Nelspruit airport is quite small and the car rentals are located directly after you pick up your baggage.  I requested a small car and got a Chevy Spark Lite. This is probably the smallest car I have ever driven!

I drove from Nelspruit to the Crocodile Bridge gate to enter the park.  Thus was a little over an hour.  The drive is quite scenic as there are rolling hills, but otherwise it’s just freeway driving.

Once you enter the park, you need to cross a single lane bridge with no guard rails on either side.  They have some concrete safety stumps on either side, but plenty are missing!  I’m quite curious to know how many cars end up in that river!

From there it is only about 35km to Lower Sabie where I was spending the night.  It’s a slow drive in the park with a maximum of just 50 km/h, which is good since there seems to be a lot to see.  I first stopped at the side of the road when I saw an elephant in the distance drinking water from a steam.

A little further on, a lot of cars were stopped and I saw 2 giraffes eating leaves from the top of the trees.  Suffice to say, it’s difficult to drive and take pictures, but hopefully I can get some better pictures than the blurry ones I have so far!

I arrived at camp just in time to attend an evening drive.  When you do this, the ranger drives and you are free to take pictures.  The first thing we saw was a lion that was drinking from the stream.  After this, we saw a pride of lions that were sleeping under a tree.  This must only have been 100 metres or so from the truck!

We also saw, among other things, a leopard sleeping in a tree.  At first the ranger found it by seeing it’s tail.  I don’t think I would ever have noticed it.  Eventually it jumped down from the tree and walked across the road in front of us, heading off to find its dinner!

If you ever visit Kruger I would really recommend the drives.  The rangers seem very good at spotting all kinds of things!