S1 - Ep 430 - Letaba Rest Camp!
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- Our stay at Letaba Rest Camp in Kruger National Park was absolutely fantastic. The drive from Tsendze Rustic Camp to Letaba was filled with breathtaking moments as we encountered a variety of stunning wildlife, including lions, elephants, giraffes and nyala. The rivers and dams in this area provided ample water for the animals, enhancing the overall experience. Witnessing the thrilling spectacle of lions at a zebra kill, with their intense growls as they competed for the food, was a highlight. Letaba has always held a special place in our hearts, and our time there was truly enjoyable, making our stay a memorable and enriching experience. #DustBugs #adventuretravel #southafrica #southafricavlog #travelongravel #krugernationalpark #letaba #dustbugstravel #adventure
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I saw the episode pop up and thought I'd be the first. Seems I'm second 😅.
I wanted to say that I absolutely love the Dustbugs travels. It's addictive and I can hardly wait for the next one. It's better than TV or a movie.
Letaba is the queen of parks in Kruger. So much to see and the heautiful wild. Thanks guys for this most pleasant trip. Really one to remember. Next trip i am on board
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Hi guys another awesome video you seem to have great luck with the animal siting. And what a beautiful place to stay the rondevelles brought back memories for me on my first trip to the Kruger Park back in the 70s. So glad to see you reliving you memories it just adds to the atmosphere. Your braai looked amazing to me it can't get any better!!! With ice cold beer and views across the Bush. I'll never be able to get back to SA but your videos bring it to me siting on my sofa in kent absolutely love it .thanks for taking me along cheerio till the next one
Next level - thank you! My dad and grand dad visited Letaba camp in a Studebaker Hawk and had Marie biscuits and naartjies in between them on the vinyl seat ! The baboons saw them from the bonnet of the car and went in through the open window no aircon at that stage. Needles to say dad and grand dad got a first hand experience of the park on foot waiting for the baboons to finish the pad kos!
What a fantastic camp those bridges to the hides are simply very nice. The birds, monkeys and most of all those lions. They definitely are never hungry so fat they are. Those giraffe are so tall its unbelieveable. Just loved it thsnk you do much.
First to comment....Amazing..wish i could give you a million likes🤩
I'm sure you had a wonderful time!!!!!
Lying down the giraffe is still taller than the standing zebra. How awful to see a burning elephant. The hide, yep! The notice says silence, he bangs the gate! 🤣🤣😂Wonderful photography, well done.
That's a special camp! 😉
LIONS......wow another great video. Felt like I was there as well. This has been a wonderful hour spent travelling the Kruger. Thank you so much for your stunning travel videos. I'm loving it ❤🎉❤
Thanks once again. I will never be able to go and see all these lovely places but because of you two we are enjoying the ride with you.❤
What a lovely trip. I loved all your sightings. Letaba is a beautiful camp. I love all the trees. You had a nice hut in a perfect spot. And that braai... It looked so good. Thank for all the amazing footage.
I am SO IMPRESSED with how well maintained all the camps and roads are. I especially love Letaba, I'm amazed at how well stocked the lovely shop is, the restaurant looks so inviting and the pool for the day visitors was sparkling clean and would be perfect for a refreshing dip on a hot day. The Kruger Park is glorious and deserves as much support as possible, if you have watched this video, tell someone else about it, let's encourage as many people as possible to visit this beautiful gem that we have right here on our doorstep in SA.
Not only great natural video content but a great example of two wonderful people....much respect!
Nog n briljante videi en wonderlike ervaring om saam julle deur die wildtuin te toer! Baie dankie julle. 🥂🍹
Baie dankie vir die ongelooflike olifant-museum!
So interessant dat hulle die datums kon bysit.....!
Ek sou dae daar kon deurbring om al die info te lees!!❤❤
Interesting you know many birds names 😊
Showing Letaba Rest Camp, so many memories, those elephants 🐘 in the museum with Tsonga names, I love ❤️ it.
Letaba Day Visitors Site is been there for decades, as far I can remember
Oh, my first time hearing about Giriyondo Border post
What an nice episode thanks for sharing animal sightings epic
Prachtig het museum met de olifanten slagtanden en dieren vellen, mooi eerbetoon ook aan de dieren die ooit stierven door de handen van stropers. Ook weer genoten van zoveel statige olifanten met hun jonkies erbij 🐘🐘🐘. Werkelijk uniek hoeveel leeuwen en leeuwinnen je op film kon ‘vangen’, ondanks die dag wat meer mede toeristen onderweg. Dat heerlijk neerploffen der leeuwenkoningen zou je bijna zelf willen nadoen 😅, erg koddig om te zien. Je hebt een erg goede camera Curtis, zo scherp als je de dieren in beeld weet te krijgen, ook als ze ergens deels verstopt tussen de struiken liggen! 🎥. Gelukkig dat jullie de eigen inwendige mens niet vergaten, de resultaten van het braaien mochten er zijn 😋🥩. Die Amarula cocktail van Sonia ziet er heeeeerlijk uit, het echte vakantie gevoel 🍹
Believe Sonia win the race mate.....more annimals when it's overcast
Thank you for taking us to the places that we cannot afford to get to. Letaba is definitely my favourite place in the Kruger so far.
This trip was FABULOUS. Thank you so much! I had a good laugh at the way those Lions just flopped their heads down 😂 Can't wait for the next trip 😊❤
Mesmerisingly beautiful - I will need to revisit these precious episodes many times 🙏🏻🥰🫶🏻
Hi you two! Thank you for another amazing trip! Letaba has become quite a grand town over the years. The elephant 'memorial' room is stunning! I can't get enough of Kruger Park. Hope you will turn round when you come to the South and go North again.😉 I'm ready for the next ride.
