Adventure Africa

14/08/2022

Welcome to the first episode of our 8 day Kruger National Park self-drive adventure! In this episode we stay in a River View Safari Tent at Lower Sabie Restcamp and explore the surrounding areas. During our stay we see many bird species, many common game species, elephant, hippo, crocodile, hyena, and most excitingly WILD DOGS!

Hope you enjoy the episode and that you stay tuned for episode 2. I will add the link to Episode 2 here as soon as it is available.

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Kruger National Park - Lower Sabie (Episode 1)

Episode 1 of 5. Welcome to the first episode of our 8 day Kruger National Park self-drive adventure! In this episode we stay in a River View Safari Tent at L...

18/07/2022

Missing these spectacular game drives in Kruger with

To say that Kruger is a remarkable place is an understatement. If you haven’t been yet, there is no such time as the present!

Now I need to go carry on editing my pictures and videos so that I have more to show you guys sometime soonish 😅

11/07/2022

These European Rollers were EVERYWHERE in Kruger and were such little posers! Often they would follow the car for a couple hundred meters, landing on the tips of bushes along the road, making for many perfect, close-up photo opportunities 🐦

07/07/2022

Nothing beats an ice cold G&T with while sitting at a waterhole waiting for the next sighting 🦒🐘🦁

Thanks for keeping our drinks ice cold 🧊

29/06/2022

Everyone loves a good wallow and play-fight in the pool on a beautiful, hot summer’s day ☀️ 🏖 Wishing it was summer…

We spotted this herd of Elephant grazing on the river banks, wallowing in the cool water and play-flighting with each other on a hot day in the Kruger. As far as I can remember, these pictures were taken on the banks of the Crocodile River, close to the Malelane Gate.

27/06/2022

This was my first ever Painted Dog (AKA Wild Dog) sighting, and needless to say, I was in awe of their beauty 😍 We were just busy driving along the H4-2 on our way from Lower Sabie to Berg en Dal and out of nowhere we saw a flash of colour on our left hand side in the bush. We immediately stopped and started reversing to see what it was, when suddenly this lone Painted Dog leaped out of the thick undergrowth. A couple seconds later about five other Painted Dogs also emerged from the bush.

25/06/2022

It was just incredible how many close-up encounters we got with these giants while we were in Kruger! We really loved sitting and spending time around these large majestic, peaceful and powerful animals and just enjoying their silent company.

09/06/2022

Leopards really are just big, curious, silly cats. This guy seemed to struggle a bit to find a comfortable spot to sleep for the rest of the day.

06/06/2022

I visited the Karoo National Park in July of 2021 while driving down from Limpopo to Cape Town. Join me as I explore this unique park in 24 hours.

“The Karoo National Park, founded in 1979, is a wildlife reserve in the Great Karoo area of the Western Cape, South Africa near Beaufort West. This semi-desert area covers an area of 750 square kilometres. The Nuweveld portion of the Great Escarpment runs through the Park. It is therefore partly in the Lower Karoo, at about 850 m above sea level, and partly in the Upper Karoo at over 1300 m altitude.

The Karoo National Park is a sanctuary for herds of springbok, gemsbok (or Oryx), Cape mountain zebra, red hartebeest, black rhinoceros, eland, kudu, klipspringer, bat-eared foxes, black-backed jackal, ostriches, and, since fairly recently, lions. It also has the greatest number of tortoise species of any park in the world - five in total.”

https://youtu.be/aYi6AUl0IBE

I visited the Karoo National Park in July of 2021 while driving down from Limpopo to Cape Town. Join me as I explore this unique park in 24 hours.“The Karoo ...

04/06/2022

I could unfortunately not get a great picture of these two Bateleurs but thought they were too magnificent to not share. It’s crazy to think that their wingspans can reach up to 1,90 meters!

