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For a truly exotic holiday, renting an apartment in the Kruger National Park in South Africa is a once in a lifetime experience. These safari lodges are traditionally built wooden structures with thatched roofs and all mod cons. While the accommodation in the apartments gives you the thrill of the wild, you are still never far away from the twenty-first century.

There are a number of lodge camps dotted around the Kruger National Park, a 18,989 sq km game reserve that offers an ideal opportunity to track the big five game: lions, leopards, elephants, rhino and buffalo. The camps themselves are protected enclaves and have restaurants, swimming pools, Jacuzzis and outdoor boma, an enclosed fire lit eating area in the heart of the bush.

Situated on the eastern border of Gauteng Province, with Zimbabwe to the north and Mozambique on its eastern border, the park is some 60 km wide and stretches over 350 km in length and now forms part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park and Peace Park between South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe covering 35,000 sq km.

The park provides a wonderful natural environment to observe many of Africa’s wild animals in their own habitat, following centuries old trails, drinking at water holes or relaxing under the massive baobab trees. There are over 15,000 elephants, 17,700 zebras, 1,500 lions and 1,000 leopards that all call this beautiful scrub landscape home.

The Kruger National Park has nine entrance gates that are within easy reach of Pretoria and Johannesburg from the O.R. Tambo International Airport.

Picture courtesy of Rod Inh00d