7 Giorni di safari fotografico da Kruger a Canyon
Prezzo
Caratteristiche del pacchetto
- 7 Giorni / 6 Notti
- Parco Nazionale Kruger & Panorama Route
- Partenza: Aeroporto KMIA, Hoedspruit o Skukuza
- Ends: Panorama Route
Panoramica
6 days spent travelling through the Kruger National Park, driving from the southern areas, where sightings come regularly, into the central plains around Satara and Olifants, where lion populations are among the highest in Africa, and ending with 1 extraordinary day on the Panorama Route; this exciting tour is for travellers who’d rather see the Kruger all at once rather than in bite-sized pieces.
Caratteristiche del Tour
- Guided morning and afternoon game drives
- Regular stops at available hides and dams
- For all accommodation, accommodation within or adjacent to the Kruger Park will be used (subject to availability)
- A cruise on the Blyde Dam, at the base of the Blyde River Canyon
- A trip along the Panorama Route
- Unless group bookings are made, guests will be joined on tour by other travellers
- Private tours can be arranged by special arrangements
- 1 single traveller is allowed on tour.
- 2 guests are required for the tour to depart
Attività e trasporti
Attività: Daily morning and afternoon game drives, stops at hides and dams along the route, a boat cruise on the Blyde Dam, and a guided drive along the Panorama Route.
Attività facoltative
- No optional activities are scheduled on this tour
Trasporto A safari vehicle for game drives and a luxury, air-conditioned vehicle for the Panorama Route, with a return transfer to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport in Mbombela, Eastgate Airport in Hoedspruit or Skukuza Airport in the Kruger National Park on the last day. Other drop-off points can be arranged on request.
Tariffe
Supplemento Singola: R 81 000.00
A persona in condivisione: R 75 000.00
Alloggio e pasti
On this tour, you’ll be staying overnight at accommodation within or adjacent to the Kruger National Park (all accommodation will be subject availability).
Each camp or lodge is chosen for its location within the region being explored on the day, giving guests the best possible chance of having exceptional sightings.
Each morning on this tour starts with coffee and rusks, followed by a delicious packed breakfast enjoyed out in the bush once the morning game drive is underway.
Lunch gives guests the freedom to choose their own meal or stop along the route, while dinner will be served at the camp or lodge each evening.
Tragitto
- Day 1 – Arrival and entry into the southern Kruger National Park
- Day 2 – Game drives in the southern Kruger National Park
- Day 3 – Game drive to the central Kruger National Park
- Day 4 – Game drives from a central Kruger rest camp
- Day 5 – Game drive onward through the Kruger National Park
- Day 6 – Drive through the park to a lodge outside of the Kruger’s boundary
- Day 7 – Blyde Dam cruise and the Panorama Route
Giorno per giorno
Day 1 – Arrival and the Southern Kruger
This tour begins with a transfer to the Kruger National Park, where the group will enter through one of the southern gates.
The southern Kruger is widely considered the very best area of the park for a safari, as it is home to a variety and abundance of wildlife, with all members of the Big 5 often spotted here. The area has a range of habitats, all of which support a flourishing ecosystem.
Your first drive will start on entry, with your guide choosing the route based on their experience and the most recent sightings. The guides know the bush as well as you know your home, and they will look specifically for signs of animals nearby.
There’ll be a lunch stop at a rest camp or a picnic spot, which will be on your own account, followed by an afternoon game drive as you make your way to the camp or lodge you’ll be staying at this evening.
Day 2 – The Southern Kruger
The best time for a safari is the early morning, just as the day starts to brighten and the wild calls of nature begin to fill the air.
Today, your morning begins before sunrise, well before the gates open, with coffee and rusks to give you enough fuel for the exciting morning ahead.
The sounds of the bush waking up are quite indescribable, and dawn is generally the time when you might come across a pride of lions finishing their evening meal, elephants making their way almost silently through the bush to have their first drink of the day, or hyenas and their pups, stretching and yawning as they leave their den.
The drive continues into the late morning, with a stop for breakfast. Along the way, you’ll visit available hides, where you’ll have waterside sightings and other peaceful experiences.
Following a lunch stop, the afternoon drive will take a different route back to the camp or lodge, where dinner is served later in the evening.
Day 3 – Central Kruger
After 2 days in the Southern Kruger, your luggage will be packed into the vehicle, and after coffee and rusks, you’ll leave your accommodation and take the slow route north to the beautiful central Kruger.
The morning drive is packed full of new sights and new wildlife encounters. The central Kruger is known to have some of the park’s most reliable game viewing.
The open savannah around Satara and Olifants is lion country. The area’s pride density is among the highest in Africa, and early morning game drives tend to include lion sightings.
The scenery in the central Kruger is also vastly different to that of the southern areas of the park. Knob-thorn and marula trees are scattered across the grasslands, which in turn reach out toward the soft, distant hills, giving game drives here a sense of openness, allowing you to see for kilometres around you, especially when standing on one of those hills, at a lookout point.
Herds of buffalo, zebra and wildebeest can often be spotted moving across these plains in huge numbers, drawing the attention of cheetah and wild dog as well as lion.
A short way into your morning drive, you’ll stop at a picnic site or rest camp and have your packed breakfast before your drive continues.
Following a lunch stop, the afternoon drive will take you back to the camp or lodge, arriving in good time for dinner.
