Africa Wild

to be continued...

After a long drive, over roads ruined by potholes, we safely arrived at Memorial Gate.

We would be staying in this wonderful park for the next three days.






At Hilltop camp we saw this handy sign.


At the Camp entrance we saw these Bee eaters:




After having checked in, we did a short drive.




Wonderful Nyala family.








An older male


A nice view of the wonderful nature


To be continued…

Great photos of the Collared Sunbird feeding on the Aloe!

Hluhluwe-Imfolosi

Thank you all for your kind comments and for still following our trip....

Today the 17th of November we enjoyed a nice Rugby win Scotland vs South Africa 0-28...well done Springboks!!

We will continue our TT.

Our first full day in Hluhluwe started with a sighting of this nice Giraffe


Then we saw stalking Lions just on the border of the Imfolosi section of the park, near the Nyalasi Gate….the pictures aren’t great but we made them with a teleconverter attached to the 500mm.






Rhinos somewhere in the park


Big Horned Rhino and little Rhino





Wonderful view from point Nr. 17 with crossing Buffalos it was very hot during this Winter, it was over 33 degrees celcius







Crested Barbet


Some lazy Rhinos




A lonely zebra crossing the road.


Brown Warthogs….probably because of the dust…


More Rhinos seen earlier that day








We returned to camp and enjoyed a nice BBQ at Hilltop restaurant.

To be continued…

Bushveld Jock wrote:Great pics of the rhino and amazed by your lion shots. They were just too far for us to get a proper shot. Hope you had the same luck as us with no 17. Lots of buffalo only means one thing that lions are not to far away.

Four mites(Bushveld Jock, PRWIN, vinkie and Apex Predator) at the same sighting, but no one knew about it at the moment

Our last full day at Hluhluwe

We took the long route to Imfolozi and had some nice sightings.








After the gate we saw this Cape Vulture on a nest


At the lookout point we saw these Zebras and enjoyed the view






We continued our route to the Centenary Center and made a stop to read about the Parks history.












Just before we reached Mpila Camp we saw this Martial Eagle(not a very good picture)




Saw this Giraffe and these Wildebeest before we had a short Rusk with Coffee break at the Picnic spot i15, they toilets had some kind of drainage problem….it smelled awful near the carpark….




After we left the camp we decided to take some of the loops near the water and as we turned into one of the loops we were stopped by a boy who told us to get out of the car and “come and take a look at the sandbank in the water”.
Two Lions where having a good time together on the Sandbank….

We stood and looked at the scene and felt a bit embarrassed watching this special moment…the Lion couple seemed to have felt the same and left for more privacy behind the bushes…

While we were taking some photos of a couple of beautiful Rhinos we hear some commotion by some Imapla…running away and making sounds of fear.


It seemed that there had been a cheetah chasing them…that is what a car told us who came rushing up the road in high speed.
We stayed and waited for the Cheetah to arrive but didn’t see it, we did see the Impalas keeping an eye on the road ahead of us.
After a few minutes we decided to continue our route to Lookout point i17.

At the next turn we saw the Cheetah crossing the road, turning its head around , probably looking at the Imaplas it had failed to catch.


We stayed with the Cheetah and slowly followed it as it continued to walk further away….at last last stopped at the top of a hill, sat down at a tree and relaxed….after a while it disappeared over the hill….we tried to spot it again but it had left….
















We continued to Lookout point i17 and saw some bushbuck near the water….









We returned to the camp and on our way back we saw these Warthogs





We enjoyed the Sunset....


Spotted this rhino


and returned to the camp for a good night sleep....we would have a long drive the next day returning to KNP




To be continued…

Cheetah how cool is this, vinkie

Like the balloonplant, too

Richprins wrote: Those are nyala, I think?

hmm I think i have made a mistake

Thank you all for your kind comments

We really enjoyed our stay in KZN but unfortunately we had to leave....the good part was that we were heading back to KNP

We will continue our trip in the Travel Tales of Kruger National Park section

If you would like to follow the rest of our trip click here: Vinkie and Apex Predator back in the bushveld