Kruger National Park safari is a 3 day South Africa safari that takes you to Kruger National Park. On this 3 day Kruger National Park safari tour package, you’ll also visit Sabi Sand Game Reserve.

About The 3 Day Kruger National Park Safari

Embark on a 3-day African safari tour to Kruger and Sabi Sand. This makes you feel as if you are back in time to an exploration eras. Those were the days when Western explorers discovered an untamed Africa.

3 Days Kruger National Park Safari Tour Highlights:

This 3 day South African Safari highlights focuses on wildlife with game drives in Kruger National Park in South Africa.

• Great African wildlife game drives
• Beautiful Scenery, topography and landscape
• Nature walk
• Big Five Tracking

There were many wildlife animals roaming in abundance. Your 3 day Kruger National Park safari tour starts and ends in Johannesburg. The highlight of the 3 days Kruger National Park safari package in South Africa is wildlife viewing.

3 Days Kruger Safari Tour Itinerary

Day 1: Johannesburg – Sabi Sand Game Reserve

You will be met at your hotel in Johannesburg by our South African safari representative. He will brief you on this 3 day Kruger National Park safari package. You will then depart making your way towards the Tydon Safari Camp.

This South African safari camp is situated at Shaw’s Gate. This is at the entrance gate to the World renowned Sabi Sand Game Reserve. You will have time to check into your room and freshen up. This will be followed by an evening game drive in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve.

A campfire in the boma welcomes you back after dark. You’ll be served with beverages before you sit down for dinner. You’ll enjoy a well-prepared dinner under stars. You may opt to have it in the main dining area.

About Kruger National Park

Lying in the heart of the Lowveld is a wildlife sanctuary like no other, its atmosphere so unique that it allows those who enter its vastness to immerse themselves in the unpredictability and endless wilderness that is the true quality of Africa.

The largest game reserve in South Africa, the Kruger National Park is larger than Israel. Nearly 2 million hectares of land that stretch for 352 kilometres (20 000 square kilometres) from north to south. This is along the Mozambique border, is given over to an almost indescribable wildlife experience. Certainly, it ranks with the best in Africa and is the flagship of the country’s national parks.

The Kruger National Park lies across the provinces of Mpumalanga and Limpopo in the north of South Africa, just south of Zimbabwe and west of Mozambique. It now forms part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.

This is a peace park that links Kruger National Park with game parks in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and fences are already coming down. This is to allow game to freely roam in much the way it would have in the time before man’s intervention. When complete, the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park will extend across 35 000 square kilometres. It will be portioned as 58% of it South African, 24% Mozambican and 18% Zimbabwean territory.

Day 2: Kruger National Park Safari Game Drive

Your 3 day Kruger National Park safari tour will start early today. This is to witness to a breath-taking array of golden and red colors. This happens as the sunrise shines its rays over the African wilderness. You will enjoy a cup of coffee or tea. This is served at the main Lodge area.

Your 3 day Kruger National Park safari package will embark on a morning game drive. Today you will be in the Kruger National Park. You’ll be in search of wildlife animals to view and photograph. You’ll return back to Tydon Safari Camp it time for a mid-morning breakfast.

Your 3 day Kruger National Park safari will then take a break for relaxation and meditation upon what you have seen during the heat of the day. This time can be spent by the pool-side or on a leisure walk around the Camp.

You’ll have your light lunch served between 1230hrs and 1400hrs. This will be followed by an afternoon game drive at 1500hrs. You will comb Kruger National Park for its wildlife animals, bird species, fauna, and flora. These will certainly leave you feeling enriched and most certainly rewarded. You will return to your lodge in time for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Kruger – Johannesburg

This is the last day of your 3-day Kruger National Park safari. You will depart after breakfast and check out. Today your 3 day Kruger National Park safari will head back to Johannesburg.

This drive takes you via Gods Window, Lisbon Falls, and Graskop. You will stop en-route for lunch which is at cost. You are expected back to Johannesburg at approximately 1730hrs.

You will end your 3 day Kruger National Park safari with a drop-off. This can either be at your hotel or the airport for departure.

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3 Days Kruger Safari Tour Costs:

What is included in the 3 Days Kruger National Park Safari Tour Cost?

• Accommodation in a Kruger national park safari lodge on full board basis
• Transport in a 4 X 4 Safari vehicle with pop up roof
• Meals on full board basis while on 3 Days Kruger National Park Safari Tour
• All park entrance fee
• All Government tax

3 Days Kruger National Park Safari Tour Price excludes:

• Visa
• Items of personal use
• Deviation from the above program
• Drinks and beverages
• Tips and porterage

What to Carry on the 3 Days Kruger National Park Safari Tour

• Sun glasses
• Light and some few heavy clothing
• Sun screen
• Insect repellant
• Hat
• Comfortable shoes

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4 Day Kruger National Park Safari Destination

The Kruger National Park is one of the biggest National Parks in Africa. 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari  takes you to the North-Eastern tip of South Africa and spans over the Mpumalanga and Limpopo province.

