See the Best of the Kruger National Park
Visit the Kruger National Park to see the Big Five

Greater Kruger Park Safari with GO SAfari

The world-renowned Kruger National Park offers a wildlife experience
that ranks with the best in Africa.

Experience the Greater Kruger Park, don't just visit it!

A Kruger Park Safari can be a self drive or guided safari, a Walking Safari, Elephant back safari, fly in safari, honeymoon safari, family safari, horse trail, 4x4 safari, adventure safari or a relaxing well earned safari include a hot air balloon safari or a Spa treatment. Go Safari will arrange your dream safari for you.

A Kruger National Park safari is the true South African Safari.

What makes the Kruger unique is that its biodiversity is unmatched, with 147 species of mammal, 492 of birds and 118 of reptiles, along with 628 types of trees, shrubs and grasses as well as thousands of insects. No other national park in the world can offer this.

There is a larger varity of game lodges from basic bush lodges concentrating on a true bush experience to world class opulent 5 star lodges whit every luxury you may wish for, something to meet any budget and need.Go Safari recommend at least a 4 day visit to the Greater Kruger Park so you can enjoy the experience and not spend most of your safari travelling. If time allows a 5 or 6 day safari is ideal

Go Safari has a standard 4 day safari using very good 4 star lodges but we will custom design you a dream safari to meet your needs.

Join Go Safari on Kruger Park Safari and experience this unique natural heritage which is enjoyed by over 1 000 000 visitors per year.

Our most popular safaris are:
Three Day Safari
Four day standard Kruger Safari
Four day luxury Kruger Safari
Fly Inn luxury Safari
Walking Safari
Elephant Back Safari
Dream safari

The Greater Kruger National Park:

Now that the fences between the Kruger Park and the surrounding privately owned land have been dropped forming The Greater Kruger National Park a genuine big five safari experienced can be experienced at numerous privately owned game lodges that where once "outside" the Kruger Parkand now are "inside" the Kruger Park.

Go Safari only uses selected private lodges in the Kruger Park and Greater Kruger Park or with in privately owned Big 5 reserves. The entire “bush/safari experience” at these lodges is much better, being private lodges the main advantage is there are no public vehicles allowed so all you game drives are on special 4x4 open safari vehicles driven by field guides and on tracks and gravel roads. This allows much better animal sightings, you get closer to the animals and there is nothing more exhilarating than sitting on an open vehicle a few meters from a lion with no other vehicles spoiling the sighting.

These lodges can generally offer good game viewing as the field guides talk to each other and have a fair idea as to where the animals are and know where to look for which species. The accommodation, service and food is far better than that available in the Kruger Park itself.

If guests wish to stay in the Park we will gladly arrange this.

Kruger National Park history

The park was first proclaimed in 1898 as the Sabie Game Reserve by the then president of the Transvaal Republic, Paul Kruger. He first proposed the need to protect the animals of the Lowveld in 1884, but his revolutionary vision took another 12 years to be realized when the area between the Sabie and Crocodile Rivers was set aside for restricted hunting.

James Stevenson-Hamilton (born in 1867) was appointed the park’s first warden on 1 July 1902.

On 31 May 1926 the National Parks Act was proclaimed and with it the merging of the Sabie and Shingwedzi Game Reserves into the Kruger National Park.

The first motorists entered the park in 1927 for a fee of one pound - the then ZAR currency.

Rainy Season:

The subtropical climate has hot rainy summers starting in October and ending around March. The summer rains transform the arid park into a lush flowering paradise, but the increased foliage does make animals harder to see.

Dry Season:

The winter months from April to September are extremely pleasant with warm dry days and cold nights. Traditionally, the best game viewing is in the winter as the vegetation becomes sparse and water is restricted to rivers and water holes.