our last full day in the kruger today it's about 120 kilometer drive say around about two and a
half hours on our way to our last rest camp of the trip at berg en dal pouring with rain this morning
just saw a pack of wild dogs outside the gate to lower sabie as we left which was quite a
dream one of the creatures that we've really been hoping to see on this visit now it's just
the leopard we still have to see i would say that they need the rain but they don't really because
rivers are flooded and bridges have been washed away so this area doesn't actually need any more rain
such a privilege to watch this herd of elephants crossing the flooded sabie river amazing how the
big elephants you can see keep the little ones between them to keep them from being washed away
a couple of them did almost come to grief but they all made it to the opposite bank safely
we spent 12 nights in the kruger park and two of the animals that we really wanted to see were the
wild dogs and the leopards the wild dogs we saw right outside the entrance to lower sabie and this
leopard a kilometer or so before the entrance to berg en dal on our final day what a pleasure
our last rest camp of this trip to the kruger berg en dal which is one of the newer
ones apparently it's in the very far south not far from malelane which is where we're
exiting tomorrow only here for one night then tomorrow early early we head home fuel because
we've got an early departure tomorrow actually under cover which is good because it's raining
reception
quite nice
the rhino hall very interesting the difference in the white rhino which is actually a wide lipped
rhinoceros and this is the black rhino
which is the hook lipped rhinoceros the white one is a grazer and the black rhino is a
browser so it eats branches and leaves more than grass and stuff the sightings board
this is the shop
waterhole it's quite cool now there's places you can sit and watch the game it's
probably not going to sit here now because it's raining imagine animals coming
drinking over there we've checked in now we've got to go to our chalet which is number 43.
27 to 44.
there really is so much that's really nice about
berg en dal rest camp the swimming pool is lovely the chalets are really private i mean they're not
bunched together like some of them and it's in a nice spot in the far south of the park
it's brought down a little bit by the grubbiness of the utensils that's our chalet i don't know
about other chalets and that really just talks to management it's not something that can't be fixed
the other thing that i don't enjoy that much is the restaurant there's tindlovu restaurants i don't
really like i can't recommend them that's all you've got in most of the camps apart from lower
sabie and skukuza those are the only options you've got for a restaurant yeah the food is
limited staff is pretty much disinterested apart from that it's a really really nice camp i can
highly recommend it 10 kilometers from malelane gate and it's a good road so really good spot
to stop i can recommend it just bear those couple of little niggles in mind main rest camps not the
bush camps have a laundromat here it is which is really really reasonable to put your coins in
it's like 20 rand per load do you know how your clothes build up you can go to any
laundromat in any rest camp the same with the shops go to any rest camp shop any rest camp
restaurant you don't have to be a resident in the rest camp in order to use the facilities