26th May 2012 – Stay at Crocodile Bridge Camp

26th May 2012 – Stay at Crocodile Bridge Camp

The drive from Pretoria was pretty straightforward and uneventful and we arrived at Crocodile Bridge Gate at around 2.40pm having stopped just once for fuel on the way.

As we drove over the bridge to enter through the gate we saw some elephants in the river and thought this was a great omen for our time in Kruger! After driving over the bridge we parked up and went to reception where we bought our Wild Card and checked into camp for the night. We then went through the park gates and headed into camp (as this was right next to the gate). We unpacked the car and had a quick look around.

The camp was clean and well kept. Our room was too. We had 3x single beds and a bathroom. Outside we had a patio area with the stove, sink, fridge, cooking utensils and a braai. We decided that as we had arrived early we might as well go for an afternoon game drive so we headed back out into the park. On our 2 hour game drive we saw several animals including 3x rhinos crossing the road in front of us.

When we got back to camp we made stew and drunk a few Savannah ciders. We also planned our route for the next day before having an early night ready for an early start the next day.

27th May 2012 – Stay at Lower Sabie Camp

At 6am we packed up our car, checked out (put our keys in the ‘key box’) and left camp.

The early morning drive was quite although it did get better a few hours in and we ended up spending a full 9 hours driving, until arriving at Lower Sabie camp at 3pm. We ended up seeing many animals including lions lying in the road together with a hyena.

We also saw rhino, impala, buffalo, owl, mongoose, giraffe, hippos, elephant, zebras, bushbuck, stalk, ground hornbills and a ground squirrel in a tree! As well as all this we saw an injured lioness on the river bank, a lioness near camp and a male lion lying down in the bushes – lots of lion sighting for day 1!


Most of this was seen in the morning as we didn’t really see much from 10am-2pm. Once we had arrived at camp we were both very tired after a long day in the car. Our room was very basic and a bit tired looking but it was OK. It consisted of 2x single beds, a bathroom, fridge and a patio area with a table and chairs and a braai. We heated up our left over stew from the night before, had a brief wander around camp – we watched the river and saw a bushbaby in the tree directly above where we were standing before going to bed.