Kruger Park

Kruger Park is South Africa's biggest game reserve occupying an area about the size of New Jersey.  This page contains some pictures from within the park.

A Baobab tree is a symbol of Africa.  Most of these trees have little to no leaves which makes them look like an upside down tree, with its roots protruding upward into the sky.  Most of these trees look like they are dead but in fact they are living and thriving.  The Baobab tree can live for thousands of years.

There are several rivers that flow through the park.  These are filled with hippos and crocodiles.  Other animals, of course, like the buffalo and elephants below enjoy the rivers on hot days.

Kruger Park has over 8500 elephants.  Culling of whole breeding herds is common to keep the population down.  This is necessary to protect the other wildlife that is in the area.  There is a lots of vegetation in about 80% of the Park that the elephants feed upon.  We did not see any severely devastated areas in the park resulting from the elephants.

Birds are very common in the park.  They claim that there are more species of bird in the park that in the U.S. and Canada combined.  The Ground Hornbill, with its red face is shown below.

White rhino can be seen in the park, but there are only about 2500 of them.  Black rhino are hardly ever seen.

There are only about 2500 wild dogs in the world remaining.  Kruger park has about 300 of this endangered species.  The dogs have been killed off by humans as well as other animals.  This pack of four dogs was on a hunt.

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This page was last updated on 03/27/02.