Leopard near Lower Sabie Rest Camp, Kruger National Park, South Africa

Hi Friends,

If you are ever on a trip to Kruger National Park and doesn’t have too much of time to spend inside the park, then you shall always hit entrance from Paul Kruger Gate and reach Skukuza Rest Camp and take the route towards Lower Sabie Rest Camp but not the main road but the gravel road next to the river.

You will always see the maximum sightings of Big 5 in this area and your trip will end on higher notes with something to take home in terms of good pictures of animals and so many memories of the jungle.

Despite your all efforts and spending so many days inside the camps of Kruger National Park there will be always times when you won’t see any of the big cats so easily and rhinos too.

Leopards are extremely shy and you won’t find them so easily. On my last trip to Kruger National Park, I saw one from far but he quickly went inside the bushes and we waited outside for more than an hour without any success.

It all depends on your luck and the viewing spot where you are and some lucky people have seen it doing the hunt also live in front of their eyes. It all happens in a split second and your vehicle must have crossed the spot while you are checking your GPS. Some people have seen it resting on the top of the tree and staying there for almost an hour or so in the evenings - it all depends on the Luck of the Jungle and their God’s blessing you.

Your eyes are like a search engine and your mind has to be too quick to decipher whether it is an animal or a stone reflecting light like it is an animal. This really takes a toll on your eyes and if you are also driving then it’s really torture. You definitely need some kind of eye tone fluid to put in your eyes at the end of the day else you will suffer from me a headache. I definitely suffered from one and by the afternoon I was so tired of looking and driving that I slept without any dinner that night. All the photos are taken using the Nikon D7000 camera by Local Guides @TheLifesWay inside the Kruger National Park.

Sawubona!

Aashish Rai

#TheLifesWay #PhotoYatra

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@TheLifesWay beautiful siting coming face to face with nature lovely photo

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Thanks a lot @And12-X2

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Cheetah, not leopard