All photos below have been taken during a trip in Kruger National Park in South Africa in August 2025. We spent 12 days there, from the far North (Punda Maria, Pafuri, Crook corner) to the far South (Lower Sabie, Crocodile bridge, Berg-en-Dal).

THE BIG FIVES

African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) 

African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) 🐘

Leopard (Panthera pardus) 🐆

Lion (Panthera leo) 🦁

White (square-lipped) rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) 🦏

OTHER MAMMALS

Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) 

Black-backed jackal (Lupulella mesomelas) 

Genet 

Mongoose 

Southern giraffe (Giraffa giraffa) 🦒

Plains zebra (Equus quagga) 🦓

Blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) 

Greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros)

Impala (Aepyceros melampus) 

Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus)

Nyala (Tragelaphus angasii)

Southern eland (Taurotragus oryx)

Klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus), Southern grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis), Steenbok (Raphicerus campestris)

Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) 

Chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) 

Vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) 🐒

Smith's bush squirrel (Paraxerus cepapi) 🐿️

Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) 🦛

BIRDS

African fish eagle (Icthyophaga vocifer) 🦅

African hawk-eagle (Aquila spilogaster)

Bateleur eagle (Terathopius ecaudatus)

Brown snake eagle (Circaetus cinereus)

Tawny eagle (Aquila rapax)

 Black-winged kite (Elanus caeruleus)

 Gabar goshawk (Micronisus gabar) 

Verreaux's eagle-owl (Ketupa lactea) 🦉

White-backed vulture (Gyps africanus) 

Hooded vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus)

Burchell's coucal (Centropus burchellii)

Common ostrich (Struthio camelus) 

Kori bustard (Ardeotis kori)

Lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus)

Little bee-eater (Merops pusillus)

White-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides)

Brown-hooded kingfisher (Halcyon albiventris)

Pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis)

Hornbills

OTHERS

Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) 🐊

Landscapes 🌄

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