“Sometimes I come to love a place so much that when I leave it’s inconceivable that I’ll never be back. But then time passes and life goes on, and the return journey gets indefinitely delayed. After years of this, I eventually realised that actual trips down memory lane don’t just happen. And so, after much planning, and nearly three decades, I finally returned to Kruger National Park with my family. It was a fine winter’s morning as we left Johannesburg, driving into the sunrise towards the Crocodile River…“

Extract from Kruger Calling, Getaway Magazine, May 2019. —