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We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

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My husband and I spend few days last month exploring the wilderness of Kruger National Park (South Africa), one of the largest Game reserves in Africa. We were in Balule region of Kruger and used to go on game drives twice a day.

Witnessing animals in their natural habitat was amazingly soothing, it made us lose the will to visit a zoo in future. The anticipation of unexpected sightings in the great bush was just thrilling. We witnessed some breath taking views and landscapes which left us speechless.

Entering the Balule region of Kruger Park

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

The first animal we spotted was an African Tusker. These fellows demand respect and space from viewers

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

A gentle Giraffe, just busy eating his lunch. He gave us a glance and then calmly went back to munching. Fact – Darker the spots, older the giraffe

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

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Next we spotted another of the Big 5 – Cape Buffalo. Males have these thick helmetted horns

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

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Impalas, the most commonly seen antelope in South Africa

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

Finally we saw a legendary African sunset

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

Each sunset in South Africa was different from the previous one…sunset sky never bored our camera

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

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A mesmerising morning in the bush of Kruger

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

Yellow-billed Hornbill, most commonly seen in South Africa

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

A large family of Giraffe, including a tiny baby giraffe

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

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A young Elephant on its way to take a sip and a dip

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

Here comes the ultimate beast – the king of the jungle…a white lion. Notice all the battle scars on its face…

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

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A pride of White lions and lionesses!

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

Being all daring and playing with a Black Panther cub and a Leopard cub

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

A cute Warthog family. I discovered their cuteness only after visiting SA

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

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A White Rhino, turned out the word ‘white’ is a currupted form of ‘wide’ which referes to the shape of their mouth and has nothing to do with the color

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

A Zebra family

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

Zebra and Wildebeest always move together, Wildebeest benefit because they eat short grass that zebra leave behind

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

How I wish the sunsets could last longer, but it’s a magic of just few minutes

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

African Wild Dog – they always move and hunt in packs, are very efficient predators, take care of all the babies in the pack even if not their own

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We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

Another one, crossing the path right in front of us

We Visited Kruger National Park Last Month And It Was A Life Changing Experience

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Indian Gallivanters

Travel junkies, passion for photography

Travel junkies, passion for photography

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Indian Gallivanters (Post author) 8 years ago

Thank you everyone who upvoted my post!! I'm new on boredpanda and it is a huge encouragement. I'm so grateful. :D

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Hans 8 years ago

Amazing pictures, no question. An activity to put on the bucket list!

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Indian Gallivanters (Post author) 8 years ago

Thank you!

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Blue 8 years ago

Awesome pictures and very informative too. Thanks for sharing! :)

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Indian Gallivanters (Post author) 8 years ago

Glad you liked there pics!! ????????

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Chantelle Browne 8 years ago

Many of these pictures are NOT taken in Kruger Park, they have been taken at the Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve in Johannesburg. It is here at this privately owned reserve where big cats and wild dogs are kept in enclosures and where they allow tourists to touch and play with lion cubs and other cats which is not a practice that is condoned by most of us South Africans who actually take pride in our wildlife and want to see them properly respected.

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Indian Gallivanters (Post author) 8 years ago

You are indeed right. The pictures with Lion, Warthog, Zebra, Wildebeest, Wild dogs and Rhino in it are from Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in Joburg. There is no doubt about it that wildlife is at its best in parks like Kruger, free in their natural habitat, but it was our hard luck that we didn't spot any predator in Kruger. We certainly wanted that experience and specially because we didn't know when we are gonna visit South Africa next in our lives, so we decided to visit Joburg Rhino & Lion reserve while we were in the city. AND WE ARE SO GLAD WE DID!! Animals there are fed by the caretakers, predators don't hunt and herbivores and predators are kept in separate enclosures and they are like very huge enclosures. It is definitely not in the wild but at the same time they aren't in cages or anything. The Pic where we are playing with the cubs is a separate enclosure named as 'Animal Creche', they put the orphaned or rescued animal babies in there and take care of them.

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Indian Gallivanters (Post author) 8 years ago

Thank you everyone who upvoted my post!! I'm new on boredpanda and it is a huge encouragement. I'm so grateful. :D

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Hans 8 years ago

Amazing pictures, no question. An activity to put on the bucket list!

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Indian Gallivanters (Post author) 8 years ago

Thank you!

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Blue 8 years ago

Awesome pictures and very informative too. Thanks for sharing! :)

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Indian Gallivanters (Post author) 8 years ago

Glad you liked there pics!! ????????

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Chantelle Browne 8 years ago

Many of these pictures are NOT taken in Kruger Park, they have been taken at the Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve in Johannesburg. It is here at this privately owned reserve where big cats and wild dogs are kept in enclosures and where they allow tourists to touch and play with lion cubs and other cats which is not a practice that is condoned by most of us South Africans who actually take pride in our wildlife and want to see them properly respected.

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Indian Gallivanters (Post author) 8 years ago

You are indeed right. The pictures with Lion, Warthog, Zebra, Wildebeest, Wild dogs and Rhino in it are from Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in Joburg. There is no doubt about it that wildlife is at its best in parks like Kruger, free in their natural habitat, but it was our hard luck that we didn't spot any predator in Kruger. We certainly wanted that experience and specially because we didn't know when we are gonna visit South Africa next in our lives, so we decided to visit Joburg Rhino & Lion reserve while we were in the city. AND WE ARE SO GLAD WE DID!! Animals there are fed by the caretakers, predators don't hunt and herbivores and predators are kept in separate enclosures and they are like very huge enclosures. It is definitely not in the wild but at the same time they aren't in cages or anything. The Pic where we are playing with the cubs is a separate enclosure named as 'Animal Creche', they put the orphaned or rescued animal babies in there and take care of them.

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