Enter the Kruger

We were up at 6:30am and I made coffee whilst Ellie sorted the bedding out. By 7:30sm we were packing up and by 8:30am we were ready move, and as a first attempt at packing everything away we were pleased with an hour.
We weren’t leaving yet as we had to get some shopping to do, some diesel to get and Ellie wanted to drive down the crocodile river road.
Unfortunately Spar didn’t have any of the salad stuff we wanted and when we went to get the diesel the petrol tanker was there. Then we got stuck on a 4x4 road along the edge of the crocodile river but I managed to turn us around and get out of it, but that little escapade cost us nearly an hour. Luckily because it took so long the petrol tanker had gone on the way back and then we got diesel.
We finally left Marloth Park at 10am and we entered The Kruger National Park at 10:45am. Now it was the long journey of 80 miles to reach Satara Rest Camp. That doesn’t sound far but with a top speed of 30mph that worked out at 3 hours.
We treated the drive as game drive even though I was travelling faster than spotting speed and it was good to see different animals. Elephants, Buffalo, and Wilderbeast.
We stopped half way at an outpost and got something to eat and drink before carrying on and once on the move we came across the biggest herd of buffalo we had ever seen. 2 of them were blocking the road and we had to wait 10 minutes for them to move.
At 2:30pm we finally arrived at Satara and we were exhausted from the drive and the 34°c heat.
We found a nice little spot with electric just a few meters away from the fence line and it took us 30 minutes to set up. Excluding the time it took me to hammer the pegs in because the ground was like concrete. And as soon as camp was ready we went swimming to cool off.
Back at camp Ellie cooked dinner in the omnia oven on the gas stove and then as the sun set we went and sat by the fence line to watch for hyenas. We didn’t see any tonight but we did hear the lions roaring and we saw hundreds of fireflies which we had never seen here before.Baca selengkapnya