S1 - Ep 440 - Berg-en-Dal Rest Camp!

[@christianmagna5318]

Es ist wunderschön, ich selber war auch in Berg-en-dal schönste Erinnerungen u. ich habe einen fantastischer Sternenhimmel erlebt mit Löwengebrüll im Hintergrund

[@michaelking9254]

I particularly love the way you tell us about your adventures. It’s very unique the way you use your verbal interaction to keep us informed. The Kruger is such a special place.

[@Blairgowrie_Forest_Railway]

In 2003 I worked for an architect called David Gurey. He was asked to redesign Afsaal into a Jock of the Bushveld themed restaurant after it had previously burned down. This was the 1st time I ever visited the Krugernational Park. I remember waking up early in the morning to go in his car from Johannesburg to Afsaal and then to a nother building site in Witeriver somewhere. Then we went back to Johannesburg all in one day. It was very memorable, something I will never forget.

[@wormwood6424]

What a lovely specimen that male was. Lovely shot guys xxx

[@ingeborgvanderveer789]

Berg en Dal, daar woonde ik ooit 8 jaar als student in de 90’s …. een wijk in Nijmegen in Nederland 😊. Geweldig dat jullie alweer meerdere leeuwen zagen, de mannetjes zijn werkelijk majestueus. Zo te zien was er een volgende generatie ‘in de maak’ voordat het vrouwtje er genoeg van had 😅. Schitterend de opstijgende maraboe en ook het soort ‘vos hondje’ dat de DustBugs passeerde zonder op of om te kijken. De Sjoe Sjoe chicken burger op dat bord bij de souvenierswinkel klinkt erg grappig, die zou ik wel eens willen proberen. Al doet het mij ook goed dat jullie weer eens heerlijk uit eten gingen, dik verdiend 👍👍👍. Wat mooi dat jullie de ‘vindplaats’ van de neushoorn zonder hoorns privé houden …. 🦏 Ondanks het wrede geweld dat het dier moet hebben ondergaan, ligt ie er wel relax en tevreden bij, gelukkig. Met zoveel echte dieren in beeld, ben ik wel benieuwd of het nog steeds lukt om in de winkels te ‘kijken, kijken, niet kopen’ want er zijn vast veel lieve knuffels die graag mee willen naar Strand 😍. Of anders die Rhino likeur in een originele flesvorm. Last but not least, aandoenlijk dat jullie altijd ‘oog’ hebben voor het kleinste grut op en langs de weg! De zwarte hermelijntjes, het schildpadje dat mee kleurt met het grijze asfalt 🐢 en het heel zorgvuldig bewegende hagedisje, dat zijn unieke beelden 🦎

[@dawnf6617]

The last time I visited the KNP, we stayed in a bungalow at Berg n Dal. That was in 1999. My eldest son was only 10 days old. My parents were moving back to the UK, so they spoiled us for the weekend. My dad bought a bottle of wine from the shop, it has a picture of the big 5 on it. It is still unopened to this day.

[@beryl9538]

My heart almost stopped seeing the rhino. Your food looked so appetizing. Thanks for the lovely footage. God Bless you both.❤

[@laliedutoit]

Just Fantastic as always, Thank you!

[@thewanderer58]

Breathtaking viewing once again. What a beautiful specimen of rhino you eventually saw ..... hornless sadly, but nevertheless still spectacular 😊. Thank you again for sharing an awesome ride from Pretoriuskop to Berg-en-Dal. Enjoy the balance of your journey😉.

[@mariusroos]

Wow beautiful vegerarion. The luons rocks King of the jungle!. It was a huge rino you saw. Excellent video footage. Berg en Dal was quite diffirent and I enjoyed it so much. Thank you this trip was so good. Next one i am there

[@volksieza]

What an episode, mating lions through to Rhino, wowser! Awesome trip

[@terrimeyer3815]

Thank you for hiding rhino location Curtis. Looked like a rock lying there wagging his tail. Stunning And the whole time I'm wondering from my armchair.....what happened to the mattress. Great tip about the duck tape. I've never seen a kill so can't comment how I'd feel....but it sounds like quite an experience that.😢 im.getting sad now as the days get less to the end of your KNP trip. ❤🎉❤ Lotsa love T

[@DustBugsTravel]

That combo of a patch, super glue and duck tape worked like a charm, let me tell you! 😁🛏️ We slept like babies. 😴

[@wormwood6424]

Gosh. What a lucky shot of the lions!

[@charlietreston4035]

Hi guys another awesome video love all the history and the jock trail and the dung beetle the stories about the lionesses kill !!! Great to hear your mattress stayed up and so glad you got to see a rhino! .thanks for taking me along cheerio till the next one

[@laliedutoit]

Thanks!

[@DustBugsTravel]

We appreciate your generosity so much, thank you. 🚙😊 I'm glad you enjoyed the visit to Berg-en-Dal. The rhino was the cherry on top! 😍🦏

[@laliedutoit]

@@DustBugsTravel The Rino Absolutely topped it all. Glad I could contribute the cost of a coffee or two . 😀🌸

[@tillabezuidenhout6460]

Today is so hot, that I wish we could have the weather you had then!!!!!

[@1812nico]

Hi you two! Thanks for another amazing trip. It is good to see in the last two episodes that you have brought rain to the south. Those sandy riverbeds can do with an inch or two. I really appreciate your taking the time to stop at those signs telling us how much of South African history is associated with the land now in the Kruger Park. Keep on enjoying your journey and stay safe!

