Wild Kruger

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Kruger National Park in South Africa is one of Africa's great game reserves and one of the African Icons featured in our African Icons book (www.africanicons.co.za). We recently returned to Kruger and to Jock Safari Lodge (http://www.jocksafarilodge.com) - our tourism partner in the African Icons book. What a wonderful experience - brilliant game sightings, excellent service and food and luxurious rooms. It doesn't get better.

Some facts about Kruger National Park:

Kruger National Park covers and area of just under 2 million hectares.

It was established in 1898 to protect the wildlife of the South African Lowveld.

Kruger is home to a huge number s number of wildlife species: 336 trees, 49 fish, 34 amphibians , 114 reptiles, 507 birds and 147 mammals.

The park is part of the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere which is an area designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as an International Man and Biosphere Reserve.

The park has nine main gates allowing entrance to the different camps.

Kruger National Park was originally called the Sabi Game Reserve and was expanded into the Kruger National Park in 1926.

James Stevenson Hamilton was made the first warden of the reserve in 1902.

The first tourist visited the Sabi Game Reserve in 1923.

In 2002, Kruger National Park, Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe, and Limpopo National Park in Mozambique were incorporated into a peace park, the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park