The Kruger National Park is huge, about 350km from North to South and covers an area of two million hectares and is home to an astonishing array of wildlife, including 147 species of mammals, 500 types of bird and 33 types of amphibian. The flora is equally diverse with 300 difference types of trees. All the big game can be found here including lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant, hippo, giraffe, rhino and buffalo. The Southern section of the Kruger National Park is the most popular as it has the richest diversity of habitats and animal life.
The Park attracts more than 750,000 visitors annually and caters for day-trippers and well as overnight guests and campers. The Kruger Park has 21 rest camps, as well as 7 private lodge concessions, and 11 designated private safari lodges. The concessions are parcels of land operated by private companies in partnership with communities, who outsource the operation of private lodges. Accommodation, apart from camping, must be pre-booked through the National Parks Board.
The park offers numerous organised wilderness trails as well as ranger guided day and night safaris in open vehicles. All the main camps have petrol stations and shops. Skukuza is the biggest rest camp and has a large information centre, a bank, post office as well as a photo developing service and vehicle workshop.
Because if it's sheer size and diversity, it is almost easier to list the African wildlife that is not in the Kruger National Park, than what you can see! With about 145 mammal species from the mighty Elephant, hippopotamus, rhino and buffalo, to the tiny Four-toed Elephant-shrew and pretty much everything else in between.
Most people who go on safari aim to see Africa's Big 5 animals, and with an estimated 2 thousand Lions, 12 thousand Elephants, 5 thousand Rhinos (black and white) and approximately 1 thousand Leopards, the Kruger Park is definitely a good place to start.
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