Plan your Kruger routes with new e-guide

Posted by Imogen Searra on 28 January 2019

When visiting the Kruger Naitonal Park, one can never have an expectation of what to see. You can spend hours in the park and not see a single creature, or you can have the most incredible road-side sightings. Now, thanks to the team at Latest Sightings who have developed an e-guide based on a map of Kruger, so that you can plan your routes based on hard data.

 

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I just came back from a quick trip to the Kruger. On our first day, we had 16 Lions in the river bed, and then waited for over an hour at a hiding Leopard. But, the wait was worth it when she came out with her 2 cubs. (She is still there for anyone around Lower Sabie) The Saturday was one of my quietest days in the park in a long while. Because it was so quiet, I thought I’d maximize my chances of seeing animals by staying up at the Berg en Dal waterhole. I saw a civet and hear lots of Lion roars. I woke up at 4am to do the same and the roars were even louder, but nothing came down to drink. But just before gates opening, Bridgeman, the guide doing the Berg en Dal morning drive, so incredibly kindly told me that the roaring Lions were on the road just outside the gate on the tar. We got there, and had the best sighting of the trip. Just after that, we turned the corner and 7 Wild Dogs shot accross the road and disappeared. Excitement like that is what keeps us coming back. #Tingedby @nadav_ossendryver Tags: #Nature #travel #vacation #view #adventure #outdoors #explore #lucky #wilderness #Tourist #Visiting #animal #camping #wild #africa #wildlife #safari #Krugernationalpark #Kruger #Krugerpark #Knp #Exploring #naturephotography
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Latest Sightings is a community for Kruger National Park visitors tht has developed an e-guide based on other visitor sightings. People can ‘ting’ (the equivilent of pinging or pinpointing a location) in their sightings for other visitors to use. The tings come from  sightings all around the park and can be extremely helpful when you are in particular areas or if you have been experiencing a slow day.

Although sightings are still not guaranteed, the information highlights outes that have experienced high volumes of particular animal traffic, giving you the chance to potentially cross paths with an illusive leopard or a hungry wild dog.

Latest Sightings has received thousands of tings for animal activity with the Kruger National Park. Along the H4-1 between July and December, 1072 tings of lion sightings were recorded and these are included in the e-guide. Areas and roads where certain animals prefer to frequent can be identified using the guide, based on the amount of times each animal was tinged.

 

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This almost looks like a Wild dog mound, and not a termite mound 😜 July – Aug is wild dog denning season, and towards the end of Aug, we get to see the cute pups come out to play. S7 near Pretoriuskop is a great road that has seen a wild dog den for the past few years. This year, S110 near Berg en Dal has also shown a lot of wild dogs with pups. This sighting was seen last week on the S110 and was #TingedBy @tazzpatrickbrown If you want to get alerts of Wild Dogs, in real-time, so you can have a great chance of seeing them, dm us for the link to the Whatsapp Group. Tags: #Nature #travel #vacation #view#adventure #outdoors #explore #lucky#wilderness #Tourist #Visiting #animal #wild #africa #wildlife #safari#Krugernationalpark #Kruger#Krugerpark #Knp #naturephotography
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The guide includes a checklist, so that visitors can keep track of every animal they have seen during their visit. Additionally, the e-guide will give you best times and the best camps to visit for each predator. If you are currently in the Kruger National Park or are planning to visit in the park in the near future, download the e-guide here.

 

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Honey Badger carrying her cub – by Chantell Terblanche What was a last minute decision to go to Kruger National Park on the 21st of April turned out to be the most memorable day of a lifetime. After finding the Big 5 all before 12:30 and adding a cheetah and wild dogs to the list, we decided to leave the park via Malelane Gate. On our way along the H3 coming from Skukuza, at about 2km from the intersection to Pretoriuskop and Malelane Gate, me, my husband Jaco, 10-year-old daughter Amoche and dear friend Janica Viljoen were starting to make peace with the fact that our day was coming to an end. We were all laughing at the day’s events when we saw a car in the opposite direction with a black ‘dot’ coming down the road towards us. We all went crazy as we realized what we were seeing was, in fact, our very first sighting in all the years visiting the park, a honey badger carrying her cub!!!!! We were overwhelmed with excitement as we saw her coming closer to our car, with my friend and I taking pictures and her climbing from one side to the other on the back seat. We turned around as she passed us, watching her jogging along the road and taking a breath after every few seconds as you could see she was getting tired, putting her cub, who stayed rolled up in a bundle, down everytime she needed to take a breath. We followed her for about 5 to 10 minutes when she moved off the road, into the bushes and disappeared. Leaving us overwhelmed with joy and a sighting to treasure forever. What a wonderful experience!!!! Tags: #Nature #travel #vacation #view #adventure #outdoors #explore #lucky #wilderness #Tourist #Visiting #animal #camping #wild #africa #wildlife #safari #Krugernationalpark #Kruger #Krugerpark #Knp #Exploring #naturephotography
#baby #mother #badger #cute #mothersday #honeybadger

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