Kruger, Top to Bottom: Secret Places and Random Tips

15 August 2017

Before my recent trip, I hadn’t fully grasped how large the Kruger National Park is. The park is 19,500 square kilometers (7,523 square miles), spread over a pipe-shaped area 360 kilometers (220 miles) long and about 65 kilometers (40 miles) wide.

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15 Birds of the Kruger National Park

08 August 2017

I like birds as much as the next person, but I am not a Birder with a capital B. In fact, I’ve been known to make fun of Birders occasionally. (Sorry, Birder friends. You make me laugh sometimes.)

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Three Incredible Moments in the Kruger

04 August 2017

I’ve just come back from a week with Ray and his family in the Kruger National Park. I’m not sure where to begin writing about it. This was an extraordinary trip.

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Pafuri: A Beautiful Place With an Ugly History, Turned Beautiful Again

31 May 2016

Once upon a time, the Makuleke people lived on a triangle-shaped piece of land, bordered by two rivers, at the intersection of three countries. The land was beautiful and fertile, with a huge diversity of animals and the mightiest trees in the world. This triangle was called Pafuri.

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The Land of Elephants and Baobabs

26 May 2016

The Pafuri Triangle – a piece of wilderness in the very northern corner of South Africa’s Kruger National Park – is a land of giants. The trees are huge. The animals are huge. The beauty of the landscape is beyond comprehension.

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Sunset + Giraffes = Beautiful

26 February 2015

I don’t think there’s much more I can say about this.

Giraffe sunset

Giraffes at sunset, shot last night near the Ndzuti Safari Camp.

I just got back from four days in the Klaserie Game Reserve, just outside of Kruger National Park. I’ll have much more to say about the trip in a future post but for now I want to share this one photo.

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