KrugerPark.com Reviews

Wonderful experience and its truly a place of tranquility

Great experience if you're looking to disconnected from the world and reconnect with nature.

My absolute favorite place on this planet. There is still real nature and animals here that have become extinct elsewhere. Definitely visit !!!!!

Great, animal approach, great diversity, unforgettable memories.

I love the natural beauty of the place is very beautiful

Definitely a must see went in at Crocodile bridge Gate on the road to Lower Sabie saw the big five and some magnificent birds. The roads were in god condition that includes the dirt roads as well.

The top. The satisfaction of having a self drive safari is priceless. We spotted all 5 Big Five in two days. Wonderful experience.

best place for a holiday,enjoy good safari with family and friends.very hospitable and very welcoming staff especially the phalaborwa gate and letaba rest camp

I love Kruger National Park! It is the best place to see all the animals you like

Great place to go and relax.Vissit Skukuza for good food . Good view points

BRILLIANT three day tour from the centre to the south end of the park, crocodile bridge exit . Great experience saw most animals Missed out on Leppard.

So nice to see the animals happy and healthy in their natural habitat rather than cooped up in a zoo or "animal sanctuary"!

Super hit park in word this park is very big kruger national park

Always a pleasure to visit.
Self drives are fun with the right company. Be sure to stay hydrated & plan your bathroom breaks.

The is no swimming pool for day visit at Olifant camp and no Braai places for day visit at Sahara camp. The places is very beautiful

The park is amazing and I loved being there only for my second visit.
The bad part of the park is the people. The visitors. Sure there are exceptions, but generally I felt that ppl are very selfish then I came to viewing animals.

Another big problem are staff that speeds coming into work in the mornings or leaving at night to go home. Taxis and private cars alike! Shocking to see that from ppl working there! Even official cars speed around the park.

Another pain was the Safari vehicles. Also speeding alot, parking on the wrong side of the road, obstructing animal sightings, and crowding out other cars. Shame of you!

Enjoy the back roads, keep an eye out for the same animals and birds, it's a great park.

BE patient and take your time, there's alot of idiots there. Be safe!

Stunning!!! The road between Campocosa and Camp Lavar is amazing and full of animals throughout the day !!

An experience like no other! Also, the staff at all the camps and gates were impeccable: professional, friendly, helpful and went out of our way to make our experience a good one. Thank you!

Magic as always. Fond memories of the African bush.

Wild life the best. Maintainance poor on infrastructure

Exceeded all
our expectations by a naval mile, saw a rhino and its cub walk towards s family of elephants, overseen by giraffes.all thanks to our wonferful driver Lucky. Me and my family had "dinner in the bushes" which i highly recommend. Nature at its best and staff working here happy and helpful.

Kruger is a fantastic place to view wildlife -- you've of course got the Big Five (lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo), but there's so much more than just those to see; just to name a few: giraffes, hippos, impalas, zebras, kudus (the symbol of Kruger Park), warthogs, cheetahs, hyenas, jackals, crocodiles, and many more.

There are basically two ways you can do this, each with their advantages and disadvantages:

1. Self drive. You come in with your own car, either on a day pass, where you have to make sure to be out before the gates close in the evening (or be prepared to pay a hefty fine), or on an overnight pass, when you've booked accommodation in one of the public rest stations. The big advantage here is the price, as this is the cheapest option. The disadvantage is that you have to find the animals yourself. Everyone will see SOME animals of course, although it will be much more difficult to spot some of the more elusive ones (lions, leopards, cheetahs, etc). You basically just have to be lucky enough to be in the right spot at the right time. Even if you are though, chances are there will be quite a few other self-drive visitors at the same spot trying to see the same animal at the same time (forming mini traffic jams around such a spot). Note that you're not allowed to exceed 50 km/h or go off-road anywhere in the Park.

