Private game reserves are very common in South Africa, and they are often located so close to national parks as to be almost indistinguishable, even though separated by fencing. Being smaller, they generally offer an easier game viewing experience, considering that touring the whole...
Established as early as 1898, the Kruger holds several records - it was South Africa's first national park, and it's the country's biggest (as well as one of the continent's largest). At 350 km long and 67 km wide, it really is vast. Its...
The moment we had all been waiting for has arrived at last. We are right on the doorstep of world-renowned Kruger, South Africa's largest and best known nature reserve. As if that were not enough, the area also offers some of the country's most...
We enter Mpumalanga province, one of the nine South Africa is subdivided into (at the end of our journey we will have visited all but the North West province). We have reached sufficiently far to the North as to have entered the sub-tropical zone,...
Today it's back to the gravel, for our tractors. The dirt road winds its way through rounded hills and green pastures where cow herds graze peacefully. It feels almost like being back in Europe, and maybe that's why a small German community sprung up around...
Out of Saint Lucia, we head North away from the coastal plain, once again crossing the mountains to climb into the interior plateau, bound for the Kruger park....
The iSimangaliso park stretches from the village of Saint Lucia, to the south, up to the Mozambique border, to the North. It's vast and outstandingky rich in biodiversity, as we could witness during our safari in the reserve, yesterday....
About 300 km North East of Durban along the Indian Ocean shore, Saint Lucia is a small seaside resort which is very popular in South Africa, and quite understandably so. The tropical vegetation, the flowers and the relaxed atmosphere lend it an almost Caribbean flair,...
Making an early start is never nice, granted, but today's is extra tough: wake up call at 5.30 and leave by 6 without even the comfort of a cup of coffee (too early for breakfast). It's still dark and the dim streetlights, always weak in...
We dash in and out of Petermaritzburg, the former capital of the short-lived Boer republic of Natalia, later incorporated into the South African Union in 1910 under the name of KwaZulu -Natal....