With the Rhino poaching disaster on everyone’s lips, one cannot help but to feel angry, indignant, sad and such a myriad of emotions that it is hard to capture in one expression. The question it raises has much deeper answers though! The poachers should in my opinion be treated with no mercy.

The question is: are we any better than they are? How many of the very same people who are now jumping to join every social networking group regarding this issue have thrown rubbish out their car window in the last month? How many have flicked a cigarette butt out the car window in the last month? How many recycle their rubbish, save water, don’t kill the bees in their garden shed, swat the spider in the corner of the lounge, etc, etc?

If you look a little harder, Kruger has a lot more to offer than simply main camps. Whilst not at all bad, there are alternatives to the Kruger’s main camps like Letaba, Skukuza, Lower Sabie and Satara.

Bush Camps

This includes camps like Bateleur, Biyamiti, Talamati and my personal favourite, Shimuwini. These camps are smaller than main camps, do not have shops and usually have a hide at the camp where you can sit instead of going on game drives. Access is usually via private, resident only roads, which usually means there is not much infrastructure in terms of game viewing roads for people to drive. So to gain access to more prolific game drive roads, you would need to return to the main public roads.

The latest from the Kruger

Animals are now concentrated in the southern parts of the Kruger National Park where vegetation is still at its greenest and where water is also more abundant.

Visitors to the Kruger Park during this time of year have a very good chance of seeing all of the BIG 5 (lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants and buffalos). These animals are now spending most of their time along the permanent water sources, but will be ready to move north and spread out with the keenly anticipated summer rains.