When visiting the Kruger Naitonal Park, one can never have an expectation of what to see. You can spend hours in the park and not see a single creature, or you can have the most incredible road-side sightings. Now, thanks to the team at Latest Sightings who have developed an e-guide based on a map of Kruger, so that you can plan your routes based on hard data.
Latest Sightings is a community for Kruger National Park visitors tht has developed an e-guide based on other visitor sightings. People can ‘ting’ (the equivilent of pinging or pinpointing a location) in their sightings for other visitors to use. The tings come from sightings all around the park and can be extremely helpful when you are in particular areas or if you have been experiencing a slow day.
Although sightings are still not guaranteed, the information highlights outes that have experienced high volumes of particular animal traffic, giving you the chance to potentially cross paths with an illusive leopard or a hungry wild dog.
Latest Sightings has received thousands of tings for animal activity with the Kruger National Park. Along the H4-1 between July and December, 1072 tings of lion sightings were recorded and these are included in the e-guide. Areas and roads where certain animals prefer to frequent can be identified using the guide, based on the amount of times each animal was tinged.
The guide includes a checklist, so that visitors can keep track of every animal they have seen during their visit. Additionally, the e-guide will give you best times and the best camps to visit for each predator. If you are currently in the Kruger National Park or are planning to visit in the park in the near future, download the e-guide here.
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