| Page Views: 453 Last Visit to Kruger National Park: December, 2002 | Sabi Sand - Leopards and Luxury by janiebaxter - last update: Oct 14, 2007 |
Kruger National Park, was established in 1898, and is one of the largest game reserves in Africa - 300 km from north to south along the Mozambique border, and is easily accessible by road or by plane. Because of the great variety of habitats in the Kruger Park the game varies.
We stayed in Sabi Sand which is South Africa’s premier ‘Big Five’ private game reserve, on the western border of Kruger Park and is the place to see lion and particularly leopar. It is a sandy, wooded area, named after the Sabie River and the Sand River. There is no fence between Sabi Sand and the Kruger Park, so the animals can roam freely. Being in a private reserve, you can drive off-road, into the bush for good animal sightings.
We also got married here - under a Jackelberry Tree |
| Watching Elephants from the plunge pool |
|  | Vuyatela - Come and Visit Again We stayed at Vuyatela Lodge for 4 nights which has a sister lodge called Djuma close by and shares the same area in the Djuma Game Reserve. Vuyatela means "come and visit again"and is the more luxurious of the two with only eight spacious and private, suites which have large teak decks and plunge pools.
As we were in the wedding/honeymoon suite we had the best view of the waterhole from our deck and instead of taking the usual afternoon siesta we often just sat and watched the elephants stroll past on their way to drink. |
The Animals Sharing unfenced boundaries with the Kruger National Park and Mala Mala, Vuyatela has excellent game-viewing - including the 'Big Five', cheetah, hyena, jackal, buck, giraffe, and zebra. Lion and leopard sightings are excellent here.
We travelled to Sabi Sand with UK South Africa experts Rainbow Tours who also organised our wedding here | | |
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| Pros: | "Great for leopards and other wildlife" | | Cons: | "Can be a bit pricey" | | In A Nutshell: | "Exclusive and private with good game" |
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afrette Fri Oct 30, 2009 17:37 UTC
Aha - yet another Africophile! | angiebabe Wed Jul 15, 2009 19:55 UTC
Hi Janie, sweet to see your wedding pics thanks! all rather exciting of course fitting in with your African travels so wonderfully! Hope all is still going well. Hope I get back to see more of Africa myself before too long! | junecorlett Mon Apr 6, 2009 07:12 UTC
Sound advice for the game park. I am going to have a look at your wedding now. | Bwana_Brown Fri Sep 21, 2007 20:35 UTC
Congratulations on your wedding, especially in such a unique setting! Beautiful photos of your time in Kruger, they brought back great memories for me. |
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