King of Kruger: Enjoy Kruger, #1

By Gv van Tonder and Riana van Tonder

On 25 March 2020 the Kruger National Park closed its gates to all visitors for the first time since opening in 1928. The animals became restless - they missed the creatures with their shining armour. So King Lion gathered the animals together and asked a very important question: "Where are those 'human-animals'?" 

The animals began searching, and this is what they found... 

 

This book is fun reading with a purpose - it also serves as a guide to the Kruger National Park in South Africa. It is Volume 1 of the Enjoy Kruger series that covers all types of topics related to enjoying a safari in South Africa's famous national park. Whether you have visited, are visiting, or plan to visit in the future, this guide will help you learn more about the behaviors of you and your fellow visitors. So, dear reader - which animal are YOU?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gv van Tonder
• Release date: May 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393436980

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Where are those human-animals?, the King of Kruger asked

Visitors’ behavior assessed by the animals of Kruger Park

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Something very strange happened and the animals of Kruger National Park were pondering. For the first time ever since opening its gates for overnight visitors in 1928, the Kruger National Park on 25 March 2020 closed its gates to all visitors and commenced an eerie, silent, isolated winter sleep.

The animals started to show strange behavior. They became curious and very bold, investigating, exploring, and searching all over for the humans who over a period of ninety years integrally became part of their existence. The animals became restless. They were missing these creatures with their shining armor. So, King Lion gave instructions to form search parties and find these creatures. It was agreed that with proper searches the missing visitors would easily be recognized when detected. After all, their habits, manners, and characteristics over decades very much started to resemble those of the permanent inhabitants of the Park. King Lion’s very specific orders, directives, and guidelines to detect the lost visitors in accordance with their different behavioral patterns went out. And the search began. 

You're right, dear reader – this guide is about you, and who you are when visiting Kruger. But yes, very much also about wildlife in the Kruger. This guide is recreational reading for focusing your attention on yourselves as visitors to Kruger and the particular habits that you have formed and carried over to next generations, over the decades.

This book focuses on you and your fellow visitors’ behaviors, whether as a first-time visitor or long-time devotee to the Park. It intends to convey that most of us when visiting Kruger actually adopt