A MONTH in the KRUGER - BERG EN DAL (Episode 13)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ธ.ค. 2022
- Join us for a whole month in South Africa's Kruger National Park as we travel from the south to the far north and back again staying at ten different rest camps. Stunning scenery, amazing animals, beautiful birds and excellent accomodation, the Kruger has it all.
This episode features our drives from Berg en Dal Rest Camp and our final days of this great adventure.
This is a brilliant series i love 💕
Many thanks!
The beautiful of the nature 💓💖
True!
Thanks, just watched the last 6 again. Can't wait for this years'
Galad you enjoyed them so much. I'll be watching them over again when we get too old to travel!
I think I’ve watched the whole series now. Thanks Les for showing us (international visitors or not) what beauty Kruger has to offer, if we only care to look!
Thanks for your appreciation. You haven't watched the whole series yet, there's still a couple to go 😀
Thanks for Sharing! We enjoyed every episode!
Glad you enjoyed them!
What a brilliant series, you really did a nice job showing the whole of the park. It really is a wonderful place and you are spot on with how easy it is. 👏👏👏
Thank you so much! Hopefully a few more people will be inspired to visit the wonderful Kruger National Park.
@@oldcodgerwithacamera For sure we think it’s the greatest place on earth.
great series, thanks for the ride
Many thanks!
Thanks for both series , the Kgalagadi and Kruger especially the accomodation now I know with smaller camps to book my next visit,
Definitely Punda Maria tents, last time I was there the tents were not build.
Thanks, see you on your next trip
So glad the videos have been helpful. Next trip coming soon!
A brilliant series. Thank you so much for taking us with you.
Many thanks for taking the time to comment!
Thank you so much 👋👋👋👋
Really enjoyed your journey
Have a great Christmas season
Many thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Great series! Give Croc Bridge another try - admittedly not great nightly bush sounds but game viewing there is great, in August at least, also good chance of seeing cheetah, and also a good camp to start or end with. And also give the braai another go - with wood!
Many thanks. Just come back from another trip, stayed at Lower Sabie but spent a lot of time around Crocodile Bridge as most of the roads were closed near LS. Some fantastic lion sightings but no cheetahs. Gave the braii another go at Skukuza with wood but I still don't get it. Sorry!
Thanks mate. Absolutely loved the series, both content & quality, well done. Watched over 3 nights straight!
Amazing joint - & immense. Didn't see one kangaroo!
Must he hard returning to normality!!
Many thanks for those words. It was so hard returning to normality that we went back to the Kgalagadi and Kruger in February this year! New series of videos coming in a few months time.
@Old Codger With a Camera
Excellent. I look forward to them
Awesome videos, Thanks for sharing.
Many thanks, glad you enjoyed them!
Nice Documentry 👍
Thanks a lot!
Cool❤❤
Many thanks!
Brilliant video
Many thanks!
Hi Les. What a fantastic series which we have both thoroughly enjoyed. We were lucky enough to visit Kruger again for 3 weeks in August/September and are hoping to be able to go back to our happy place in the future. Thanks for taking the time to share your videos. Karl & Alison
Many thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. We are going back earlier than anticipated, can't seem to stay away!
Well done with the Barred Owl
Helped by a tip off!
Thx for a great series. Just as info the Nyala is the divide between big and small buck, nyale female is a ewe while the male is a bull.
Many thanks for your comment and info.
Really nice.....
Thanks a lot 😊
Really awesome. Thanks for the effort you put in, enjoyed every second!
Many thanks, much appreciated.
What a great end to a great series, thank you for the time and effort that goes into it and for all your recent help. Roll on next year.
Many thanks for all your comments and support. Always exciting to know there's going to be a next time!
Beautiful videos sir,thanks for Sharing your journeys with us
My pleasure, thanks for watching.
Thanks for your videos,must visit sooner than 18 months.Enjoyed you comments and background music.See you on the next one.Groete Lucas.
The good news is that we couldn't wait those 18 months and we're off to the Kgalagadi and Kruger again at the end of January. Saves us having to buy a new wildcard! New videos coming early summer next year. Thanks for your appreciation.
Thanks a lot ! ❤
You're welcome 😊
Very nice 👍🙂
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for a lovely and informative series. We have throughly enjoyed watching in the run up to our trip in 9 days time.
Many thanks for your comment. Have a great trip!
Amazing series! We are going to south africa in october this year and we will be 10 days in the kruger. We are so excited!! Tnx for al the footages and tips!
Thanks, I hope some of my experiences have helped in your planning. I'm sure you'll have a great time.
Thank you so much, I felt very sad that it all came to an end. I really enjoyed visit the Kruger with you. Hope to see you REAL soon.
Once again thanks for watching and commenting. Have you began the next series yet?
Waiting for 18 months to end and to see you back in Kruger! 😊 enjoyed all your episodes.
