After the Blue train, I headed a few hundred miles north of Cape Town into a remote area of rugged mountains near the towns of Clanwilliam and Citrusdel. A rocky, barren landscape of sandstone and scrub trees and bushes. But, amazingly considered one of the most biodiverse regions in the entire world! It is …
The Blue train is a famous 27 hour excursion linking Pretoria with Cape Town, a distance of about 1,000 miles. This was to have been a key part of my original trip as planned with my brother and sister. The train highlight was to be the evening dinner, men in coat and tie, ladies in …
And it was really special! Marvin somehow spotted a kill in a tree as we were driving along. How he saw it, I will never know. A very fresh Impala kill. So fresh that the leopard was laying near by huffing and puffing mightily. They knew she had a cub somewhere in the area, …
After the great Friday morning drive, we rested to get ready to go out again that evening. This is one amazing area for wildlife! Within the first 30 minutes the guides found a very recent leopard kill. An aardvark! Very rare to see one, as they are only out late at night. Melvin, our guide …
Typically you do two game drives per day. The morning starts around 5:30, the evening one late afternoon. What I put together here is an amazing array of sightings all from one drive. I hope that you enjoy as I sure did.
In my previous Africa trip, the seeing of a pack of wild dogs on my very last game drive was a highlight of the entire trip. They are very rare, even in Krueger. (Less than 10 packs in an area the size of New Jersey.) The highlight aspect is the rarity, not the “prettiness” …
This is my last game drive at King’s Camp. It was really special as we saw a large group of elephants with a very young weeks old baby followed by a male and female leopard mating. (Unfortunately they chose to do this in the privacy of the bush so the shots are not ideal, but …
I will do a series of posts talking less and just sharing some photos that I hope you will like. This is all from one morning safari out of King’s camp.
Valid direction to be given on a game safari as we wander about the unmarked gravel roads that crisscross the reserve. But, which vulture nest? Today, we drove about 15 miles into the remote far eastern edge of the reserve, looking for those elusive lions. It was a hot day, 4:45 in the afternoon, …