Category Africa 2026

Johannesburg to Kruger – 5/27/2026

A bird at the rest area

Today we drove from Johannesburg to Kruger, we had several stops along the way and one of those was a rest area that had quite a few animals in fenced fields beyond the shops and far off into the distance.…

Kruger National Park – 5/28/2026

Wildebeaast

I’m combining all of the photos from Kruger into one blog post because they all run together after the fact. Wildebeaast Crocodile Lion Lion Wildebeast Ostrich Ostrich Helmeted Guineafowl Giraffe Impala Impala Giraffe Impala Helmeted Guineafowl Giraffe Giraffe Giraffe Giraffe…

Kruger to Karongwe – 5/29/2026

Warthog

Today we drove from Kruger to Karongwe to do additional game drives. We checked into our “tents” which were elevated on platforms, and had wooden floors, full bathrooms, a nice porch and a sizeable bedroom. You really couldn’t have asked…

Karongwe Day 2 – 5/30/2026

Lions

We had a couple of drives today, a morning and an afternoon one with lunch in the middle back at camp. We got awake up call early in the morning after the guides had walked through camp to make sure…

Karongwe day 3 – 5/31/2026

Leopard

We had one finalmorning game drive this morning before a long drive back to Johannesburg where we will spend the night before a smaller group of us will continue on to Zimbabwe and Victoria Falls. We were lucky enough to…

Johannesburg to Zimbabwe – 6/1/2026

Birds at the hotel

Today we departed our hotel in Johannesburg to the airport for a flight to Zimbabwe., We lost a few people from our group but 8 of us continued on. We took a small local airline easyjet to Zimbabwe but the…

Victoria Falls – 6/2/2026

Our hotel

Today we met Thembie and our driver to go to Victoria falls with a subset of our group. Some of the group had gone to additional game drives in Chobe but we decided to just do the falls and then…

Heading home – 6/3/2026 and 6/4/2026

Our journey home included a flight on Airlink back to Johannesburg, then we picked up some luggage that we had left at the JNB airport so that we didn’t have to carry it to Zimbabwe. We then had a long…