In the northern part you find more of the mopaneveld and the beginning of the country of elephants. The south has a lovely vegetation of the bush willow. This is the dividing line between the northern Kruger and the southern Kruger.

Let us see what we have at the Olifants River. There are private flights chartered to Kruger National Park Lodge which has an airstrip.Īs you go to the Kruger National Park there are many spots for sightseeing. Then you can also access the park from the Johannesburg or Tanmbo Airport. The Phalaborwa airport lies in the northern part of Kruger National Park, the Hoedspruit airport lies in the Central part of the park and the Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport lies in the Southern part of the park. Otherwise just take a car and drive down to this place. One is by air where you can access this place from the Hoedspruit Airport, Kruger Mpumalanga International airport or the Phalaborwa airport.

There are two ways you can reach this place. Here you would find the best kind of flora and fauna and the stupendous surroundings would certainly give you the time of your life. It is the rearing of this young king, and the hilarious endeavours to teach him to become a ‘real’ lion who could survive with his own kind in the wild, that lie at the heart of this endearing memoir.In the wilderness of South Africa deep in the verdant expanse of Greenland lies a land of paradise – The Kruger National Park. Reared on a cocktail of love and bottles of fat-enriched milk, Leo soon became an affectionate, rambunctious and adored member of the family. Yet nothing prepared the Krüger for their greatest adventure of all, the raising of an orphaned prince, a lion cub who, when they found him, was only a few days old and on the verge of death. And one terrible day, a lion attacked Kobus in the bush and nearly killed him. They soon became accustomed to living with the unexpected: the sneaky hyenas who stole blankets and cooking pots, the sinister-looking pythons that slithered into the house, and the usually placid elephants who grew foul-tempered in the violent heat of the summer. Kobie recounts their enchanting adventures and extraordinary experiences in this vast reserve – a place where, bathed in golden sunlight, hippos basked in the glittering waters of the Letaba River, storks and herons perched along the shoreline, and fruit bats hung in the sausage trees.īut as the Krüger settled in, they discovered that not all was peace and harmony. Yet, for Kobie and her family, the seventeen years spent in this spectacularly beautiful park proved to be the most magical – and occasionally the most hair-raising – of their lives.

When Kobie Krüger, her game-ranger husband and their three young daughters moved to one of the most isolated corners of the world – a remote ranger station in the Mahlangeni region of South Africa’s vast Kruger National Park – she might have worried that she would become engulfed with loneliness and boredom.

The wilderness family by kobie kruger