Adventure Afrika

Cruising the Kruger

Waking up at 4:00 in the morning to pack any loose odds and ends to hit the road for the four-hour drive to a place you have visited many times before must seem like one of the worst things a person can do on a Thursday… However, both me and my colleague (and father), Anton Snr, were filled with child-like excitement.

Yes, we have gone through this routine of early-morning departure and a coffee stop at the popular Alzu Petroport on the N4 en route to the Kruger National Park a thousand times before… Yet, the promise of what we could potentially see and experience still gets our engines revving!

And speaking of revving engines: our chariot for

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