Berg-en-Dal beauty

If a visit to the Kruger National Park is not on your bucket list, you should update your list. It is important to remember, though, that it's about more than just the Big Five and those picture-perfect sightings in the Kruger. Most visitors drive through the park with the visitors' map book at hand, on their way to all the Big Five hotspots, utterly unaware of the subtle changes in the park's ecosystems as you move from rest camp to rest camp. And it is precisely here, in the seemingly invisible, where the true charm of the Kruger lies.

In 1970 a massive research study was commissioned, focusing on studying the park's varying fauna and flora. This study, which took place over several years with the botany section led by William Gretenbach, recorded more than 3 000 unique botanical areas. In 1983, a report entitled "Landscapes of the KNP" was published in the scientific journal . The