We were up at 5am and heading out the gates at 5:20am. Sunrise was actually 5:30am only - gates actually open at 4:30am in January but I saw no point in driving around in the dark. We decided to drive east toward the Mozambique border. The road is one of the best roads in the KNP for lion sightings and we were not disappointed. Not far down the road we added buffalo - Big 5 number...

H & I left for the Kruger National Park today. It is our 3rd year in a row that we have done a Jan/Feb KNP trip - it is becoming a 'must-do' holiday for us now. We are not generally given to tradition but this might just be one tradition we have to keep going forward. We left Cape Town on a 10:50am flight to Hoedspruit which is right in the heart of game parks. There...