We've just left Hoedspruit , the town of Hoedspruit on our way to Africamps at Hoedspruit.
The camp is owned by the Roux family been owned by the last 70 years and the owners there are Monika
and Louwjie. It's only when you get to here that you see the Africamps sign but here we go.
they've got a self book in, so you don't actually need to have any contact with anybody. This is the
second most recent Africamps ,the most recent one is at White Elephant in Pongala in Kwazulu Natal,
and that's a future visit. But this, along with Makkers in Hazyview is unique in its proximity
to the Kruger National Park, and these two camps are an ideal base for exploring the Kruger Park.
So this is our tent, very cool, the wood stove wood burner. This is camping without the hassles,
you can leave all your gear at home like we've done, we've got a whole garage full of it. You can
leave all that at home. This is fully equipped, air-con, hot shower, queen size beds of the lot.
We're not going to be using this, but if you've got kids i think they'd get crazy for this. "I've
got the top bunk, no i've got it". Although it's fully equipped, you've still got the full camping
experience, you've got the smell of the canvas, the sound of the rain on the canvas and that
outdoor lifestyle that comes with camping. Well this is really is right on the water isn't it,
so there are neighbours but they're not that close, there's the next door tent.
Breakfast time so no bar at the moment and it's the Nyala Restaurant. It's
just such an amazing place, I mean look at this! The farm has belonged to the
Roux family since 1948, and then in 2019 they decided to join the Africamps brand
and I for one am so glad that they did. The tents all surround this fairly large farm dam.
This is going to be cool, a hot tub it's a wood heated one so
we'll stoke the fire there and get the hot tub going.
Im super impressed so far, it's really really nice, this setting is just out of this world
not like normal old camping.
W e're having lunch here in Hoedspruit,
it's a working station there's trains going past, really a lot of character.
Going for a game drive now on a big five reserve adjacent to the Kruger Park.
Breakfast this morning, toast and peanut butter, and coffee, and the reason for that is that the
monkeys stole our bananas. They do say "keep the tent closed because the monkeys will get in",
and it was closed, this was open just this little bit at the bottom and yeah they came in.
Stole our bananas!
In the Kruger now, came in at Orpen gate and we're kind of driving along this stretch of the road
now. So we're either going to do this loop and then that one probably something like that.
We'r e having lunch at the Tindlovu restaurant at Satara camp, nice and shady.
Our stay at Africamps Hoedspruit has come to an end, it's been awesome really big thanks to
Louwtjie and Monika and Lloyd.
Birgit is on gate duty
looking very colourful in her red dress. Our next Africamps is
Makkers at Hazyview in two days time because Friday today so they're full, we have got
another lodge that we're going to so there'll be some footage of that but not part of this series.