Welcome to Kruger National Park!
I am very excited to be here in South Africa,
I was in Kruger about five six years ago now
so I feel very fortunate to be back.
Kruger has some of the highest diversity in all of Africa
so the chances of seeing the Big Five and more are very great.
I just arrived and already I see a swimming elephant.
He's quite cheeky and has been chasing birds and throwing sticks
and splashing around in the water, so it's been quite entertaining already.
The term the Big Five was originally coined by Big Game Hunters
and referred to the five most difficult and dangerous animals in Africa to hunt.
Today with wildlife populations being severely threatened
we would hunt the same Big Five,
but of course with camera and lens in hand and not a rifle.
Now having seen the great, yet slightly grumpy African elephant
we will continue our search for the remaining four.
So this is my campsite for the evening.
One of the really nice things about Kruger
is you can drive your own car in the park and find your own campsite.
Which makes it really affordable for everybody.
You can just pull up, they have campsites
they are electric wired around so no animals get in.
You can BBQ, they've got laundromats, they've got toilets
the whole nine yards.
So it's really set up really good for independent travelers.
The word huge does not really give credit to the immense size of Kruger National Park.
With more than two million acres,
the park is about the same size as the country of Israel.
Right on this rock pile over in the distance is a leopard
which I'm super stoked about, because it's my first leopard ever.
And I even spotted it myself.
She's the color of the rocks and she's quite far off and she's not looking at me.
Let's see if she gets up and I get a good shot.
We had been on quite a few safaris in both South Africa and Tanzania
but we never managed to spot all the Big Five.
The leopard had always remained elusive, which had landed it on the top of our wish list
and made this encounter even more special.
Kruger National Park has an exceptional variety of species,
There are an impressive 147 different mammals and more than 500 bird species.
Prior to the park being declared a national reserve in 1884,
the wild game had almost been wiped out by hunters.
Today it is thriving, but poaching still remains a major concern.
Get ready for a lot of driving, if you're headed to Kruger National Park.
The camps that are the furthest from each other can take a full day to reach
or a lot longer when taking the many exciting stops into account.
The African Buffalo are prevalent throughout the park
and would be another of the Big Five to check off our list.
We're on a back dirt road and I spotted a lion and nobody else is around
so that's kind of amazing.
She's in the sun and it's midday which was a little strange behavior
and then finally I just realized there's another lion under the trees in the distance.
I can't really see her but she's under the bushes and some thicket.
But pretty amazing spot, she's probably 50 to 100 feet away from me
and right in the sun, good lighting
and I'm just gonna camp out here for a bit and see what happens.
With the lion in the bag as the fourth member of the Big Five
it was time to get serious about completing our list.
We had driven thousands of miles in the last week
and still had not come across the hefty white Rhino.
we were getting a little worried, as our time in the park was coming to an end.
Little did we know at that point, that we were about to luck out big time.
Not only one, but three Rhinos.
A mother and her large calf and a large male Rhino
who also wanted to get lucky it seemed.
The female Rhino was however not amused.
Eventually the mother and calf managed to get away
and the male would continue his search for another thick-skinned lady friend.
The sun is setting on my final day at Kruger National Park.
It has been absolutely incredible, so many animals
so many different sights I've never seen before.
Really sad to leave.
But yeah I feel so fortunate to have been able to come to South Africa
and see all these amazing animals.
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