SA Tourism

Itinerary

Day 1 : Soweto
Thursday 15th September 2022

Arrive at OR Tambo International Airport at 07h05.

We head further east, until, close to the Moçambique border, we turn north off the N4 highway, cross the low level bridge over the Crocodile River and enter Kruger Park at the Crocodlie Bridge Entrance Gate.
The entrance gate is just a stone’s throw from our overnight accommodation.

Day 2 : 82 kms (50 mi)
Monday 12th December 2022

We leave Croc Bridge after our one night here, and travel north-west to Skukuza – the largest camp in the Park, which is where we’ll be spending the next 3 nights.

Your trip to Skukuza will be in an Open Safari Vehicle (OSV) and you’ll be picked at 06h15.
I’ve included these vehicles for the first couple of days to get you close to Africa and your new surroundings.
The sounds and smells of the bush are more noticeable, the sightings of animals are really good and you have great opportunities for photos.

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Breakfast and lunch, when on the road, are for your own account, and will be in a restaurant or take away at a picnic site or at another camp.

You should reach Skukuza by roughly midday.

Skukuza, which is Kruger’s administrative centre, can get busy, but it is situated in one of the richest game viewing areas in the park!

Talk is that it has the highest density of Leopard in Africa!

After checking in and settling down, the afternoon is yours
We can go for an afternoon drive and see whether we can add to your animal count!

Your river-view bungalow, which looks onto the Sabie River, is air-conditioned, has an en-suite bathroom and an outdoor kitchen.

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Skukuza has a very good shop which has most things – albeit expensive, that you’d need in Kruger, as well as a couple of good restaurants.

You have a choice for dinner, which you’ll also have for the next couple of nights.
Eat in or eat out?
Dinner at a restaurant will be for your own expense, or we can have a braai (BBQ – ‘bry’) where I’ll supply the meal – traditionally meat and salads.
You provide your own drinks

This is also an option for the remaining nights in Kruger.

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Tuesday and Wednesday could both be very similar!
You have an option of a guided, open safari vehicle on both days, which if you choose, will pick you up at 06h15!

The early start is to maximise the time during the best part of the day for game viewing, as animals are at their most active.
Diurnal animals get ready to face the day and nocturnal animals, such as hyena, return to their dens after hunting during the night.

Your drives on both Tuesday and Wednesday can either be –
• an all day (10 hours) drive, or
•just a morning (6 hours) OR an afternoon drive (4 hours).

Although there’s no rush to book, these drives are in demand and we do need to make a decision ahead of time!
I would suggest ‘all day’ for both days, but you might prefer only one day, and then a mix of the above options for the second day – it all depends on how tired you’re likely to be, and how much time you want to spend game viewing!
It’s a long day in the open air!

There will be no schedule on these drives, except pickup and drop off times, and no two drives will be the same.
You could stop at waterholes, viewpoints or picnic sites.
Breakfast and lunch (both for your own account) will be in a restaurant/take away at a picnic site or at another camp.

I’d be happy to take you out on a late afternoon drive in the vicinity of Skukuza if you’d like.
This is your trip, and I’ll customise the arrangement to whatever you’d like to do.

Meals will be much like the previous days!
Eat in a restaurant or have a braai at home.

Day 5 : 92 kms (57 mi)
Thursday 15th December 2022

We say goodbye to Skukuza this morning and drive north to Satara Rest Camp.
Satara is another busy camp, and again – not without reason!
It is situated in an excellent game viewing area, on wide expanses of Savanna grassland, and is renowned for its Lion and Hyena.

There’s no rush, so we can take our time viewing.
The speed limit in Kruger is 50 kph (30 mph), but we average 25 kph (15 mph) whilst game viewing.

We’ll stop at Tshokwane – one of the most popular picnic sites in Kruger, to stretch our legs and have something to eat or drink.

Then on to Satara, which is one of the original camps, with the bulk of the accommodation set out the way camps were designed in the early days – a series of large circles all facing one another!

Your bungalow for the night faces onto the fence with Africa beyond that.
It once again has air conditioning and your own en suite bathroom.

After checking in and settling down, the afternoon is yours.
Another game drive, a swim in the pool – or whatever you choose!
Satara has a good shop as well as a couple of restaurants, and your dinner options are the same as the previous evenings – eat in, or eat out!!

Day 6 : 531 kms (330 mi)
Friday 16th December 2022

All good things come to an end, and this is our last morning in Kruger!

Today’s drive is also our longest!

I suggest we pack up and leave early to maximise the early morning hours during our drive west for 87 kms (54 mi) to Orpen Gate, where we exit Kruger.

The road we’ll be on is once again in a very rich game area and there’s an opportunity to have good sightings until we leave the park.

150 kms (93 mi) after leaving Kruger, we have a stop at the Three Rondawels Viewpoint on the Blyde River Canyon, which is the world’s largest green canyon.

After that, we drive through rural Africa on the edge of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, known for the world’s richest ore deposits and the world’s largest reserves of platinum-group metals.

Further west we join the N1 highway for a while – the main north/south Zimbabwe/Cape Town arterial route, before heading west once again, and onto Kuthaba bush Lodge.

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