We couldn't wait 18 months! We went back in February this year and a new series started a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for watching so far.
@@oldcodgerwithacamera on it now!👀
I indeed enjoyed your trip .......hope to see you soon!!
Maybe you'll spot me in the park one day!
Been waiting for this 😂Just going to put the kettle on ...
Hope you enjoy it, it's the last one ... for now! We'll be back next year.
Brilliant series, It's really whet our appetite for our upcoming trip in Oct/ Nov 2024. Hopefully we've got our timing right for lots of sightings and many more birds too. Great videography really brought the Kruger to life. Nice to get the insights to the various camps you stayed at - the accomodation at Shimuwini looked fabulous, also Talamati looked really nice too. When we were last in Kruger in 2018 we stayed 3 nights at Berg en Dal and saw so, so many rhino - they still had their horns back then - bit sad to see them all dehorned nowadays but needs must in order to protect these wonderful beasts from the evil poachers. Thanks again for your hard work putting these videos together 😄😄😄 I've had a few goes myself and fully appreciate the time and effort you must have invested in your work. Cheers, Steven
Many thanks for your appreciation especially of the effort it takes to produce these videos. October and November are probably the best time for sightings as the bush will be quite sparse and the migrant birds will be arriving. Agree about the rhinos, it was quite shocking to see them freshly dehorned but what I didn't realise until later is that the horns grow back and once they get rounded off a bit they don't look as bad. I guess though, at some point, they will have to be dehorned again. Have a great trip.
So many bars !!! But again wonderfully video thanks
Many thanks!
I truly enjoyed watching your videos. It was incredibly fulfilling. Like I was there with you. Such close-ups. I look forward to the next rendition.
Take care of yourselves. I hear the UK is iffy nowadays.
So glad you enjoyed it! New series coming in a couple of months. Not sure what you mean about the UK being 'iffy'. In what way?
A beautiful journey, your editing and montage are brilliant! Thank you for producing this series.
Many thanks for those kind words. I' glad you enjoyed the series. New series coming soon!
Have been watching the whole series and enjoyed every minute of it - Very relaxing as feeling part of the journey. Looking forward to the next series already.
Have a great time next february - Best wishes for 2023 !
Many thanks for your kind words, they are much appreciated.
What a fantastic series! Thanks for sharing your experience. Do visit SA again!
Many thanks. Already got one more visit under our belt and I'm doing the videos for that now. Each time we return home we think we've paid our last visit but then I start working on the videos and can't wait to get back! We will return!
A fabulous series, we loved it all and we thought you took excellent bird photos.
I appreciate your praise. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this wonderful and long journey. Lots of memories from my own trips came to me. I strongly support you in your statements regarding Kruger park and its wildlife...
Also respect for all the filming and editing what might look easy... (it isn't). Now I want to go back myself...😅
Many thanks for those words, glad you enjoyed it. I suspect very few people realise just how much work goes into editing these videos so thanks for that comment. Get back there! We'll be going back in just over a week's time, it's hard to stay away!
A pleasure to watch - beautifully shot, a nicely restrained commentary, very helpful labels for the animals and birds. If only the rest of TH-cam was like this.
Many thanks for your great words. That's exactly what I tried to do.
What a brilliant record of your trip to Kruger. Great videography! I'm probably doing it the wrong way around but will be looking at the Kgalagadi bit next. Oh and almost forgotten to mention that my favorite time of the year in Kruger is November, just before the rains arrive. Since I live in South Africa it's not that hard to time it right.
Many thanks, I hope you enjoy the Kgalagadi series although my video editing skills improved by the time I got to the Kruger series! Good to know about November as that's not a time we've been before so will bear it in mind for a future visit.
Thank you for a wonderful series. Look forward to the next one.
Many thanks for your comment, much appreciated! Hopefully new episodes early next summer.
Thank you so much for sharing your trip and the amazing video footage. We really enjoyed everyone of them.
Many thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed them!
Thoroughly enjoyed all the episodes. Thank you for creating such great content and showing us how life is in Kruger National Park. I am envious of your trip
Many thanks for your comment, much appreciated!
Thank you for a most amazing trip through the Kruger ! We went on our first safari in September. 11 days from north to south. Watching your wonderful videos was like a re-enactment of our incredible time in the Kruger. Lovely to see the camps, and also the journey along the different roads. But especially the wildlife. We were very fortunate to see an incredible amount during our 11 days. Beyond all expectations ! I was smiling throughout your whole adventure ! And then I sat down and watched our own videos ! I would give anything to go back again, but that was a once in a lifetime holiday I think. Off to do the lottery……! Or watch your series again !
Many thanks, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I hope you manage to get back to the Kruger again but it gets more and more expensive each year. We are trying to get back there as often as we can but at some point the money is going to run out! We are heading back for another trip in two weeks time so it looks like there will be a 'Series 2' for you to enjoy later in the year!
