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Things To Do: Watch Game From the Kumasinga Hide
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  • Mkuze Game Reserve - White Rhino at Kumasinga
  • White Rhino at Kumasinga
  • by Waxbag
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  • The Kumasinga Hide here is one of the most amazing hides I have ever seen. You can sit by the hours and watch the animals. The hide is situated directly over the water hole. You are only just a few meters away from the animals as they come and drink and they don't know you are there. We drove all over the park and did see very much. But here at the hide, all the animals come to drink. We sat here by the hour and just watched the animals come and go including:
    zebra
    wildebeest
    nyala
    impala
    kudu
    warthog
    white rhino
    vervet monkey
    baboon
    hyena

    The purple crested lourie, the paradise whydah, and blackcollared barbet were some of the more interesting birds spotted here.

    When you are really close to the animals and there is no interference with the sound (being restricted to a car with the car noise) you really get another sense of what is going on by hearing.

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    Directions: Mkuze is apart of the Kwazulu-Natal Park system and is located about 100 km North of Mtubatuba off of the N12 and about 150 km from St. Lucia. It is about 50 km South of the Swaziland boarder.
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    Things To Do: The Elephants are North Near Nhlonhlela Bush Camp
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  • Mkuze Game Reserve - Elephants Crossing the Mkuze River
  • Elephants Crossing the Mkuze River
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  • There are about 35 elephants in Mkuze. They all use to be in the south of the park and very difficult to see. Well they are still very difficult to find but are in the northern section of the park along the Mkuze River and at Nhlonhela Pan. There is more water up here and there is plenty of vegetation.

    If you can see if you can come up to the Nhlonhela Bush Camp. The rangers let me go up to the camp to see the elephants because there were no clients staying at the camp. When I got to the camp a ranger took me down along the river to spot the elephants. The views along the river are nice and the ranger was extremely friendly and informative.

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    Address: Mkuze Game Reserve, Kwazulu-Natal, SA
    Directions: The Nhloghlela Bush Camp is west of the Mantuma the main camp. Mkuze is apart of the Kwazulu-Natal Park system and is located about 100 km North of Mtubatuba off of the N12 and about 150 km from St. Lucia. It is about 50 km South of the Swaziland boarder.
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    Things To Do: Nsumo Pan
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  • Mkuze Game Reserve - Openbilled Stork on Nsumo Pan
  • Openbilled Stork on Nsumo Pan
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  • Nsumo Pan is a shallow lake that is feed by the Mkhuze river, located on the east central part of the park. Here is the best spot in the game reserve to find water birds as well as crocodile and hippo. There are a couple of platforms on the edge of the lake but they are not hides, unfortunately.

    Some of the birds that I spotted here are as follows:
    Glossy Ibis
    Hadadah ibis
    Blackwinged stilt
    Whitefaced duck
    Jacana
    Great White Egrets
    African Fisheagle
    Natal Robin
    Yellow billed stork
    Wooly Headed stork
    Openbill stork

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    Address: Mkhuze Game Reserve
    Directions: South west of Mantuma, the main camp.
    Website: www.ksnwildlife.com
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    Comments for Waxbag about Mkuze Game Reserve
    mtncorg Fri Jun 3, 2005 18:51 UTC
     Definitely another Park for the List! Super pictures!
    ukirsari Fri Sep 3, 2004 19:15 UTC
     i love the baboon and the baby here. so cool!!!

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