The Kruger National Park is renowned world wide and with good cause. It is the largest game reserve in South Africa. It covers 18,989 square km and extends 350 km from north to south and 60 km from east to west. It is now part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a peace park that links Kruger National Park with the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe, and with the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique. The Kruger Park boasts a staggering diversity of flora and fauna: 336 trees, 49 fish, 34 amphibians, 114 reptiles, 507 birds and 147 mammals. All the Big Five (Lion, Buffalo, Leopard, Elephant and Rhinoceros) game animals are found at Kruger National Park, which has more species of mammals than any other African Game Reserve. The park is divided into six eco-systems: Baobab sandveld, Mopane scrub, Lebombo knobthorn-marula bushveld, mixed acacia thicket, Combretum-silver clusterleaf woodland on granite and riverine forest. Altogether it has 1,982 species of plants.The park is part of the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere, an area designated by the United Nations Education and Scientific Organisation (UNESCO) as an International Man and Biosphere Reserve (the "Biosphere"). The Greater Kruger Park area is vast in size and amazing in its beauty. There are myriad private game parks and concessions in this area and a great many exciting places to visit. Bourkes Luck Potholes, Gods Window, Mac Mac Falls, Blyde River Canyon, Pilgrims Rest, Sudwala Caves and Bridal Veil Falls to name but a few. One could spend two weeks in this stunning part of South Africa and still not have seen everything one wanted to.

Book your Kruger National Park tour now call Moses Gambushe on +27 78 889-4163 or +27 82 865-1763 Kruger National Park.

Diamond Diggers is a budget tour operator that does cheaper tours and safaris to Kruger National Park since 1994, making us one of the very first companies to do affordable tours for backpackers, adventure student travel and overlanding safaris to Kruger park. However, our clients are all international travelers from different income groups, because we offer as much (and sometimes more) than companies that are much more expensive than us. Our clients have the choice of camping or three star bedded accommodation, and all our game drives are done in open sided game viewing vehicles that are built according to the regulations of South African National Parks.

We offer 3 to 6 day tours to Kruger Nationa Park that depart every day. You are welcome to stay at Diamond Diggers Lodge before and after departure.

On the first day we drive via Graskop into the northern Drakensberg mountains, where we stop at God's Window, Bourke Luck Potholes and the Three Rondawels view point in the spectacular Blyde River Canyon, which is the third largest canyon in the world

The first night all our clients stay at Timbavati Safari Lodge, which is a three star lodge as graded by the Tourism Grading Council. Clients doing the camping tour, will stay the night in permanent erected (on wooden platforms) canvas tents with proper single bed mattresses and fitted sheets. Clients doing the bedded accommodation tour will stay in very comfortable chalets with en-suite bathroom. All clients will enjoy a three course dinner, prepared by the lodge's chef. Local kids from the nearby rural area will come to the lodge to sing and dance. These kids work for themselves and not the lodge.

Clients doing the bedded accommodation tour, will stay at Timbavati Safari lodge every night. Clients doing the camping tour will stay in our camp inside Kruger National Park at Maroela Camp close to Orpen Gate, where we also have permanent erected tents on wooden platforms with proper single bed mattresses and fitted sheets. The tents are erected along the fence so that you can see the hyenas and other animals that often walk along the fence at night

To cover every road in this area will take around 5 days of full day game drives. This will give you an idea of how big Kruger National Park is, and how often you will stop for wildlife sightings. Our philosophy is that clients booked our tours to see wildlife, and therefore we spent as much time as possible on game drives (in open game viewing vehicles), searching for as many animal species as possible. We start with game drives shortly after the park gates open, until the gates close in the late afternoon. We will stop for breakfast and lunch at picnic sites inside Kruger National Park, which your guide will prepare.

We also stop at various view points and at hides overlooking waterholes, where you are allowed to get out of the vehicles. Our guides have very good knowledge about the animals, birds and trees. They will tell you all the interesting stories about the animals that you see. Also keep in mind that they know the park very well and knows where to go to find various animal species during different seasons and different times of the day. The guides are so use to looking for animals, and will spot many animals that clients did not see. There is a night drive included for all clients doing our Kruger National Park tours. The night drive departs 45 minutes before the gates close, and returns three hours later. Please note that the night drive is operated by Kruger National Park with their guides and vehicles. It is out of our control if the park decides to cancel the night drive, or if all night drives are fully booked. It does not happen often, but you will be refunded the price of the night drive, if it does happen.

Clients do have the opportunity to book an optional game walk, which we normally arrange for the last morning. Many clients are under the impression that they will see plenty of wildlife during a game walk. This is not true. Game walks are not about seeing animals, it is about seeing the smaller things (like footprints, spiders etc) that you can not see from the vehicle. You will see much more animals during a three hour game drive, than during a game walk. Your guide will stop at least once a day while on game drives at a shop where you can buy drinks etc. There are no shops at our camp in Kruger park, or at Timbavati Safari Lodge (only a bar). Therefore we stop at Orpen Gate for shopping every night just before the gates close. We do have a fridge in our camp, where you can keep your drinks cold.