Skukuza is one of the big camps in Kruger.
Early in the morning you hear the cars eager to be the first in the row when the gates are opened.
You hear the rattling wheels of suitcases on the way to the big tour busses. Talking, laughing and sometimes even shouting....
But even in this big camp you have got islands of tranquillity.
Just take you time to sit on one of the benches along the Sabie River and wait for the sunrise.
You will meet not too many other people, but those who are there have a smile on their faces, they give you a nod as greeting and all of them wait patiently.
You hear hundreds of birds in the reeds of the riverbank, Hippos returning back to the river after a nocturnal "walkabout", you hear the Francolins waking up, as well as the Baboons and sometimes you make out their silhouettes in the distance on top of the railway bridge.
If you are lucky, there is some mist on the river which makes the mood even more special.
You sit there in awe watching the sun rising bit by bit.
The colours in the sky change dramatically.
And you simply have no words for so much beauty……..
I even persuade myself, that the smiles on the people’s faces are even broader when leaving this wonderful haven of tranquillity.
3 comments:
I once saw mist on the river, when we stayed at the riverside bungalows. *sigh*
Reading this I can almost picture myself next to the river again. :-))
You describe it so well Katja.
I loved our stay in a riverside bungalow in 2007
xx
Thanx Girls :-D
Oh I wish to start tomorrow morning like that......
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