Having spread out wings to other national parks during 2019, we found ourselves ‘homesick’ for Kruger. But, wanting to keep up the theme of exploring new places, we decided to book at a camp we had never visited before. The choice fell on Pretoriuskop.
Even though I am writing this two years after the fact, I still have a very clear memory of listening to the news on the radio on the way, and hearing that a fourth person in South Africa had been diagnosed with “The Coronavirus”. Nothing could have prepared us for how much the world would change during the week we were in the park, and I will always treasure this trip as a last week of shelter and normality (the only sign of the pandemic were bottles of hand-sanitizer casually placed on the counters in shops) while, unbeknownst to us, the world was all but falling apart back home…
We entered through Malelane gate after 1pm, and just over an hour into the park, we were rewarded with a great opening for our trip – a Leopard in a tree!
