The long drive between Upington and the park was broken up by some interesting stops along the way too. We stayed in national park chalets in the park. We stayed in an excelllent B and B in Upington the night before and night after the tour ( Three Gables) and our tour guide (Jakes) picked us up from the B and B at the start and dropped us off there at the end. We took a four night tour from Upington into the Kgalagadi Transfontier Park, with 1 night at Twee Rivieren, 1 night at Nossob, and 2 nights at Mata Mata. We would strongly recommend trying this new safari destination. Our accommodations were very comfortable and the food prepared by Pieter was adequate, delicious and wholesome. Besides, the flora was unique and different in its own right. We were able to see most of these because of Pieter’s keen eye and love of his “Kalari”. Some of the wildlife we got to experience were white browed sparrows, crimson shrike, sociable weaver bird and it unique nesting habits, laughing doves, red eyed bulbul, fork tailed drongo, ostrich families – male, female and several chicks, black shouldered kite, pale chanting goshawk, white back vulture, gemsbok/oryx, red hartebeest, tawny eagle, springbok, black korhan, yellow hornbills, pygmy falcon, several prides of lions including kalhari black mained lions unique to this area, kgalagadi social spiders, yellow mongoose, cape cobra snake, cape glossy starling, giraffes, secretary birds, black backed jackal, kori bustard, red headed finch, cheetah, striped field mouse, meercats, African wild cats, cape fox, wildebeest. ![]() We spent most of our time in Twee Rivieren and Mata-Mata. We got to see and experience Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and its unique wildlife flora and fauna. From before sunrise to after sunset we were on the move. Pieter was born and brought up in the “Kalari” and new it well. This had a lot to do with the quiet, laid back diverse environment and Pieter’s depth of knowledge of the area and rapport we had with each other. The safari turned out to be the most memorable of the safaris we had been on. Our expectations were that this would be just another safari in a different part of South Africa. We selected this area because it was different from the Kruger Park and game parks near Durban that we had experienced earlier on this trip to South Africa. Pieter was there to pick us up at the Upington Airport when we arrived on an early morning flight from Cape Town.
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