The Kruger National Park and private game reserve spreading over an area of nearly two million hectare, contains a variety of wild life including the 'Big 5'.

Kruger National Park was named after Paul Kruger president of the old Transvaal. He endeavoured to instigate legislation to conserve wildlife. The park is one of fourteen of the greatest reserves in the world and the largest in Southern Africa. In May 1926, the National Parks Act merged two Game Reserves into the Kruger National Park. The park is 18,989 square km (7,332 sq mi) and extends 350 km (217 mi) from north to south and 60 km (37 mi) from east to west.

The Kruger National Park is boardered by Mozambique in the east, Zimbabwe to the north, Swaziland in the south and two of South Africa’s provinces namely, Northern Province and Mpumalanga .

The best way to enjoy and experience the Park is to visit early morning and late afternoon when the animals are going to the waterholes and are most active. Plan your trip into the park with regular stops at waterholes and see what comes along, but respect the rights of the animals. Don’t forget the hat, water, camera, sun block and binoculas. Who knows you might be lucky and see the big five.

Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga, meaning ‘Place of the rising sun’, with cascading waterfalls, beautiful misty mountain passes, archers of pine forest, animals galore …..And of cause the 'Big five'.

Mpumalanga stretches from the Highveld grasslands and greater Drakensberg escarpment to the tropical Lowveld, with Nelspruit home to the Provincial Administration Capital,

An important stop en route to Kruger and many private game reserves, and to Maputo in Mozambique.

Nelspruit is also the wild horse town of Kaapsehoop and has the tranquil Lowveld National Botanical Garden that offers spectacular scenery to its visitors.

Mpumalanga offers so much to the tourist, it's world famous and probably the province’s main tourist attraction, the Kruger Park. Most visitors spend a day or two in the Kruger Park.

The Blyde River Canyon

This is a must to see and experience. Bourke’s Luck Potholes mark the beginning of the Blyde River Canyon and God's Window with its magnificent endless view from where the Kruger Park could be seen in the distance to the west, Lisbon Falls, near Graskop, the beautiful Berlin Falls and the Blyde River Canyon are all just a short distance away.