{"id":573899047,"date":"2026-05-31T20:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T00:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573899047"},"modified":"2026-07-06T00:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:07:31","slug":"kruger-national-park-safari-part-two-of-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/05\/31\/kruger-national-park-safari-part-two-of-day-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Kruger National Park safari, part two of day three"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is day three of five of this serving as a photo blog. We’ve moved, this afternoon, from one base camp in the park (which is almost the size of New Jersey) to another camp this afternoon. In each we’ve had a little hut that had showers, AC and a kitchenette. We’ve not used those because our guide, Simon, has been making our meals for us. Our job is simply show up on time for a meal or a safari. Then we ride around and see all of these incredible animals and the beautiful scenery they live in. It’s peaceful — perhaps not contemplative, but certainly unhurried — but also exciting. And they say every safari is different. That’s the draw. This morning’s (incredible experience with a leopard<\/a> continued with even more great sightings, and another visit with that leopard, and his recent meal. <\/p>\n

Some of what we saw on our third day in Kruger National Park included:<\/p>\n

\nBaboons
\nWaterbuck
\nNyala
\nGuinea fowl (not pictured)
\nImpala
\nGiraffes
\nHippos
\nEgyptian fowl (not pictured)
\nLeopard
\nBuffalo
\nElephant
\nBurchell\u2019s Starling
\nZebra
\nWildebeest\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This is day three of five of this serving as a photo blog. We’ve moved, this afternoon, from one base camp in the park (which is almost the size of New Jersey) to another camp this afternoon. In each we’ve had a little hut that had showers, AC and a kitchenette. We’ve not used those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,117,116,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573899047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-photo","category-safari","category-south-africa","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573899047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573899047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573899047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573899050,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573899047\/revisions\/573899050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573899047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573899047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573899047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}