Kruger National Park Safari with Darby Gilbertson, Albert Tong and his wife from the 26th - 27 April 2012

We picked up Albert and his wife from the park Hyatt hotel and Darby from the City Lodge Airport, before making our way out of Johannesburg in the direction of Nelspruit. We travelled on, stopping off at Milly's Road stop for a break before continuing on. We passed through Nelspruit and on to Rockies Drift were we changed into our open safari vehicle for the duration of the safari. We drove the last couple of Kilometers to the Numbi Gate, and after check in proceedures were completed and a safety briefing given , we made our way down tpo Pretoriuskop for a lunch break, before going on a game drive, We left camp at about 13h45 and it was not long before we got our first sighting of rhino. We carried on down the Napi road, getting good sightings of elephant and more rhino. We got two messages on the radio of lion sightings, we made our way in that direction, only to find that they had already moved off. We also got a message of a leopard that was in the tree, so we decided to take a slow drive down as he had an impala kill in the tree with him. On route, we got good sightings of impala, giraffe, as well as a good number of the grazing species of anials found in the park. We turned on the Doispane road and made our way down to the tree where the leopard was, only to find that his kill was there, but he was gone. We decided to make our way down the road and come back a bit later. We found a great sighting of some rhino, and after some good time spent on this sighting and as the time was going before we had to be in the camp, we made our ay back to the leopard sighting, only to find our friend at home busy eating on his kill. We spen some good time on this sighting, and after getting some good photos, it was off to the camp of Skukuza were we would spend the night. After checking everybody inn, we met again at 19h00 for dinner at the Selati Restaurant and afterwards it was off to bed to get a good nights rest.

Next morning, it was up early and after enjoying tea and coffee, it was out and on to the road to see what we could find, We made our way down alongside the Sabie river, getting good sightings of hippo, crocodile, bushbuck, elephant and buffalo. We made our way down to the Nkulu Picnic spot were the guests enjoyed a good breakfast. After breakfast, it was back on the road to see what we could find, before making our way back to the Numbi Gate and then on to Johannesburg. On our return journey to Skukuza, we came accross a female lion lying next to the river, and after spending some good time with her e made our way on. We turned at the Skukuza fourways and made our way back down the Napi Road that would take us back to the Numbi gate. As we were travelling down the road, we received a radio message about a mating pair of lions down the H3 from the Napi road, so we decided to take a look. Upon arrival at the sighting, we found a male and female lion lying close to the road, and after a short while the female got up and alked close to our open safari vehicle to a tree to get some shade from the hot sun. We spent some good time on this sighting, before making our way back to the Napi Road, and then onto the Numbi Gate. We made our way back to Rockies Drift, ere we changed into our transfer vehicle and made our way back to Johannesburg. 

Feedback from the guests wwas that they really enjoyed the short safari, and will be returning with more members of there family who would no doubt enjoy doing something like this.