2. Private lodge. This is a more expensive option, but if you can afford it, don't even hesitate. In one of these, everything is taken care of for you. From accommodation to meals to game drives with an experienced guide. The advantages here are many-fold -- the guide knows where to take you to have the best chances of seeing the animals you want to see, and is allowed to go off-road (albeit only within the confines of the lodge concession, which are usually very large areas) to "chase" the more elusive animals. You will also usually be alone when viewing animals, although the rangers within the lodge communicate "interesting" finds to one another within the lodge area, so if your ranger finds, say, a leopard, he/she will let the others know, and you'll probably get 1 or 2 other game vehicles joining you -- but it's usually off-road with plenty of space for each of the 2-3 vehicles to position themselves strategically around the animal(s) to give the people in the vehicles a good view, and not like the huge traffic jams that form on the public Park roads outside the private lodges, with everyone trying to catch a glimpse of whatever it is the others are all looking at.

Either way, I'm sure you'll enjoy Kruger and what it has to offer. A safari in Kruger National Park is definitely an experience to remember!

Best place in Africa to get back to the wild, and yourself

Seen the big 5. Alot of driving but a wonderful experience

Good to visit unfortunately I visit raining morning

Phenomenal experience every time I've been to the park. Always seen many animals in their natural habitat.

Magnificent experience. Big crush (and probably luck) for the road between Orpen Gate and Skukuza.
I recommend the morning walk in the camp you want. Conversely, the sunset drive is of no interest if you have already seen a lot of animals during the day.

Best big 5 reserve in the world in terms of infrastructure and accessibility. Accomodation to suit all budgets and tastes

Superb park, with good infrastructure and maintenance. The guide and safaris system is top notch

One of my favourite places on earth. However, the Parks Board needs to take responsibility for educating foreign visitors on how to behave around elephants.

Things are mostly functional but delapedated. The lack of general maintenance is visible. In a few years it will collapse and require millions to repair.

Just rent a car and stay at the camp inside the park!

Gem in Southern Africa. A must visit for local and international travelers. Easy to spot game and great fun for the kids. Camps are well positioned and are ideal pit stops.

Absolutely incredible place! Hands down one of the best national parks in the world. Abundance of wildlife is unfathomable. In 1 mile you can see 10-20 different species of animals and variety of landscape. Facilities are world class, especially the Skukuza lodge area. Roads are well maintained with markers and very limited signage to keep it natural. Would recommend a evening safari as the sunsets are amazing over the vast bush.

Awesome view of wild animals in a peaceful environment

In a total natural habitat you see wild animals living naturally. W/O fear of humans.

The lower part of the Park, awarded us with wonderful sightings of the big Five

Awesome!! Highly recommended! To enjoy all the animals in their natural habitat

Saw big five in one day. Amazing. Roads were great. Can easily self drive in regular car.

The staff at Kruger are fantastic.From reception, gate, shop, camp, fuel stations all are friendly effecient. SPECIAL mention Rodger & Alina at Tendze camp
who showed us barred and scops owls in camp.

Always enjoy our visits to Kruger Park. Day visit but saw lots of elephants, various buck, a brown hyena, a leopard and herd of buffalo plus birds and reptiles.

I don't know how to describe it ... unbelievable. The madness. So cool. Sometimes you would have to look for the animals, but hey ... the animals are not looking for you, we are looking for them ;-) We drove in our own car and were only in the southern part of the park. It's really sprawling, I never thought. You can drive 50km / h on the tar roads, only 40km / h on the gravel roads, but honestly ... we didn't drive more than 20km / h with the rental car, otherwise everything would have broken. But as we saw many animals, they always stopped when other cars stopped. Unfortunately we lacked the leopard, otherwise the Big 5 would all be complete. In any case, take binoculars with you, we could only see the lions from a distance. A SLR with zoom is only recommended, because otherwise it will be difficult to take photos. I was excited! Ps: we were two days in the Berg en Dal, very nice (including kitchen), but that was definitely not enough. Next time they take two days in the south and two days in the north, otherwise you won't be able to do everything.

I Have Experienced The Love Of Nature, Seeing Big Five Was The Best Experience.

Do it! at least once in your life, totally worth it.