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Kruger National Park tours are one of the brightest jewels in South Africa’s tourism crown. The reserve boasts twelve main rest camps that each differ in setting and theme, but retain the level of service and comfort that has become the norm where Kruger Park accommodation is concerned. When travelling with Journey into Africa into the Kruger National Park, most of your stay will be spent in small, thatched huts that are equipped with comfortable beds, en-suite bathrooms and air-conditioners.
At Journey into Africa, we do our best to make all aspects of your Kruger National Park safari tour enjoyable; therefore you have the option of departing either from OR Tambo International Airport (Johannesburg) or from the doorstep of your accommodation in Johannesburg/ Pretoria.
This historical park was fought for in 1898 when Paul Kruger, the then President of the Transvaal Republic, became increasingly alarmed by the declining game numbers in South Africa’s lowveld area and lobbied hard for the establishment of the Sabi Game Reserve. At this stage, his foremost aim was to prevent the area from being chopped up into scores of livestock farms. By 1902, inroads had been made and the 4600 sq kilometres between the Crocodile and Sabie Rivers was proclaimed the Sabi Game Reserve. It was at this time that James Stevenson-Hamilton was appointed as Sabi’s head ranger with the instruction to make himself ‘thoroughly disagreeable’ to poachers, local tribes and farmers who infringed on the reserve’s natural resources. On the 31st May 1926, the Sabi and Shingwedzi Game Reserves - along with farm and mining land in-between - were merged into the Kruger National Park reserve. The world-renowned Kruger National Park, which sprawls across nearly 20,000 sq kilometres of hot, flat, lowveld terrain in the far northeast of South Africa, ranks among the finest game sanctuaries in the world. The land stretches on for miles in each direction, the horizons are far and the great expanses of bushveld remain remarkably unspoiled. Roads, rest camps and other man-made features only account for roughly two percent of the park’s area, the rest is pure wilderness. Thanks to this, few visitors come away disappointed from a Kruger National Park safari tour.
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