Wild Card and Internet Access in Kruger National Park

Fast Internet in Africa:

We discovered from Letaba Rest Camp Reception in central Kruger National Park that there was internet access in Kruger these days, but only to the south in Skukuza Camp next to the restuarant.

It was much closer to take a "game drive" back out to the town of Phalaborwa when we needed the internet, provided we allowed enough time to make it back before the gate closed.

Phalaborwa, is a mining town and one of the cleanest most modern towns we have found in Africa.

The tourist information office near the gate directed us to the Pick and Pay Shopping Mall accross the street from Woolworths in Phalaborwa. Inside the mall was a very up to date internet shop which rented pretty fast computers and access, but no wi fi.



Wild Card !

The South Africa National Parks International Wild Card (annual national park pass) has been quite useful to us: we bought our Wild Card park pass at Sure Travel Phalaborwa office inside the mall. We bought a couples pass, and it paid for itself in about a week at current exchange rates.

Malaria Test

Robert also got a malaria test at the National Laboratory in Phalborwa and found it was a bacterial infection.

Safari Supplies at Pick and Pay, Woolworths, Spar

We got some comfort food and supplies not found in the surprisingly very good rest camp stores within the park; and used the internet to upload pictures to our pages at www.traveljournals.net/rmalone, and our to this blog, www.malonetravels2.blogspot.com.

Camping outside the Park Gate

Two years ago we were traveling with Jerry and Nadxi, and we spent the night in our tents at a nice backpackers called Elephant Walk. This time we drove straight on into Letaba camp, but when we came back for a day on the internet we spent a night in Phalaborwa with in the Forever Resorts Safari Park which is just outside the Phalaborwa Gate to Kruger. It was more of a camping experience than staying at the backpackers, with warthogs running around when we arrived and strange calls in the night. The camp was newer and less worn than the older camps inside the park, but it did not have electric hotplates to cook on like you find in the large rest camps inside the park. The "Safari Park" did have a luxury showers and "scullery" for washing dishes and getting instant hot water, but no park store or restuarant.