Hi, guys, my name is Bonga Njajaula, I'm a ranger in the Kruger National Park.
I'm ready to take you out on a safari. Come with me. Let's go.
I'm from the Eastern Cape, I was born in Kenton-on-Sea,
which is east of Port Elizabeth.
I've been chasing the world ever since I was born.
So wilderness is my place of happiness.
As a field guide or ranger, to work in the Kruger park it's so amazing.
Because Kruger is so big. That diversity of all the wildlife, it's so rich.
There're some few impalas up.
Impalas, they’re literally very common and popular in the Kruger Park.
So you see now this is the lamping season at the moment.
You can see there's lots of babies around, it is fantastic.
Look at that!
Oh, that's so cute.
That's interesting. There is a warthog in the center.
That is a martial eagle, so it's one of the largest eagles around here,
and those eagles actually, when they're fully grown,
they can pick up a baby Impala. They specialize in monitor lizards.
You can see the tail sort of dangling on the other side of the tree
of the lizard that he is feeding on.
So this is what we call a flat necked chameleon.
He just literally trying to change color, to blend in with the background of the road.
Because he was on the tree. And then that's where that green came from.
Because they can change color depending on the background.
That's the defensive mechanism.
And then that movement of sort of moving forward and back forward and back.
So they mimicking a branch of leaf being blown away by the wind.
The black will disappear now and then it will start to get a little bit of spots.
Every time I drive in these roads, it's a new day every day.
I mean, look at this vastness of just open.
This is just beauty.
How could you not be happy here.
Welcome to Kruger Shalati, the train on the bridge.
This is where I work. Come with me.
This special lodge, it's amazing because they utilizing what's been there as
part of the history, so to have that actually train with accommodation.
I've been to most places where you actually sit and look at the water,
but not the water actually flowing underneath you.
So it's very, very unique to have that sound of the hippos, of crocodiles, hippos,
the whole the ecosystem here actually running through.
Sometimes you don't need to go for a game drive.
You can just sit outside and literally the wild will come to you. It is fantastic.
It's a sign of hope because last year was a very tough year for the tourism industry.
And then most of my colleagues, they've been laid off their work.
Normally each and every day you estimate about 500, 800 cars driving
through the park every day, I mean, with the lockdown,
barely a single vehicle driving, literally the animals would actually be in heaven.
I could see literally the elephant dung's on the road,
lions sleeping everywhere because there's no one there.
It's like they're begging for the tourists to come back.
I would suggest people they should come and explore Kruger National Park.
This is the best place ever.