Kruger National Park Transportation Tips by Bwana_Brown

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: We entered Kruger through the Paul Kruger gate near Skukuza Camp. From there we drove north for our first night at Satara Camp. The next day we meandered north by way of Olifants and Letaba Camps before reaching the new Mopani Camp where we spent two nights. Following that, we exited Kruger near its centre at Phalaborwa and then, because of time constraints, drove south on highways outside the Park. We then re-entered the Park at the Numbi gate near Pretoriuskop Camp, from which we drove across the very dry southern part of the park before exiting at Crocodile Bridge. By then, it was getting late in the day and we were lucky to find great accommodations in Nelspruit (see my South Africa page for details on that one!).

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'Mode': AROUND
Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: Our no frills rental car served us well during our 2-week 4000 km (2500 mile) excursion around a small part of South Africa! You will find that the roads in Kruger are a combination of very good paved roads as well as not so bad unpaved ones (this could change during the rainy season!). All of the Camps have petrol (gas) stations where you can fill up without problems. Note that the speed limit in the Park is 50 kph (30 mph) because you never know when game will decide to exercise its right of road-crossing! In our case, we had no Transportation problems at all (for more details on our car, see my 'South Africa' page). This photo shows a friendly Dik-Dik that was wandering around Letara Camp while we recharged our video camera batteries - they had conked out just as we saw a lion about to try to mate with a lioness!

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