Timeless Kalahari
The lot world of the Kalahari, or “great drying up” in the local Tswana stretches 1,500 kilometres across the centre of southern Africa, cut through in its southern regions by the muddy Orange River as wends its way through the dryness, at one point swirling down an 18 kilometre long sequences of rapids and gorges known as the Augrabies Falls.
Although arid, the semi desert sustains scattered patches of sweet grass, which provide succulent grazing for large numbers of antelope, as well as cover for animals such as the shy African wildcat. It is a close relative of the domestic cat, which is known to have been tamed in North Africa from as early as 3000BC. Springbok graze in large numbers on the thirstlands. The dry pan they gathered around will fill rapidly should the showers come, softening the ground. Kruger National Park
The Kruger National Park, the pride of South Africa’s wildlife sanctuaries, lies in the hot bushwillow, acacia and Mopane tree lowveld 250 kilometres inland from the Indian Ocean, covering a stretch of land to the west of the Limpopo River 350 kilometres long. The Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania, the Central Kalahari in Botswana and the Namib-Naukluft in Namibia are all twice its size but the Kruger is probably the most sophisticated and best organized park in the whole of Africa. It has superb ecological and research departments and a long history of conservation leadership.
Kruger with its network of good roads, easy access and luxury safari camps, is one of the best places in the world to view the full spectrum of Africa’s treasury of game. 
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