Yago is travelling: Kruger National Park

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The Kruger National Park is now part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a peace park that links Kruger National Park with the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe, and with the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique.

We got up early in the morning (as usual) and headed for the border... you may not know this but crossing the border is something that takes anything between 1 and 2 hours if there is no queue... that's only the time it takes you to do all the paperwork and for them to inspect the vehicle... and the border has opening and closing times so you don't want to get there too early because it's closed nor too late so you would have to spend the night there...

A pity I didn't take any pictures of some of these border crossings... some of them were really picturesque.

Along the way we did one stop at a small village in South Africa in order to get some drinks and food for the next 2 days.

Don't get distracted by the handsome man on the next picture the important bit is the ad for the doctor on the background

Doctor W.J. Mbogo... you can't really read it on this picture but essentially it says Witch Doctor... with a more flourish vocabulary of course...

Below is all of us in the bus on our way to the famous Kruger National Park
and me experimenting with the black and white filter of my camera

We took a break before we started, remember we had been travelling for a while before we reached the park.

It was a freezing cold day, I remember that because we lifted all the windows in the bus in order to be able to take pictures, we were all wearing our coats and it was still cold...

You can probably appreciate the different levels of hypothermia on our faces here

Something I found quite remarkable about this park was that after coming from the wild where all animals run off when they hear your vehicle coming, here they just keep going and is like they didn't notice you. There are used to cars... That's why you could never have the chance to take any of the following pictures.

At first we thought it was some kind of accident and someone had run over some animal but when we got closer

and closer

We realised that these lazy hyenas were taking a nap in the middle of the road because the road was nice and warm...

You can rarely get so close to a wild hyena

I think she was really considering whether to jump at me or not... she looks like she's thinking about it... doesn't she?

We managed to see quite a few more animals but after a few weeks in Africa you stop taking pictures of zebras, wildebeest, giraffes, etc because you already have lots of them... you are only interested in the difficult to spot animals like lions, leopards, cheetahs etc...

Elephants are always majestic, specially if they look upset as the one below

And we saw our first buffalo here too

Seriously, if you come to Africa make sure you get a pretty good camera with a good telescopic sight or most of your pictures will look like above... some brownish thing moving away from you...

And while we were on the Kruger National Park we crossed the tropic of Capricorn