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Kruger at Ground Level, Part 2: Vegetable

Posted by 2summers on June 26, 2011

Posted in: Limpopo Province, Parks and Nature Reserves, South Africa. Tagged: africa, animals, baobab, biodiversity, hiking, kruger, mountains, nature reserves, pafuri, photography, plants, south africa, travel, trees, Zimbabwe. 20 comments

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On to Part 2 of my hiking adventure in the Kruger Park: the vegetable installment.

I experienced some pretty incredible (and adrenaline-inducing) animal sightings on my four-day hike through the Pafuri Triangle (see Part 1). But as I sat on the flight home and thought about it, I decided my favorite sightings in Pafuri were plants, specifically trees. Continue Reading

Kruger at Ground Level, Part 1: Animal

Posted by 2summers on June 23, 2011

Posted in: Limpopo Province, Parks and Nature Reserves, South Africa. Tagged: africa, animals, birding, birds, camping, elephants, hiking, kruger, mountains, nature reserves, pafuri, photography, safaris, sight-seeing, south africa, travel, trees, weather. 32 comments

A big thank you to travelgurus.co.za and Wilderness Adventures for making this blog post possible.

Last weekend I visited Kruger National Park, the largest park in South Africa. This wasn’t just any old Kruger safari, either. I went to the remotest and most beautiful section of the park — the Pafuri Triangle.

A view of the Limpopo River, just before my plane landed at Pafuri Camp. The Pafuri Triangle is in the far northern corner of the Kruger Park, wedged between the Limpopo and Luvuvu Rivers and the borders of Zimbabwe and Mozambique.