The parks surface area spans 19633 km² as many of the surrounding private reserves have removed their fences, allowing wildlife to roam freely between reserves. This has created a wildlife area like no other, as its beauty soaks itself into anyone who visits on the 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari this diverse place.

Kruger National Park is the flagship of wildlife tourism in South Africa and one of the world’s favorite safari destinations. Located in the heart of the safari hub in the north-eastern corner of the country, the iconic national park offers visitors 2-million hectares of unrivaled beauty and outstanding fauna and flora diversity.

There’s something for everyone on the 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari in the vast protected wilderness region, whether you’re a wildlife enthusiasts, avid birder, nature lover or just yearning to swop busy city life for the peace and tranquility in beautiful bushveld surrounds.

Kruger Park and its exclusive neighbor, Greater Kruger, spans the boundaries of the Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces and shares a border with Zimbabwe and Mozambique. It’s one of the largest protected wilderness areas on the continent and certainly one of the most diverse.

Brief History of the park

The Sabie Game Reserve (as it was then known) was proclaimed in 1892 by the president of the Transvaal Republic, Paul Kruger. The area between the Sabie and Crocodile Rivers were initially set aside for restricted hunting and in 1902 James Stevenson-Hamilton was appointed the first warden.

In May 1926 the Sabie and Shingwedzi Game Reserves were combined to create the Kruger National Park. There are nearly 254 cultural heritage sites in the Kruger including rock art sites.

Homo erectus (early humans) roamed the area between 500 000 and 100 000 years ago and cultural artefacts have been found from 100 000 to 30 000 years ago.

There is lots of evidence of the San and Iron Age people who lived on these lands 1500 years ago and there are historical tales of the Nguni and European explorers and settlers in the Kruger area.

Sections of Interest when on the 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari

Southern Kruger Park

Southern Kruger is bound by the Crocodile River in the south and Sabie River in the north. The bushveld is lush and there are many permanent water sources, which means the southern area has one of the highest concentrations of animals in the Park.

On the 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari here you’ll see excellent sightings of the Big 5 in the southern zone with guaranteed sightings of lion, rhino and large herds of elephant and buffalo in the triangle of Pretoriuskop, Lower Sabie and Pretoriuskop.

There are fewer lions in the southern region as they tend to follow the large herds of antelope that favour the central region.

Central Kruger Park

Central Kruger Park is the largest area of the national park and makes up 30 percent of the surface area. It lies between Sabie River and Olifants River. This stretch of bushveld gets higher rainfall which means sweeter grass for grazing and a plenty of browsing trees. This in turn attracts an abundance of antelope as well as giraffe, zebra and wildebeest.

With a plenty to eat, central Kruger is also known as the ‘Big Cat Capital of Kruger’ and is worth a visit on the 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari.

This eco-zone supports nearly half of the Park’s lion population as well as strong numbers of leopard, hyena and cheetah. It’s estimated that there are at least 60 individual prides of lion in central Kruger.

Northern Kruger Park

Northern Kruger is vastly different from southern and central Kruger Park and attracts a different set of wildlife and nature lovers. It’s receives very little annual rainfall and is semi-arid and stark. It has its own appeal though, with vast barren landscapes dotted with shrub mopane.

A redeeming feature of northern Kruger is five major rivers forge a path across the valley, the two notable rivers being Olifants and Letaba. These permanent water sources create a tapestry of lush riverine forests and attract animals to their fertile river banks.

Game viewing on 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari along the river banks is fantastic and you’ll likely to see leopard in the massive sycamore fig, tamboti and apple leaf trees that line the banks.

Far North Kruger Park

Far North Kruger is remote and far to reach so it’s one of the quietest sections of the Park and popular among avid nature lovers for its pristine, untouched wilderness when on 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari. It’s also the “Birding Capital of South Africa”, if not the whole of southern Africa.

This outstanding eco-zone centres on Punda Maria Rest Camp and Pafuri Camp, and extends to the far reaches of Kruger Park to its neighbors Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The concentration of animals is lower than anywhere else in Kruger Park but its reputation for outstanding birding makes up for it in spades.

What’s not to love about Kruger Park?

We share 10 interesting facts you need to know before embarking on the 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari

1. Kruger Park is the largest and oldest national park in South Africa. There are 21 state-supported national parks in the country which are managed by the South African National Parks (SANParks). Kruger Park is South Africa’s flagship national park and an iconic safari destination.

1. Kruger Park is massive. It covers an area of 20 000 square kilometres (2 million hectares) which makes it the same size as Israel as and slightly smaller than Belgium. The Park is 360 kilometers long and 65 kilometers wide.

1. South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique meet at the most-northerly point of Kruger Park where the Luvuvhu and Limpopo rivers converge at Crookes Corner in the Pafuri triangle. If you stand at Crookes Corner looking north; Mozambique is on your right, Zimbabwe is straight ahead and South Africa is behind you.

