The revised & updated self-drive companion — routes, roads and ratings for the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
Text by Ingrid van den Berg · Published by HPH Publishing
This is not a park you skim. It's 3.8 million hectares where the difference between a great trip and a flat afternoon is knowing the road.
The Kgalagadi rewards the driver who reads it — who knows that distance on a map means nothing against travelling time at game-viewing pace, that the light and the lion cross the same road at the same hour, and that a wrong turn onto soft sand can cost you a morning.
This book is a navigator, not decoration for the shelf. Every kilometre we've driven, rated and mapped, so you can spend your days where the park pays out.
Every stretch of road carries three numbers — so you drive where the park actually delivers, not where the map looks shortest.
What you can realistically expect to see along each stretch — the game-viewing odds, road by road.
How the surface drives — corrugation, soft sand, and where a 4x4 stops being optional.
Real travelling time at game-viewing pace — not map distance divided by a hopeful speed.
The reward of knowing the roads — golden-hour big cats, exactly where and when the ratings said they'd be.
Gate hours & travelling times, all in one navigable map.
SANParks camps, Botswana wilderness campsites and private lodges — with camp-by-camp booking rules and border logic.
SANParks & Botswana trails, graded and mapped for real conditions.
Plants, reptiles, 100+ birds and mammals — identify what you see from the vehicle.
The family behind HPH Publishing's award-winning wildlife titles — decades in the Kgalagadi, distilled into one navigable book.
"We drove the Nossob at dawn exactly as the book rated it and had four lion sightings before breakfast."
— Retief M., PretoriaShips everywhere · Secure checkout at HPH Publishing.