A brilliant series of your travels through the Kruger, love that you showed the camps and the accomodations. Sept/Oct is definately much better to visit. Best is always to enter through the south as you did, spend the first 2 days getting to punda and the slowly work your way to the south as the sun will be mostly on your back and you will see much more. ps I braai twice a week, and the trick is to never use charcoal :-)
Many thanks for the appreciation and itinerary advice. I haven't completely given up on the braii, maybe I'll crack it next time!
Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful videos of our precious wildlife in the Kruger. We loved every moment of it. May God bless you and looking forward to your next visit. Greetings Johann & Trudie(Northwest South Africa)
Many thanks for yuour kind words.
watched the whole series and it was a relaxing and enjoyable watch. I'll be back in June/July next year and I cant wait! Kruger magic.
Many thanks, we couldn't wait either so the 18 months that I mentioned has turned into more like 8 months!
Hi Les. Watched every incredible episode. Incredible footage and great commentary. Used to visit the park twice a year as a kid/teen before we left the country and havent visited the Kruger since 1993 but your brilliant series gave me a chance to see it again. Thank you mate.
Thanks for the compliments! I guess a few things must have changed in the last 30 years? Not the animals (although, presumably, more rhinos) but the infrastructure and, perhaps, there were less visitors? It was only in the last 5 years that we discovered Kruger and have been hooked ever since. In the days of mortgages and bring up a family we could never have afforded it but it's now getting more and more expensive each year so at some point we will have to just rely on memories like you. Glad you enjoyed the videos.
Tell me something about the old codger in the truck. Thank you. Great videos, great series. Thank your for sharing your adventure with all of us.
Thanks for the appreciation! By the 'old codger in the truck' do you mean me or was there another one in this episode? You can find a little bit about me under 'About' on the home page of the channel. Anything specific you want to know?
Thanks for getting back to me. I checked out the 'about' on the home page and found helpful information. I want to know your first name and are you traveling with anyone? Do you live in South Africa? Larry and I love your videos. You do a brilliant job sharing your adventures through Kruger. It's a wonderful park. And how wonderful at 70 you have a fun, exciting purpose to share with all of us. The adventures are educational, fun, and relaxing. Thanks for producing this series. Looking forward to more adventures.
75 now! I'm Les and my wife who I travel with is Sandy but she's a bit camera shy! We live in the Outer Hebrides, a group of islands off the north west coast of Scotland so getting to South Africa is a bit of a trek! Thanks for all your kind words, a new series of Kruger adventures from earlier this year - ten episodes in total - started last last week.
@@oldcodgerwithacamera Thanks for answering my questions. One more curiosity; how did you get interested in Kruger? And how many years have you been filming? Great relaxed filming style. Thanks for sharing with all of us. I feel like I've been to Kruger through you.
Long story. I’d always wanted to go on a safari since I was 15 but it was way out of reach then and seemed to be until a few years ago. In 2017 we found a very cheap ‘repositioning’ cruise going from Cape Town to Venice. We love Venice so booked this and thought ‘What can we do in South Africa before the cruise?’. Started looking at things to do and came across a 10 day guided tour of the Kruger. Booked that and fell in love! Realised that we could easily do the Kruger as a Self-drive and went back again and again. Current series from earlier this year is our fifth visit. Only started making videos a couple of years ago and A Month in the Kruger was the first time I set off specifically to try and make a video series.
Really enjoyed your journey. Thanks for taking me along. Trust you had a safe journey home. Best wishes to you both.😀😀😀
Many thanks for your kind words. Safely home but couldn't wait to get back there so it will be sooner than 18 months!
Wow, that series was awesome to watch. Thank you for uploading your adventures! 🤩 We've also been to Kruger last year, but in July, so I watched this and always thought, haha, only a few weeks before we drove these roads. We only had 8 fantastic days in KNP and stayed (in perimeter bungalows or riverview tent) at B'n'D, Lower Sabie, Satara and Orpen before we headed for the Northern Sabi Sand because of the leopard density there. In fact we wouldn't have needed to go there as we already had 5 leopards (my absolute favourites) in KNP 😂. You had so many amazing sightings and I'm a bit jealous you've been there again since. But I'm going back to Botswana in July, so I can't really complain 😊. Looking forward for your next videos and by the way, my first self-drive trip to KNP was also in 2017... 😂
Many, many, thanks. So glad you enjoyed it. I'm a bit jealous that you are going to Botswana, we've never been but it's on the list, advancing age and diminishing money permitting!
