Madikwe Private Game Reserve is a 76,000 hectare reserve in the Northwest of South Africa, practically at the Botswanan border (at the edge of the Kalahari). It is a comparatively young reserve, transformed about 25 years ago in 1991 from farmland. When you are driving around the reserve you can still see it is recovering […]
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5 reasons you should visit Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
So you may recently have read through my astonishingly entertaining trip report of our 12 night stay in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in March 2017. Or, even more likely, you didn’t (but you totally should). Regardless, I’m here to give you five simple reasons why YOU HAVE TO VISIT KGALAGADI. Like now. Well, maybe not […]
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In May this year we were lucky enough to spend one night at Jaci’s Tree Lodge – our second stay in a lodge within Madikwe Game Reserve. We were very excited to check it out, after having stayed a couple of times at one of their sister lodges Cheetah Plains in Sabi Sands game reserve. […]
Categories: ACCOMMODATION DESTINATIONS MADIKWE SOUTH AFRICA Posted onThornybush Game Reserve, South Africa
We were very excited to spend two nights in Thornybush Game Reserve as neither Van nor I had ever been there before! We had heard various reports of them dropping their fences to Timbavati (and thus becoming part of the Greater Kruger), but on the way there Van was confident the fences were still up, […]
Categories: ACCOMMODATION DESTINATIONS SOUTH AFRICA THORNYBUSH Posted onLearning about wildlife photography in Kruger
At the end of April I was lucky enough to secure a spot on EcoTraining’s wildlife photography course held at Makuleke, in the very north of Kruger. I was looking forward to heading back to one of the most magical places I have ever visited but during a much better time of year (my last […]
Categories: BLOG KRUGER SOUTH AFRICA WILDLIFE Posted onKgalagadi Trip: Days 13-14 (the end)
Finally after reading about the first few days of our Kgalagadi trip, then days 4-6, then days 7-9, then days 10-12 YOU ARE FINALLY AT THE END OF THE TRIP REPORT. Hold your horses and sit yourself down, microwave some popcorn and get ready to find out how this amazing tale ends…. Day 13: Lions […]
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