Enjoying The Kruger Without Staying In The Park

[Flutterby]

Looks lovely there Lis!

[Pumbaa]

Great start, Lis,

really love the baboons in a row shots and the one from the large tree with the grazing Impalas and on top the giraffes in the best light - Indeed a great start

Your accommodation looks lovely

[Lisbeth]

The next day I went to Checkers and did some shopping and to Ackermann for a telephone. It is cheaper to buy a telephone than a SIM card; what I did not know though, was that if you do not use the telephone for “I don’t know how much time, maybe a week?” they block it and you can only do messages and emergency numbers

Next ‘must do’ was to buy the Wildcard which allows you to do a lot for a whole year, but hardly taken advantage of by overseas visitors. Excellent excuse for the exaggerated price, NOT!

Unfortunately, I only started taking notes after a few days, so the first pics are a bit mixed up, but I am sure that you couldn’t care less

My first drive in the Park:

I was still going through the gate when two dwarf mongooses flew across the road, never knew they have wings for special occasions Since then every time I entered or exited the gate I looked for those two brown spots, but never saw them again

The first destination was, of course, Sable hide on the S51 and many other times during my stay

First glimpse of an elephant, but not the last

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A peep on the Dam before arriving at the hide

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Not yet time to start the long trip to Europe

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On the far side of the Dam an elephant parade

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OoH! Those were my first elephant after 4 years with no elephants

[Lisbeth]

A nice gentleman, who just arrived when I was about to leave, told me there were 2 male lions lying close to the road a bit further on

A curious zebra (It was also my first zebra )

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On the road looking right and left or was it left and right in order not to miss the lions

It would have been impossible to miss them, they were very close, one of them almost touched the road with the right paw

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This one

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At least they were not sleeping ........yet

[Richprins]

Lis!

At last you got in, and sommer lions too!

What vehicle did you have? I hope it had aircon!

Lovely male there.

[Alf]

Stunning pictures of sable dam and the lions

[Lisbeth]

Lis!

What vehicle did you have? I hope it had aircon!

Lovely male there.

I did write about the car and also the a/c "A VW Polo with a great air condition system".

Stunning pictures of sable dam and the lions

Nothing stunning about the dam pics, the ellies were far away, but thank you anyway

[Mel]

I agree that the Wild Card is crazily expensive for internationals, but still worth it's money from about day 6 or 7 onwards.
You'll probably will have made good use of it as well? And if not - start planning your January 2020 trip (or rather December,
so it's still within a year )

That lion is not only not sleeping, he's also rather handsome for a Kruger lion

[Lisbeth]

One of them was very handsome, the other one less.

December is what I would like too, we'll see

[Pumbaa]

Hi Lis,

I also like your Sable dam shots - A place which is rather seldom visited by us so great to see it again via your shots

Love the ellie shots and great that you already saw lions and on top that close