Keep safe!
❤i love Letaba..and I enjoy your beauty videos ❤
This brings back so many memories. Was there with my family spent many good times there. Love Letaba. ❤
Great video! I also love Letaba!
Dis weer goed om te sien jy braai
I've heard that cicadas are "switched on by temperature". The hotter it gets, the louder they get. They're quite "ecologically fragile", from what I remember. They reproduce slowly for insects, but make up for this by living something like 17 years. (Can't remember where I heard this, which means it's either completely reliable information, or absolute nonsense, depending on the source.)
I knew a little dog who suffered from Jack Russell Disease (a normally fatal psychiatric condition), once, who loved cicadas. She would go into the dune bush and find herself a cicada, and then bring him home and walk around the house with that lovely zizzing feeling in her teeth, as he zizzed. Round and round she'd go. Round and round. Round and round again. Never got tired of this. Round and round the house with a nice zizzing cicada in her teeth.
So then some human would get tired of the pain caused by the terrible noise, and would try to take her cicada from her. It was HER cicada, though, so no-one else was going to have him. If you want one go fetch your own. So she would kill her cicada to save him from becoming someone else's.
What a lovely place to have the important memories stored in.
And you had a great Kruger trip. (For starters lions are never guaranteed, and there you've had quite a few of them, even growling.) You'd know that, but other potential visitors might not get that sometimes what you see there is lots of trees, and some impala (always some impala). Good idea to just stop like that and listen sometimes. That makes it about the surroundings - which is what it's really about, anyway. Sightings are a bonus, but it's that feeling of having left the normal world behind that really makes it so special.
Letaba means in Shangaan.....berge/mountains revering to the Lebomboberge
I just discovered your site. I enjoy the chit chat between you and your wife. I’ll be watching because I’ve never been to Africa. You’ll take me to places I’ll never go. Thanks. I am watching from Florida USA
I agree about being addictive. Definately better than TV. Especially watching from a cold winters day in Burnham-on- Sea in the UK. What time of year is this as there are so few people at the rest camps
We were in the Park during the last week of November and the first two weeks of December and it was very hot, which I think deters a lot of folks. 🥵 It might not come across in our videos since we don't focus on people, but on the incredible natural surroundings of the place. There were quite a few folks around though. 🚙😁 Incidentally, the date of a specific visit is indicated in the intro of each episode. We arrived in Letaba on 30 November 2023.
I am the person that Surveyed the hole of Letaba camp. I drew a map that was displayed in reception. They still use it to locate your accommodation unit. The camp Manager use to be Paul Kruger a relative of Old President Kruger. I grew up in Phalaborwa and in the your video just before you turned in to Letaba, a service vehicle with the marking LAEVELD SLAGHUIS that use to be my brother in law's Ben and Marie van Vuuren butchery. Letaba had beautiful green grass in the camp. Now they say they do not maintain grass for it must return to natural grass. I do not agree with this. A camp must be a place to relax and need to be MAINTAINED. My Father build the camp site for the PMC Game Reserve on the southern side of Phalaborwa bordering Kruger Park. He build some dams on the rehab areas of PMC mine and all the animals started to go back in these areas. He was head of a team blasting the big open cast at PMC.
It was privilege to grew up in this part of South Africa.
Wonderdul camp!!! Just a heads up... check out the pool area next time!!!
Love those loops you're showing us. We're staying st Letaba beginning March 2024. First rime. Thanks for sharing. Is Sonya a bit nervous to get out at the hides?
Sonia isn't nervous at all. She has rather serious knee issues, so if the distance is not short, the pathway isn't completely level and there are no stairs or steps, she much prefers staying put in the vehicle, which is the safest place for her. 🥰 The last thing we need, is for her to get hurt on our travels.
@@DustBugsTravel , sorry for prying. And I totally understand now why she'd prefer to play it safe. An injury could totally change your itinerary and experience. God bless you both
Great video, what type of camera setup are you using?
I film with my everyday cellphone, a Samsung S22 Ultra, mounted on a regular selfie-stick. No fancy equipment here, that does the job just fine for us vloggers! 😁
@@DustBugsTravel it does a great job, safe travels
41:23 😂 The guy speaking in the background 😂. “Says the one who packed here, packed like a kid”
Oh the video was filmed on my birthday 😅 1 Dec
Hi guys, thanks for the videos, so informative……..just one favor please, can you also give us the prices of the accommodation that you stay at for interest sake. It will be great for one day when we visit some of these places……happy travels.
I'm glad you're enjoying our visit to Kruger! 🚙😍 I'd like our content to be relevant for years to come and including accommodation prices will make them less so in my view. Prices are readily available online for anyone who is interested. Just so you know, we're budget travellers for the most part, so rarely go over R800 per night. Kruger was a different story at some of the camps though and we exceeded this budget by far in some of the camps. Letaba was not one of those camps. And if we did go over, it was still worth every single cent we paid! 🏡😁
@@DustBugsTravel ok great thanks!
Sad to see the hiasinte [spelling?] in the Letaba river
It has a weird spelling: Hyacinth. And ja, sad to see that. I think it's something that's here to stay. Apparently the entire Congo Basin is full of it, too. All because once upon a time someone thought that would be nice for the garden pond somewhere, I suppose. I heard there were attempts to introduce a beetle that lives on them naturally, but haven't heard more on that, so I guess it didn't work out.
I have read somewhere that they are now "mincing" it up for making garden furniture ,like the stuff that they make from recycled plastic.....
Also, it would not be so attractive for guys to steal your furniture...!!👍👍
Are the camps fenced so lions don't come in? 🤭😇
Yes, all the camps are fenced and some have cattle grids at the entrance gates as a further deterrent. The entrance gates are closed at night too when predators are most active. 🦁🐆