you know, there are 22 ranger sections that divide the park. Many are based at a camp or a gate and are named after that camp or gate but this isn't the case at all of them. In fact, some are named after the original farms and some get their names from local features like rivers and eco systems.

I will check this thread on Tuesday August 14 to see if anyone has nailed it.

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Pafuri, Houtboschrand and Tshokwane

Spot on Senyetse! Well done.
No other guesses? I guess it was too obscure ...

Back to your question on the most recent accommodation to be built on stilts, I'd say Sable Dam.

Otherwise Tsendze hide, if one considers that Sable Dam was not quite finished at that time??

Are you sure Mopane is "bigger" than Berg en Dal?

(If you're so clever, answer my latest "Gugglepruffe" quiz!")

(Just joking. Great questions, KNPSPM!)

Hi Richprins

Nope, not Sable Dam. No one is getting this one, even although it is a rather old question and time has nulified the answer that I had in mind when the actual post was made. So I guess I can give the answer now ...

On the Rhino Walking Safaris Concession, there is a beautiful fly camp called "Sleep Outs" which, at the time of the first post, was the newest tourism accommodation to be built on stilts. It is a deck built about 10 metres up with tents to sleep in. It is stunning, check out the webpage link (go to Kruger, then "Luxury Lodges" then Rhino Walking Safaris).

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Hi Richprins

Here is the list according to bed nights:
* Skukuza - 636
* Mopani - 506
* Satara - 440
* Letaba - 378
* Pretoriuskop - 365
* Berg en Dal - 359

The "Big 3" are definitely Skukuza, Mopani and Satara (and we haven't even added the satellite camps eg Boulders, Roodewal nor sleep out facilities eg Shipandani nor the new Tsendze yet).

I will see if I can find out the area in square metres of each of the camps.

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