Gates open at 4:30am at the moment but the sun only rises at 5:23am so we really didn't see the point of heading out earlier than that. We woke at 5am and we headed out at about 5:30am. We aimed to do our favorite route - head east toward Mozambique and the Nwanetsi picnic site. The gravel road takes you along the river - you have the river on your right and the open savannah grasslands...

It's our annual sojourn to the Kruger Park. Despite Covid, we have managed to get to the Kruger Park at this time of the year for the last 5 years now. We started for our 25th wedding anniversary and now it has become a tradition for us. We flew into Hoedspruit airport and arrived just after 1pm. We headed straight into Hoedspruit to do some shopping. Helen broke with tradition and didn't have KFC for lunch...