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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alf King" data-source="post: 1514629" data-attributes="member: 22">To add my ten pennorth, my personal advice would be to fly to Nelspruit via Jo'berg and get an extra day or so in the park. Then the best place to start for birds and mammals is Skukuza - although many regard it as the most commercial of the camps it has a number of great birding areas close by, it has great facilities for your first couple of days, and I can guarantee that your wife would appreciate it.We covered Satara, Letaba and Shingwedzi besides and had numerous excellent mammal sightings, sometimes when on our own, including numerous lions, hundreds of elephants, and six leopards (2 self-found, good pics). The birding was great especially as we did it all on our own, learning as we went, and managed 194 species in April, which is about the toughest month. You should be able to hope for 230-250 in November I would guess. Included in this total were two exceptional sightings - Yellow-streaked Greenbul and Greater Flamingo.I recommend the sanparks web site and especially the forums there for really excellent advice.HTH</blockquote>