Perhaps the most famous destination in South Africa is the Kruger National Park. The surface area of Kruger National Park is 7,580 miles² (19,633 km²). The park was first proclaimed in 1898 as the Sabie Game Reserve by the then president of the Transvaal Republic, Paul Kruger. He first proposed the need to protect the animals of the Lowveld in 1884, but his revolutionary vision took another 12 years to be realized when the area between the Sabie and Crocodile Rivers was set aside for restricted hunting. Some interesting facts about this area:
There are almost 254 known cultural heritage sites in the Kruger National Park, including nearly 130 recorded rock art sites.
There is ample evidence that prehistoric man – Homo erectus roamed the area between 500 000 and 100 000 years ago.
Cultural artifacts and more than 300 archaeological sites of Stone Age man have been found for the period 100 000 to 30 000 years ago.
Evidence of Bushman Folk (San) and Iron Age people from about 1500 years ago is also in great evidence.
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