I have never been on a Safari so I had no idea what to expect, I'm as qulaified Zookeeper so I have seen most of the animals (or the big 5 as they call them) I was under the impression that Kruger national park would be like the Seremgeti as in flat and we would drive through rough terain with the jeep, but Kruger (the park is bigger than israel) you have to stick to the dirt roads so you give the animals breathing space.
You have one game drive in the morning and one in the afternoon, you always have breakfast in the bush what was awesome since I had time to leave the other people talking to each other and I could go out with the Ranger and he was very nice and taught me the different tracking methods and what a lot of the markings means.
We enjoyed so many amazing moments, for example the first game drive we did was late in the evening and we were lucky enough to see a Leopard wo was busy marking his territory, but the most amazing experience was when we went on a bush walk, it becomes very appear ant that anybody out there becomes very fast food and there were some tense moments when we found very fresh elephant shit and even worse bull shit.
All in all the game lodge we stayed was phantastic, every place was laid out that you had a clear private few to the bush and the last evening after a shower outside I heard a loud noise of breaking leaves outside what can only mean one thing, elephant, I ran to the front and found a lonely elephant bull grassing, absolutely phanastic.
Keith since you have asked so nice I will take time out when I'm back to write you what I have found out and send you some more pics.
First pic is the part of your lodge were you can sit and relax and watch the bush for some game, I sat there for ages with my binoculars trying to find animals walking past.
Second pic is early in the morning two elephant bulls..
last pic were a pack of wild dogs (these are very rare) it was fun to watch them hunt impalas,