[@emmerentiagroenewald3694]

I KNEW that your were going to show me a giraffe!! My most favorite animal!!❤❤❤❤🦒🦒

[@lee-anneadams9222]

Hi Curtis Sonia and Dusty, what a great adventure this is, I like me some frisky lions 😆😆. I noticed how the flora becomes more colourful the further South we go, it's just breathtakingly beautiful, thanks for the journey, safe travels 🥾

[@dawnbarnes1361]

Loved the trip! So glad you saw Mr Rhino, he was magnificent. Nutty Buddy was my favorite ice cream when I was young😅 Actually still is then comes Magnum😂 Thank again ❤

[@flodillon991]

Another very interesting camp I found all the animals amazing that buffalo didn't look very happy with you looking at him. That Rhino was extraordinary worth every moment you spent with him. ❤❤

[@monicaalberts8130]

Afsaal is very special to me....via a friend I slept there a night some years ago....splendid! I love your videos. I did the Wolhuther as well as Bushmans.....fantastic ❣

[@sicko_the_ew]

One of my great grandfathers was a transport rider on one of those Delagoa Bay routes when he was young. He apparently had the most amazing stories of basically the old Kruger Park, and all the difficulties involved in moving heavy machinery for the mines up steep hills and mountains by ox wagon, but nobody who heard them thought to write them down, so they're all lost. Only thing I've heard is he made a nice bit of money sliding something down a hill or something - an important bit of cargo everyone else had given up on that he figured out how to move to its destination. (Before the railways the transport riders got rich from their work - what with there being lots of stuff to move, and no many people willing or able to move it. Past Pretoriuskop was apparently "fever country". Malaria, I suppose, but there might've been nagana at some time? (All your Jock plaques are reminding me.)

[@DustBugsTravel]

We heard quite a bit of talk about malaria in the South, even on the radio, but I've never heard of nagana before. I had to look it up and I believe it's sleeping sickness prevalent in areas where tsetse flies are found. I can't recall hearing anything about sleeping sickness related to Kruger though, so hopefully it's not common there anymore. 🦟

[@sicko_the_ew]

@@DustBugsTravel In our times we've had some malaria back in Kruger. (My brother caught it there, once, for instance.) But I'm thinking about the old days and the reputation Delagoa Bay and surrounds had, here. It was considered a dangerous place. (I can think of at least one settlement attempt that was ended by too many people dying of some "fever", there. There was a Danish settlement for just a few years that was abandoned because of all the deaths.) (The surrounds of the bay in those times were thought to include the Lowveld, since for a long time borders there were not settled.) As for sleeping sickness, right up till the mid 1930's a lot of Zululand was as wild as it had been before colonial times because of nagana. (For a while the theory was that the game were infecting the cattle, and men were hired to slaughter huge numbers of wild animals in that area. Of course it didn't help.) Anyway the climate in Northern Zululand is quite similar to that around Delagoa Bay, so I was wondering whether the "fever" people were so afraid of, there, might have been nagana. Or maybe they had both? (Maybe there was a high incidence of, say, cerebral malaria - which is much worse than the other two varieties - combined with nagana, and the human transmissible nagana. Quite a scary combination if that's what it was.) Ja, at least as far as that goes things are better (at least for the humans) these days.

[@DustBugsTravel]

And no real meds to speak of back in the day either. 😨

[@sicko_the_ew]

@@DustBugsTravel True. Must have been quite unpleasant being in a swampy place and feeling like there's something in the very air you're breathing that might kill you, and also knowing that if you get sick that's probably the last of you. Like Dr Livingstone.

[@annawitter5161]

Love the stork taking off. What a wingspan!! That looks a lovely place to camp. I hate blow up mattresses!!! They always let me down on the ground at some stage in the night. Give me a good canvas stretcher any time. Shocking that they have to have electrified cattle grids now! Good luck on seeing a rhino. There are a few at Karoopark now. Just a shame this one had to be mutilated. Thanks for a very interesting video.

[@susannaemmerich1166]

Vulture having a shower.🙃😂😂😂🙏🎶🎶

[@susannaemmerich1166]

You know what they are saying to each other, "eat more people, eat more sick people".🙃❤

[@monicaalberts8130]

And I met a leopard one night within the camp! I was fortunate not be be eaten 😂!! But being completing some trails I knew how to behave!!

[@doraduplessis2727]

Ons het amper asem opgehou toe julle op daai groot plasse water in die grondpad afkom. My man wou met alle mag keer dat jy nie daardeur ry nie! Ons het net gister jul Bokpoort-video gekyk en gesien hoe julle in die modder vassit. Sjoe!

[@frederikbrits9559]

Berg-en-Dal/Malelane well-known for Rooiribbok/Mountain Reedbuck

[@monicaalberts8130]

......Trails.....

[@wormwood6424]

Did you guys take malaria tablets for this trip ?

[@DustBugsTravel]

No, we completely forgot about malaria tablets before our departure, which was rather irresponsible since we believe malaria is alive and well in the area. 🤷🏻‍♂️ When we got to Louis Trichardt, the pharmacy we went to, had a total of seven tablets which had to be taken daily, which wasn't going to help us much on such a long trip. So we opted for ample stock of repellent sprays and sticks instead and we seem to be doing OK so far. 🦟🤞

[@jasonpereira1637]

What month is this

[@DustBugsTravel]

We were in Kruger for three weeks in November / December 2023 and in Berg-en-Dal specifically on 11 December 2023. The date is displayed on the intro map at the beginning of the video. 🚙

[@tillabezuidenhout6460]

Rhinos are. Majestic animals