@@oldcodgerwithacamera Oh, you absolutely have to visit Botswana! It's the 3rd time I'm going there and I'm sure it'll be amazing again: the Okavango, Khwai/Moremi, Makgadikgadi (we'll sleep under the stars on the pans this time 😃) and Chobe - my favourite places after KNP and the Northern Sabi Sand! 🥰
Nice to see thank you. We planning a trip to Berg en Dal later this year. We have always gone up north to Letaba, Satara & Orpen. First time to Berg en Dal, sounds like a good area to see Animals & a nice Camp. Did you enjoy your time there?
I like Berg en Dal as a camp, it's completely different and the scenery is some of the best in the park. We've never had much success with sightings on the main road approach to the camp or the gravel roads which go up into the mountains but the nearby waterhole can be great and many people have reported leopards in the area especailly when you get on to the S25. I recently read a trip report from someone staying at Berg en Dal who saw leopards every day for ten days in a row but we have never been that lucky!
Much appreciated, really great video; thank you for showing inside the bungalow. Going there this May 2023, so we enjoyed all of it; thank you; good video quality, I see you used a small DJI or similar; did you use a larger camera with telephoto lens? Thank you again
Many thanks. DJI Pocket 2 for talking to camera, filming interiors and shots out of the vehicle. Canon M50 with 55-200mm lens for video of wildlife and Canon 7D MkII with Sigma 150-600mm lens for still photography.
Hi , just watched the last episode & really enjoyed the whole series. You stuck to what is the most important for real wildlife travelers , accommodation , the various camps & of course roads traversed . We have never been to the northern parts of the Kruger so it was great to get some insights into that part for a future journey . Enjoyed that you identified the birds in particular , I'm not a birder but interested in what species is seen. We went in Sept/Oct & although from South Africa it was a bit to hot even for us but we did however see a lot of animals , in fact in 8 days we saw the big 5 three times & wild dogs which we have never seen before . Hope you surviving the cold UK weather & look forward to your next visit in 18 months . Thanks for sharing your lovely experiences
Many thanks for your kind words. We have normally gone in September/October and, like you, saw a lot more wildlife despite the heat. Good news is that we couldn't wait 18 months and are off the the Kgalagadi and Kruger again at the end of January. Hopefully there will be more videos by early summer. Thanks again for commenting.
Another great video, thank you. You must have spent hours editing.....
Many thanks! Yes, indeed, hours and hours and hours!
Superb !
When did you at Kruger to film this vídeos ?
Thx ! 👍👍👍
Many thanks. Filmed in May/June 2022, need to watch to the end!
Good ideology 😋😍😍
Many thanks!
Just discovered your great Kruger videos! What zoom do you mainly use? We are headed there in Sept on self-drive and want to make sure which zoom range works best …. Thanks! Cliff
Many thanks. Video is filmed with a Canon M50 with 50-200mm lens and stills with a Canon 7D Mk II with a Sigma 150-600mm lens.
Thank you very much for this great series. It felt like a month in the Kruger for my husband and me. We visited the park about a month after you, from 26 June to 24 July 2022(Punda Maria, Shingwedzi, Mopani, Letaba, Tambotie, Skukuza). We were fortunate with wonderful sightings, even four sightings of cheetahs. I have a puzzling question for you. You were in the park for 32 days and paid around R25500. How did you managed that? We were in the park for 24 nights and paid R32000. We booked the BG2 bungalows and CCT2 tents where possible. We had a Wildcard,which I am sure you bought as well. Anyway, I hope you will enjoy your next visit. We are planning to go to KNP sometimes soon. Fanie and Elna JvR. (Zambia)
Many thanks for your appreciation. I don't recall mentioning the cost of the trip (I may have forgotten and I don't want to watch every video again!). If you can give me a clue as to where that figure was mentioned I'll check it out and get back to you.
@@oldcodgerwithacamera Good morning, You showed your reservation with you entry permit when you entered Malelane.
Crikey, that was well spotted! There were two bookings, one for May and one for June. The one you can see at R25500 is the May booking for 15 nights. The total cost for the 32 nights was R52237 so a fair bit more than you paid but the accomodation was generally 3 bed units and there were a couple of more expensive camps.
@@oldcodgerwithacamera Thank you. That makes sense. I was just concerened I missed something. You must enjoy your planning for your next trip. Looking forward to the videos.
Knowledge video
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Cheers!
Interested to hear what camera gear you use?
Several cameras. GoPro Hero 5 mounted on the windscreen which is voice controlled so I don't have to touch it, DJI Pocket 2 for speaking to camera and side shots, Canon M50 for most of the wildlife videos and a Canon 7D MkII with Sigma 150-600mm lens for still photography.
Getting plenty of ads so I hope you accepted Adsense
Can't do anything about the ads but monetising will only make it worse.
@@oldcodgerwithacamera but it would help you to do an earlier trip than you hoped for and viewers don't mind, really. I remember when the ground hornbill was so Endangered that Ondestepoort took an egg out of the nests leaving one chick to hatch. When hatched they had a puppet hornbill feed it. That way they managed to get the numbers up.
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