Greater Kruger Park
The Story of a bygone Africa, lived Today
At StoryScape Travel we immerse our guests in a true safari experience. Glorious African landscapes come alive with its magical entourage of mammals, plants, insects, reptiles, and birds. And somehow, the need for excessive luxuries becomes a distant memory, replaced by the sounds, sights, and smells of a true African experience, a recollection of a bygone era. The beginning of a new story.
For the StoryScape traveller we have chosen small intimate, unfenced camps – areas with low densities of tourist vehicles, large wilderness areas and excellent wildlife.
Experienced and passionate game rangers and trackers ensure that your wildlife encounters, either on foot or in an open game drive vehicle, will be exhilarating, educational and above all, safe.
Β The Kruger National Park was first established by the President of the South African Transvaal, Paul Kruger, in 1898. Realising that the Lowveld animals needed to be protected, the area between the Sabie and Crocodile Rivers was set aside for restricted hunting in 1884. Krugerβs revolutionary plan only fully came to fruition in 1898 when the Sabie Game Reserve was established (later to be renamed the Kruger National Park).Β Scottish-born James Stevenson-Hamilton was appointed as the first warden of the park in 1902. Accounts of the early days of game conservation in South Africa can be found in the Stevenson-Hamilton Memorial Library at Skukuza, which houses a collection of ecologically orientated books, paintings and memorabilia and is well worth a visit for the history-orientated traveller.
The Kruger Park covers 19 633 square kilometres and is home to more than 753 species of animals and 1 982 plant species. In 2002 visitor numbers to Kruger topped the one million mark for the ο¬rst time.
During this same year the dream of a transnational park was realised when an agreement was ο¬nally reached between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to merge conservation areas in their respective countries to form the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Once this process is complete the Transfrontier Park will be the biggest game reserve in the world.
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