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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allan Hobbs" data-source="post: 1496754" data-attributes="member: 58367">Hi Tony,Like Dave I use the Sasol book, my wife prefers Newmans (Birds of Southern Africa). Either is good, both is better!For the mammals it depends upon how much you want to know about them. If you just want to identify them then the illustrations in the Kruger Park map/guide are fine. I recommend that you buy a guide anyway as it does give a lot of information eg geology of the park. You can pick the guide up at Crocodile Bridge gate when you enter (I presume you will be going in that way), or any of the rest camps. If you want more detail then there are quite a few ref books available eg Field Guide to the Mammals of the Kruger Park - try amazon or google and you can pick them up quite cheaply.As for the trip to Blyde, I don't have a detailed map here but I know it can be done as we did it in reverse a couple of years ago. On the way to Hazyview/Sabi Sands beware of sppedtraps if you go through Blackbush Ridge  - they got me :CAllan</blockquote>