Our favourite road from Pretoriuskop was the S7 to the S3 – a dirt road running North from Pretoriuskop, up to the Sabie river and then turning and following the Sabie river up to the Kruger gate near Skukuza. We drove this road a few times during the week we were there, and each time we were rewarded with very special sightings.
The first morning, we can across two youngish elephant in a very playful mode. Wresting and playing in and on both sides of the road!
Later, we saw something really interesting: a Giant Plated Lizard – the largest lizard outside of the monitor lizards! This massive, vividly coloured lizard was quietly hanging out on a large boulder next to the S3, allowing us to get quite a few shots in!
We also managed to tick of quite a few bird species on the route.