Kruger National Park Safari Guide (2026): Best Time, Where to Stay, How to Safari
Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Kruger National Park, Without the Rookie Mistakes The first time we drove into Kruger, we did it in February, because that was when the cheap flights lined up. Beautiful, green, dripping after the afternoon rains — and we spent two days seeing impala, more impala, and a single elephant’s backside disappearing into the bush. A guide at our camp gently broke it to us: “Come back in winter. The grass dies, the animals come to the water, and you’ll see ten times as much.” He was right. We returned in July, and on the first morning alone we ticked off four of the Big Five before breakfast. ...