On Safari With Dean from 27 October 2013

27 October 2013

We picked up guests from the Africa Moon guest house and made our way onto Nelspruit, where we changed over into one of the open safari vehicles and made our way onto Numbi Gate of the Kruger National Park.

After checking in guests enjoyed lunch and then climbed aboard the open safari vehicles for a three hour drive.

Animals seen were impala, kudu, hyena, buffalo.

After the drive, guests enjoyed dinner and then it was off to bed for a good night’s rest.

28 October 2013

On this morning it was up early and after enjoying breakfast it was out on the road to see what turned out to be a brilliant day of game viewing.

We made our way out of Nkambeni Safari Camp and got elephant and buffalo on the camp road, we then made our way down the Numbi Gate tar getting more sightings of buffalo, impala and kudu. We turned onto the Napi Road and made our way in the direction of Skukuza where we planned to have a coffee break, before continuing on with the day’s game viewing.

On Napi road, we managed to get good sightings of buffalo, elephant, leopard, waterbuck, giraffe, kudu and impala.

While on the last section of Napi Road, we got a radio call about lions on the Tshokwane tar, lying in the Sand River, so we decided to make our way there before our break in order to miss the traffic. We found the lions who had moved into a very difficult sighting area, yet we were happy as we had showed the guests the big five before our break.

It was then off to Skukuza for a well deserved break and toilet stop.

After our break, we decided to take a drive down to the camp of Lower Sabie on Elloff street and see what could be found. On this route we found good sightings of hippo, giraffe many herds of elephant crossing the road to go down to the Sabie river, a leopard on lubbe lubbe bridge, thirteen lions on the road in front of our vehicle as well as thirty five crocodiles at sunset dam.

We stopped off at Lower Sabie for lunch.

After lunch, we made our way back on Elloff street getting more good sightings of giraffe, and more herds of elephant. Nearing the end of the route near to the camp of Skukuza, we got a call about a cheetah together with her five cubs on the H3' so we decided to make a turn down there to see if we could find her.

We finally got onto the H3 and at 3.2 Km's down, we found her about eighty meters off the road.

After a great sighting we made our way back up to Napi Road in the direction of the camp as time was moving fast.

At about 1.2 Km's from klipspringer koppies, we came across another young female leopard lying next to the road, she suddenly got up, walked past the front of our vehicle and
proceeded to catch a Crested Francolin and then sit next to the road and our vehicle and eat it, after which she got up and gave the guests the best chance for photos that anybody could get.

We made our way on and got the same leopard lying sleeping next to the road that we had got earlier in the morning.

We were told that there were three more cheetah lying further up the road, so we went looking for them, only to find them in the grass lying watching us.

We went on getting more good sighting of rhino, elephant, buffalo, hyena and a nice herd of sable antelope.

We made our way onto camp getting in at 18h00.

29 October 2013

Today it was our early again for the guests final drive, while out on the drive, we had good sightings of rhino, buffalo, elephant, kudu, impala, hyena and common duiker.

We left the park at 09h00 as guests had to catch their shuttle through to Dullstroom where they were going to do some trout fishing over the next couple of days.

Guests had a good time, and were amazed at the amount and the quality of animals that they saw while on safari.

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