SOUTH AFRICA

Wild on Wildlife - Don't forget the camera!

You’re just crazy about wildlife? Then this small-group travel adventure to South Africa is especially for you.  
 
Even if you’re not a complete fanatic, just a regular friend of Animal Planet, you’ll love this dedicated wildlife tour.  What you see on your television screen may enthral you but nothing beats being right there as a herd of elephants strolls across the road ahead of you.  Nothing sounds quite so eerie as a lion roaring in the night as you listen from the comfort of your bed.  
 
Maybe you’ve yearned to take an African safari but camping and travelling in overland trucks is not your style. On this tour you’ll travel in comfortable air-conditioned vehicles and stay in lodges and chalets. Best of all you’ll have oodles of time and opportunities to just sit, relax and enjoy everyday encounters with the amazing wildlife and birdlife.  Your camera won’t get much rest though!
 
What will you see?  Much more than you can imagine right now. You’ll be looking out for lion, leopard, cheetah, rhino, buffalo, elephant, springbok, kudu, impala, waterbuck, hartebeest, zebra, hyaena, wilddog, giraffe, wildebeest, baboon, crocodile, hippo…..that’s just a start. Add in vultures, eagles, owls, storks, ibis, barbets, hornbills, rollers, hoopoe, shrikes, kingfishers. By tour’s end you’ll be quite the expert on mammal and bird species.
 
Your ‘game-spotter’ eyes will get a well-earned rest with a brief sojourn around spectacular Blyde River Canyon between parks.
 
 PS: Scroll down for a gallery of characters you'll see.

Next departure - August 2013

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White Rhino

Krugersdorp Game Reserve

Chacma Baboon

Kruger National Park

Hippo and Jacana

Kruger National Park

The Pride

Krugersdorp Game Reserve

Cheetah

Pilanesburg National Park

Waterbuck

Kruger National Park

Giraffe

Kruger National Park

Red Hartebeest and calf

Pilanesburg National Park

White Rhino

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK

Kruger National Park is approximately 360 kilometres from North to South. It covers an area of nearly 2 million hectares.  There are 18 rest camps conveniently located throughout the park. Kruger has a diverse range of wildlife including 147 mammals and 507 different birds species.

PILANESBURG NATIONAL PARK

Pilanesburg National Park is located 150 kilometres northwest of the Gauteng metropolis. There are more than 6,000 head of game in this reserve including lion, elephant, black & white rhino, buffaloes, giraffe, leopard, zebra, hippos and crocodiles plus over 300 bird species.

The Isuzu is not the Mirrabac bus !

We are on this side of this 'Jumbo' - taking the photograph...We are not that stupid!

Image taken in Kruger Park, about three quarters of the way along N'wanetsi Road - near Satara © copyright Rob Bickford (March 2009)

Marabou Stork

Pilanesburg National Park

Crowned Crane

Krugersdorp Game Reserve

OVER 900+ BIRD SPECIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Southern Africa has a huge variety of bird species due to its climatic ranges; cooler in the southwest to hot and tropical in the north, as well as the latitude gradients which have produced a variety of habitats for so many species.