1. Kruger Park is almost 100 years old. It was proclaimed a ‘no hunting zone’ in 1898 and eventually proclaimed a national park in 1926. It came about through the merge of Sabie and Shingwedzi game reserves. The first tourist who entered Kruger Park in 1927 was charged an entry fee of £

1. There is evidence that humans occupied the wilderness region over one-and-a-half million years ago. Archaeologists have unearthed tools and artifacts that date back to the Stone Age, including significant rock painting sites. Thulamela in the far north is a stone-walled site built over 500 years ago and dates back to the Iron Age.
2. The national park was named in honor of Paul Kruger, the president of the former Transvaal Republic. Kruger fought hard to have the wilderness area proclaimed a national park and for its precious natural resources to be protected from unchecked hunting and rampant poaching. It took 12 years from when Paul Kruger first tabled the notion in parliament to the region finally being proclaimed.

1. Colonel James Stevenson-Hamilton was the first game warden appointed to oversee the running of what would become Kruger Park. At the time it was Sabie Game Reserve. The former Scottish cavalry officer fought in the Anglo Boer Ware before taking up his role of warden in 1902.

Stevenson-Hamilton worked tirelessly for 44 years on establishing Kruger Park as a world-class tourism and conservation entity. His journals are housed in the Stevenson-Hamilton memorial museum at Skukuza Rest Camp.

1. Each year, almost 1 million people visit Kruger Park and at least 80% are South African holidaymakers. Visitors are spoilt for choice for places to stay in Kruger Park. There are 21 SANParks-run establishments and 15 luxury safari lodges that form part of a collection of private concessions in Kruger Park.

1. Kruger Park is home to the famous Big 5 which includes elephant, buffalo, rhino, lion and leopard. But that’s not all! The national park is world-renowned for its outstanding biodiversity, prolific birdlife and vast array of wildlife. Combined, Kruger National Park and Greater Kruger represent one of the finest and most diverse biospheres in Africa.

The vast protected wilderness region is the core of the Kruger2Canyons (K2C) and Vhembe UNESCO Man and Biospheres, and the heart of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area (GLTP Treaty, 2002).

1. Kruger Park is the only national park in Africa that has its own international airport and golf course. Skukuza Airport serves scheduled and charter flights from African safari destinations like Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Skukuza Golf Club has a 9-hole golf course that lies on the banks of the Sabie River. It’s not fenced so it’s not uncommon for golfers to tee off with buck, giraffe and zebra on the fairways.

Accommodation on the 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari

Lower Sabi Rest Camp – Southern Kruger

Lower Sabie is large, lush and one of the most popular rest s in Kruger. It’s located about a 1.5-hours’ slow drive from Crocodile Bridge Gate in southern Kruger. The historic rest camp has been extensively renovated to bring it up to modern standards and the surrounding area is rich in game.

Lower Sabie is a family-friendly rest camp, geared for 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari visitors on self-catering holidays in Kruger. It’s very popular and is also difficult to get into on short notice.

Skukuza Rest Camp – Southern Kruger

Skukuza Rest Camp is the largest and busiest rest camp in Kruger which does put some people off but it’s the central hub of the Park and located in an area teeming with animals and birds.

Daily sightings of the Big 5 for those on 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari and an abundance of antelope and plains game are common.

Skukuza is easily accessible for day tours and short 3-day Kruger safaris. It’s also the best Kruger rest camp for families with children on safari  because there’s so much to do in the camp in between game drives.

Skukuza accommodates up to 1 000 visitors in self-catering bungalows, family cottages and guest houses and has two excellent eateries for those who don’t want to cook and clean up.

Shingwedzi Rest Camp – Northern Kruger

Located in northern Kruger, Shingwedzi Rest Camp is a quieter camp but still hugely popular. The rustic rest camp retains much of its original charm and is relatively unspoilt by modern technology.

Staying at Shingwedzi while on the 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari is all about immersing yourself in the peace and tranquility of beautiful bushveld surrounds.

Lying nestled on the banks of the lush Shingwedzi River, the accommodation is laid out in two adjacent rings. Visitors have a choice of bungalows, traditional Kruger rondavels, family cottages and a semi-luxury guesthouse.

Imbali Safari Lodge

Imbali Safari Lodge has 12 spacious private suites. Each suite has a private wooden deck and plunge pool and overlooks the N’waswitsontso riverbed. Activities for those on 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari here include daily morning and evening game drives, guided bush walks and spa treatments in the comfort of your private suite.

Jock Safari Lodge

Jock Safari Lodge offers luxury safari accommodation on what was the first private concession in the Kruger Park. The luxurious safari lodge exudes old-world charm combined with the distinctive character of the Zulu and Shangaan cultures.

Lukimbi Safari Lodge

Lukimbi Safari Lodge is a 5-star luxury safari lodge located in southern Kruger on the largest concession in the national park. With only one deluxe safari lodge operating in a private area that spans 15 000 hectares, guests on 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari staying at Lukimbi Safari Lodge are guaranteed the ultimate exclusive safari experience.

The Outpost

The Outpost is located in the extreme north of the Kruger Park in the Makuleke region which is bordered to the north by the Limpopo River and Zimbabwe and Mozambique to the east. It offers 4 Day Kruger National Park Safari guests luxurious accommodation in a spectacular setting which is renowned for its incredible biodiversity and prolific birdlife.