Free entry into the KNP and activities planned for SANParks Week

MALALANE – If you have been wanting to visit the Kruger National Park (KNP), but do not have the funds to bring the entire family along, you can finally schedule your visit for next week.

In celebration of SA National Parks Week, all South African day visitors gain free access into the country’s national parks from September 18 to 22.

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Through this initiative, SANParks hopes to create awareness of national parks and teach South Africans more about environmental conservation.

By letting day visitors enter the KNP for free, people in communities bordering the park and elsewhere, who have never visited, can do so.

Like every year, the KNP has a line-up packed with activities to bring various stakeholders into the park.

In the evenings of September 18 to 22, fireside stories consisting of traditional dances, drumming and choral music will be held at Skukuza.

The Skukuza Science Leadership Centre, a hub for research and science education, will be launched on September 21. It will help enhance exchange programmes between local and international science students, scientists and researchers, as well as learning opportunities involving communities bordering the national parks.

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To qualify for the free access, day visitors will need to present their identity document. Only children under 16 years will be allowed to gain entry without proof of identity.

Commercial groups such as tour buses and private open safari vehicle operators, as well as overnight visitors, do not qualify for free entrance.

Normal daily quotas will apply at the gates and preference will be given to visitors according to order of arrival.

For more information, visit www.sanparks.org.