Day 4 – Central Kruger
The early mornings continue today, and after having coffee and rusks, you’ll set out just as the gates open.
Your morning game drive will take you through new areas of the central Kruger, allowing you to explore a whole different side of the park, one rarely seen during a typical safari.
During the morning, the tour will stop somewhere comfortable, so you can have your prepacked breakfast, after which you’ll spend the rest of the morning visiting various hides and lookout points, as you travel through the central Kruger.
There’ll be a lunch stop and time to rest and stretch your legs ahead of the afternoon drive that will take you through the surrounding bush, as you head back to your accommodation for dinner and a peaceful evening spent listening to the distant roars of lions.
Day 5 – Onward Through the Kruger
Your luggage is packed once again, ahead of an early start, as today you’ll be heading to a new area of the park.
The route will take you along new roads, and you’ll visit hides, lookout points and dams. Along the way, the group will stop for a hearty packed breakfast enjoyed out in the bush or at a picnic spot.
The late morning continues with further exciting animal sightings, before a lunch stop breaks up the day.
During the afternoon, your game drive will take a route that will lead you to the camp or lodge adjacent to the park where you’ll be spending the evening.
Day 6 – A Last Day in the Kruger
Today is your last morning within the Kruger National Park, and it begins in familiar fashion, with luggage packed and coffee and rusks served before you head out on your early morning game drive.
The drive will take you to the day’s final destination, which may lie within the park or at a lodge just outside of its boundary.
You’ll stop for breakfast and lunch and end the day at the camp or lodge.
Day 7 – Blyde Dam and the Panorama Route
The last day on this tour is totally unlike the rest of your trip.
Rather than a game drive, today you’ll be travelling up into the mountains of the Panorama Route, one of South Africa’s most spectacular road routes.
The day starts with a boat cruise on the Blyde Dam, at the base of the Blyde River Canyon, the world’s only green canyon, where the sight of cliff faces is quite awe-inspiring.
With coffee and a packed breakfast to keep you fuelled, once the cruise concludes, you’ll take the route that climbs high up onto the escarpment to complete the Panorama Route. Along the way, you’ll see the Three Rondawels, God’s Window and Bourke’s Luck Potholes, as well as numerous waterfalls, forests and small towns.
A lunch stop (at your own expense) is included en route, and the tour comes to a close when you are dropped off at the end of the day.
This tour ends after the Panorama Route tour. We highly advise guests to organise transfers and flights for the day after the tour ends to prevent delays.
Inclusions/Exclusions
Inclusioni
- A licenced and professional tour guide (available 24/7)
- A licensed and professional guide on all activities
- Transfers to and from airports or other pre-arranged points
- All entry and conservation fees
- 6 nights’ accommodation in or adjacent to the Kruger National Park
- All meals except lunches as specified
- A boat cruise of the Blyde Dam in the Blyde River Canyon on day 7
- A Panorama Tour of the Mpumalanga Drakensberg Escarpment on day 7
- All drives in Kruger National Park
- Photographic and editing tips sessions by your tour host
- Mineral water on all game drives and activities
Esclusioni
- Bar beverages
- Any items of personal nature or purchases at shops at the lodges or en route
- Gratuities to guides and/or waiters
Raggiungerlo
Pick-ups start as early as 06h00, with the actual time set by that day’s route plan.
Clients will be told their pick-up time and meeting point well before the tour begins.
Transfers from each of the listed departure points are covered in the overall tour rate.
Times may be adjusted if circumstances require it, and any update will be confirmed with clients well ahead of departure.
We don’t arrange accommodation or transport for the period before or after the tour.
Unless a group booking has been made for the tour, departures are shared with other clients.
Offerto da
Wildlife In Focus Safaris has spent 26 years working in the Kruger Park and the surrounding private game reserves. Based in Mpumalanga, this family-run company focuses on photographic and birding safaris in the Kruger National Park and Sabi Sands Private Nature Reserve, with tours kept deliberately small.
This tour is run jointly with Kurt Safari, a Kruger safari operator that has been running safaris for almost 20 years. Kurt Safari is SATSA-accredited, consistently rated the top Kruger safari company on TripAdvisor, and staffed by passionate, knowledgeable local guides.
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What makes this route through the Kruger National Park distinctive?
This itinerary is structured to move at a thoughtful pace through the Kruger National Park, from its southern reaches to its central heart, with hides and dams built into each day’s driving for a wider range of sightings, before concluding with a cruise and scenic drive along the Panorama Route.
Why do the drives begin before the Kruger camp gates open?
Meeting for coffee and rusks ahead of the gates opening allows guests to be among the first vehicles into the park each morning, when the light is at its best for photography and animals are often at their most active.
What can guests expect from the hides and dams in the Kruger National Park?
Hides and dams give travellers a different style of game viewing, where one can settle in stillness beside a waterhole and wait for wildlife to come, rather than seeking it out from a moving vehicle.
What happens on the final day of the tour?
The final day sets aside game drives in favour of a boat cruise on the Blyde Dam, followed by a scenic drive along the Panorama Route, taking in the Three Rondawels, God’s Window and Bourke’s Luck Potholes, before guests are dropped off at the end of the day.
Are lunches included on this tour?
Lunch is on your own account. Coffee, rusks, breakfast and dinner, and mineral water, are included throughout the tour.
