After a night in Johannesburg we flew to Skukuza, an airport inside Kruger. It just took us 50 minutes to get right inside the park. We were picked up by the lodge driver who drove us to Hoyo Hoyo lodge, just som 90 km from Skukuza. But we needed 2.5 h for the transfer but the transfer was more of a game drive. We saw some hippos, buffaloes, elephants and many different kind of antelopes. But no cats. 

Hoyo Hoyo lodge is without any fences so you are not allowed to go out when it’s dark. We have no mobile coverage nor normal landline. No TV and of course no Internet. We communicate with VHF/radio between our huts. Yes we live in a hut, very luxurious, but still a hut. If we want to got to the pool or the lounge, we have to call for a security man t o come and get us.

The lodge has built a waterhole right across the river (dried out for the moment) so we got greeted by elephants just as we arrived. 

We go for Game Drive two times a day, early morning and late afternoon. All other time it feels like we only eat and sleep. The weather is cold for the season, like 20 / 25 degrees and we have a little rain every day. So the pool has not been so popular yet. We still hope for tomorrow, our last day here. 

We have managed to see the big five and even got to see two cheetah hunting a flock of Zebras. 

We have seen Leopards and Lions twice. Couples, singles and in a flock. Even one Leopard in a tree, that was really nice.

 Tomorrow we fly back via Johannesburg and Munich to Stockholm.