Before my recent trip, I hadn't fully grasped how large the Kruger National Park is. The park is 19,500 square kilometers (7,523 square miles), spread over a pipe-shaped area 360 kilometers (220 miles) long and [...]
I like birds as much as the next person, but I am not a Birder with a capital B. In fact, I've been known to make fun of Birders occasionally. (Sorry, Birder friends. You [...]
I've just come back from a week with Ray and his family in the Kruger National Park. I'm not sure where to begin writing about it. This was an extraordinary trip. Sunrise in the Kruger. [...]
Once upon a time, the Makuleke people lived on a triangle-shaped piece of land, bordered by two rivers, at the intersection of three countries. The land was beautiful and fertile, with a huge diversity of [...]
The Pafuri Triangle -- a piece of wilderness in the very northern corner of South Africa's Kruger National Park -- is a land of giants. The trees are huge. The animals are huge. The [...]
I don't think there's much more I can say about this. Giraffes at sunset, shot last night near the Ndzuti Safari Camp. I just got back from four days in the Klaserie Game Reserve, [...]
Welcome to the final blog post about my hike through the Kruger Park’s Pafuri Triangle: the mineral installment. Most of the facts in this post were gleaned from Brian, our Pafuri wilderness guide, and [...]
Announcements: 1) A story about my Kruger trip has been published on travelgurus.co.za. Please check it out. 2) 2Summers turned one today! I wrote my first 2Summers post exactly a year ago, six weeks [...]
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 [...]