02/06/2022

Can you name this bird? It is absolutely incredible how many different species of bird can be found in Kruger in the summer months! We started our trip counting and marking down the different bird species that we spotted, but after just a couple days it became too much a we just couldn’t keep up. Needles to say, birding in Kruger in December is fantastic!

31/05/2022

The bushveld chicken (AKA the Swainson’s Spurfowl) performing his favourite activity: waking me up at 5am.

Although very common in Kruger, these birds were definitely not taken for granted, as I strongly associate their district screeching “kreeeeet-kreeeeet-kreeeet” call at dawn and dusk with the bushveld.

30/05/2022

This little baby elephant must have been the cutest thing I have ever seen! It couldn’t have been older than a week old, and it was already running around and full of energy. It’s crazy to think that this TINY little thing is one day going to be a massive fully-grown elephant. I mean, this little guy was so small that even the grass was taller than him 🥺

28/05/2022

An accurate representation of me lazing around on the weekend 😂 We were lucky enough to see this awesome sighting on our first evening game drive just outside Berg en dal on the S110.

15/05/2022

Livingstone in his natural habitat, out in the bushveld 🚙 🌳

07/05/2022

Hello Kruger! We recently had the chance to finally visit Kruger National Park for the first time, and what a time it was! 😍 I’ll be sharing quite a few pics of Kruger in the coming weeks, starting with this one. Nothing quite beats a mid-morning coffee and rusk on the beautiful Olifants river bridge.

22/04/2022

We were lucky enough to see this Purple-crested Loerie (AKA Purple-crested Turaco), but unfortunately couldn’t get close enough for a good photo. I’m still very happy with this sighting 😅

18/04/2022

And so a lovely long weekend comes to a close 🌅

10/04/2022

3…2…1… Say Cheese! 📸

28/03/2022

I’m not sure exactly what type of lizard this is, but I thought these little guys’ colours were awesome! We spotted these little creatures sunbathing on a big boulder on a rock koppie in Karongwe when we stopped for some sundowners on our evening drive ☀️

23/03/2022

We were very lucky to see this beautiful Leopard chilling down in the riverbed, as it was almost impossible to spot from the road on the riverbank due to thick vegetation. Luckily it’s spots caught our eye as we drove past a little clearing, and we managed to snap this pic. Leopards really are such beautiful and majestic creatures 🐆

20/03/2022

Always fun getting muddy out on some backroad between Witsand and Arniston. Sadly also got a cracked windscreen 🙈 This was from a road trip up to the Garden Route back in December with some great friends.

21/02/2022

24 Hours in Mokala National park. New video is up on my YouTube channel now!

Join me as I explore the beautiful golden plains of Mokala National Park and see what this unique gem has to offer

20/02/2022

Mokala National Park, an untouched gem. Beautiful open golden grass plains filled with game. Real big-sky country.

I just (finally) finished editing the video where I spent 24 hours in this beautiful park. Video will be published on my YouTube channel tomorrow (Monday 21 Feb) @ 15:00 CAT. Link in bio 🎥

16/01/2022

I absolutely love the colours on this lilac-breasted roller basking in the last bit of the day’s sunshine ☀️

08/01/2022

Shortly after these pictures were taken this young Cheetah dashed into the bushes in a spontaneous attempt to take down a Nyala. Sadly (and fortunately for the Nyala) the bush was a bit too overgrown for the Cheetah to gain enough speed, and the Nyala managed to escape.

31/12/2021

Here’s to the last day of 2021 🥂 It had its ups and downs, but overall it was a great year for adventure! Happy NYE! 🎉

26/12/2021

Spotted this juvenile African Fish Eagle perched up in a tree close to a large dam in Karongwe, presumably eyeing out some fish for dinner 🦅

24/12/2021

Our awesome guide, Freddy, at on a mission to track down a large male Leopard 🐆 🐾

21/12/2021

Had this amazing lion sighting at Karongwe a couple months ago. This young lion was being very photogenic 🦁