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I would like to raise a new exciting topic for discussion.

I am sure most of us think that KNP is great; and it’s very difficult to single out a specific spot as one’s favourite. But… if you had to stick out your neck and pick one spot/place/road/camp/ (where ever it may be in KNP, no matter how strange or even cliché,) where would it be?

Pffft... That is a very difficult one, but after tossing aside the spectacular views of Olifants viewing deck, Olifants lookout, Crooks Corner, Klopperfontein, Kanniedood, and many more I think I'll go for Tshanga lookout. (Near Bateleur.)
Simply gorgeous....

For sentimental reasons Nhkulu will always be my favorite spot.
For many years we went to KNP as a family and it was always tradition that Dad would make the breakfast at Nhkulu and serve the ladies. Four years ago, just two weeks before our planned trip to KNP, my husband passed away. Two weeks later the children and I were at Nhkulu, the boys made the breakfast and we scattered his ashes there. Some may think that this would then be a sad place, but instead it is a place with a lot of happy memories and brings peace to my soul. Our lives have moved on, but we always stop and have a breakfast at Nhkulu and enjoy those memories, (and even the Vervet monkeys know to leave us in peace)

Beautiful Nkulu

Scattered my dads ashes in Pretoriuskop last year

Beautiful guys!
I think it's incredible how many people wish to have their ashes scattered in the KNP- my grandfathers ashes are scattered near Orpen dam!

Without saying anywhere in Kruger, if I must choose it would have to be Olifants camp viewing deck and Lake Panic, neck and neck but for different reasons.

Pafuri

I think so too, in particular the drive from the picnic site to Crooks Corner and the the Nyala Drive.

Nkumbe lookout
The only place where you can see the enormity of Kruger
And if you are lucky you only hear birds and the wind

Gosh, how does one choose...Kruger is my favourite place!

But to stick my neck out.... I will say Sunset Dam. (Without other humans there.) There is always something going on there. Always birdlife about, impies close by, the hippos in the dam, the crocs... the baboon troop that passes by each evening on their way home to their tree. The water buck, buffs, warthogs that come to drink... The fish eagle, guinea fowl, weavers, kingfishers that all live there. Enjoying watching the sun sink into the earth while parked there of an evening. Ah, a special place indeed.

What about Malelane Gate ??

The sights the sounds, and the SMELL !
and you know you have come home.

Difficult - Nkumbe yes - you can see forever. Nsemani dam near Satara. Nwanetsi picnic site. Bangu waterhole near Olifants. The Crocodile river - oh yes - every inch of this paradise!!!

Its hard to single out a place but Nkumbe lookout ranks right up there with Nkhulu - love stopping and having breakfast there.
To just sit and take in that expanse of land below you from Nkumbe is awesome- it really is breathtaking.

Special places in Kruger...

In the South, it would be Lake Panic's stillness at dawn and a loop in the Salitje road that forms a small forest with a view over the Sabie river. Mlondozi's vantage point, breeze and my first bush brekkie made by my sister in my initiation years...

Central would be Bobbejaankrans for high tea, Sweni bird hide and Gudzani dam especially when summer thunder dances on it's surface and I have my sister beside me.

Northern region, the bridge on the Olifant's river, lunch on the veranda at Letaba and brunch at Babala (just not under a tree where the birds put icing on everything...)

Watch this space for the far far north....

I have many favourite spots but my favourite road for various reasons is the old shingwedzi main road. From Mopani via Shilowa and then slowly along the Kanniedood dam into shingwedzi. It offers everything from big game mopani veld to the utter wilderness of Shilowa, that sense of really being alone to the beauty and expectancy of the Kanniedood dam. We always see something wonderful or at least get chased by an ellie but its always worthwhile - its nice in the reverse direction too