What is the Greater Kruger National Park?
Adjacent to the Kruger Park are a number of privately owned game reserves. Years ago, the fences between these reserves and the rest of Kruger were dropped, to increase the size of the area under conservation and allow more freedom of movement for the animals. Two examples are the Sabi Sand Reserve and the Timbavati Reserve, both of which share an unfenced boundary with the Kruger Park. The safari experience at a game lodge in the private reserves can differ quite a bit from the safari experience in the rest of Kruger. This is explained futher down in this knol. More recently, agreement was reached between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to create the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park, which seeks to drop fences and combine the Kruger National Park with Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park and Zimbabwe’s Gonarezhou National Park. Game Viewing With 147 species of mammals, the Kruger National Park has the largest diversity of mammals of any national park in the world, including the
