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If you have been on an adventure trip in the past, enter a travel report and photograph of your experience to win a free vacation to the plains of Africa.
Spend three nights in an exclusive wilderness camp in the heart of the Kruger National Park in South Africa. You will get a lot of personal attention as there are a maximum of 8 people allowed on the trail and you are accompanied by a ranger (exceptionally well versed in the ways of the wild) and a tracker. All meals, many of them spent around a roaring camp fire, are included. Transfer from Johannesburg international airport in South Africa to Skukuza in the Kruger National Park. Meet your ranger and tracker and then drive by land rover to the wilderness camp. Accommodation is in rustic two bed wooden huts. A covered lapa serves as a dining/socialising area where the campfire's flickering shadows encourage stories of adventures in the African bush. Each day commences with coffee and rusks in the crisp morning hours. Then it's off in the land rover to an area in the bush chosen by the ranger to start walking. The previous evenings lion roars often determine the spot chosen. A light meal is enjoyed in the bush and brunch awaits you when you return to camp at noon. You are then free to do as you choose until a short walk just before dusk (I normally took advantage of the coolness of the hut to catch up on some sleep). Evenings are spent around the campfire listening to the sounds of the bush and grilling the ranger about his previous wildlife experiences. Drive back to Skukuza on the afternoon of the last day of the holiday competition safari (we saw a leopard dangling in a tree on this drive). Transfer back to Johannesburg.
I've been on the walking safari in the Kruger Park that is the prize for this year's ASJ holiday competition. Three times in fact. I couldn't get enough the first time. Must have had something to do with the fact that we saw lions on the second day of the walk. Seeing lions close up while on foot is an awe inspiring experience. They charged us because they had cubs to protect. It was a mock-charge (they just want to show who's boss) so there was no danger, and both ranger and tracker had their rifles sighted just in case. But 300 pounds of snarling, spitting feline power really gets the adrenaline pumping so I couldn't resist going on the walking safari again about a year later. This time the highlights were two young male lions but they ran from us (who is the boss now?) and a black rhino which is incredibly rare in Africa. I have been on many safaris for over 25 years and this is the one and only time that I have ever seen a black rhino on foot. More recently I went on a third walking safari and was incredibly lucky to see lions on foot once more. They stood at a distance looking at us and trying to figure out what we were. When the wind turned and they caught a whiff of us, they ran off (watch the video). What I am trying to get across here is that this walking safari in the Kruger National Park holiday competition is something very special. I have never forgotten it. Bruce Whittaker
If you have been on any of the adventure trips that appear on this dropdown list in the past five years then you can enter this holiday competition by sharing your experience with others in the form of your trip report and a photograph taken on the tour. So why can't people who have never been on an adventure trip enter this contest? Because the travel review and picture of your previous adventure experience is your entry into this competition, just like entering a photograph in a wildlife photography competition entitles you to enter and win a prize there. So please only enter the holiday competition if you have already been on an adventure trip that appears on the list in the past five years.
Simply request a questionairre for the relevant adventure trip that you went on by choosing it from the dropdown list below. The questionairre will then be e-mailed to you so that you can answer the questions provided. Please try to be as comprehensive and accurate as you can in your answers and you can write as much as you want about your experience so don't be shy (the total length of your answers must be more then 200 words to qualify for the contest). After completing the questionairre, e-mail it back to me and then your answers will be transformed into a webpage which will help others who are considering an adventure trip themselves so try and make it as informative and helpful as possible because potential travellers will be learning from your experience. Be sure to answer all the questions or your entry will be invalid. Please also include your one best photograph (tough choice I know...I always take hundreds of photographs on safari). Once you submit your adventure review and picture I will read through it to make sure that it's going to be useful and helpful to future adventure travellers and will let you know when it appears on this website and becomes your entry into the competition. If for any reason it doesn't qualify I will let you know too, so please make sure that your contact details are accurate. By submitting your contribution you certify that you have read and agree to be bound by the holiday competition rules of the safari journal of the year holiday competition.Example Safari Trip Report EntriesClick below to see the competition entry trip reports from other safari travellers... Lions Mating in the Ngorongoro Crater: Overseas Adventure Travel Review Everything went exactly as planned and the food was great. We saw elephants and zebra adults and young. So beautiful. Also cheetah, lions and lions mating ... Safari Day Trip In Hlane, Swaziland Hlane National Park is one of the few places in Swaziland where it's still possible to see lion in their natural habitat. Whitney paid the park a visit ... A Kruger Park Holiday Worth Waiting For 16 years!! That's how long it took for us to return to the Kruger National Park. 2006 was our year. The twins had outgrown their hyperactivity and ...
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