We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience
My husband and I spend few days last month exploring the wilderness of Kruger National Park (South Africa), one of the largest Game reserves in Africa. We were in Balule region of Kruger and used to go on game drives twice a day.
Witnessing animals in their natural habitat was amazingly soothing, it made us lose the will to visit a zoo in future. The anticipation of unexpected sightings in the great bush was just thrilling. We witnessed some breath taking views and landscapes which left us speechless.
Entering the Balule region of Kruger Park
The first animal we spotted was an African Tusker. These fellows demand respect and space from viewers
A gentle Giraffe, just busy eating his lunch. He gave us a glance and then calmly went back to munching. Fact – Darker the spots, older the giraffe
Next we spotted another of the Big 5 – Cape Buffalo. Males have these thick helmetted horns
Impalas, the most commonly seen antelope in South Africa
Finally we saw a legendary African sunset
Each sunset in South Africa was different from the previous one…sunset sky never bored our camera
A mesmerising morning in the bush of Kruger
Yellow-billed Hornbill, most commonly seen in South Africa
A large family of Giraffe, including a tiny baby giraffe
A young Elephant on its way to take a sip and a dip
Here comes the ultimate beast – the king of the jungle…a white lion. Notice all the battle scars on its face…
A pride of White lions and lionesses!
Being all daring and playing with a Black Panther cub and a Leopard cub
A cute Warthog family. I discovered their cuteness only after visiting SA
A White Rhino, turned out the word ‘white’ is a currupted form of ‘wide’ which referes to the shape of their mouth and has nothing to do with the color
A Zebra family
Zebra and Wildebeest always move together, Wildebeest benefit because they eat short grass that zebra leave behind
How I wish the sunsets could last longer, but it’s a magic of just few minutes
African Wild Dog – they always move and hunt in packs, are very efficient predators, take care of all the babies in the pack even if not their own
Another one, crossing the path right in front of us
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Many of these pictures are NOT taken in Kruger Park, they have been taken at the Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve in Johannesburg. It is here at this privately owned reserve where big cats and wild dogs are kept in enclosures and where they allow tourists to touch and play with lion cubs and other cats which is not a practice that is condoned by most of us South Africans who actually take pride in our wildlife and want to see them properly respected.
You are indeed right. The pictures with Lion, Warthog, Zebra, Wildebeest, Wild dogs and Rhino in it are from Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in Joburg. There is no doubt about it that wildlife is at its best in parks like Kruger, free in their natural habitat, but it was our hard luck that we didn't spot any predator in Kruger. We certainly wanted that experience and specially because we didn't know when we are gonna visit South Africa next in our lives, so we decided to visit Joburg Rhino & Lion reserve while we were in the city. AND WE ARE SO GLAD WE DID!! Animals there are fed by the caretakers, predators don't hunt and herbivores and predators are kept in separate enclosures and they are like very huge enclosures. It is definitely not in the wild but at the same time they aren't in cages or anything. The Pic where we are playing with the cubs is a separate enclosure named as 'Animal Creche', they put the orphaned or rescued animal babies in there and take care of them.
Load More Replies... Thank you everyone who upvoted my post!! I'm new on boredpanda and it is a huge encouragement. I'm so grateful. :D
Glad you liked there pics!! ????????
Load More Replies... Many of these pictures are NOT taken in Kruger Park, they have been taken at the Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve in Johannesburg. It is here at this privately owned reserve where big cats and wild dogs are kept in enclosures and where they allow tourists to touch and play with lion cubs and other cats which is not a practice that is condoned by most of us South Africans who actually take pride in our wildlife and want to see them properly respected.
You are indeed right. The pictures with Lion, Warthog, Zebra, Wildebeest, Wild dogs and Rhino in it are from Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in Joburg. There is no doubt about it that wildlife is at its best in parks like Kruger, free in their natural habitat, but it was our hard luck that we didn't spot any predator in Kruger. We certainly wanted that experience and specially because we didn't know when we are gonna visit South Africa next in our lives, so we decided to visit Joburg Rhino & Lion reserve while we were in the city. AND WE ARE SO GLAD WE DID!! Animals there are fed by the caretakers, predators don't hunt and herbivores and predators are kept in separate enclosures and they are like very huge enclosures. It is definitely not in the wild but at the same time they aren't in cages or anything. The Pic where we are playing with the cubs is a separate enclosure named as 'Animal Creche', they put the orphaned or rescued animal babies in there and take care of them.
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