Things still fine here as long as I am not asking about time share and how to get shares to go cycling and play volleyball at Tsendze.
Back to KTP. I think very few people realised why KTP is the only pristine wilderness area in South Africa and easily get influence by marketing tricks.
Looking at the history of NP in South Africa you will note that KTP is one of your oldest parks, besides Kruger, but the least visited in the past 81 years. The park was proclaimed in 1931 and even 50 years later in the 80's very few people visited the park including myself.(Peter Betts was one of the few visitors at that time).
My first visit was in 1998 when we decided to see where the road north of Upington lead us to. We did not even booked, had no camping equipment with us and still got a chalet (room) at Nossob sharing the bathroom and kitchen area with another guest from PE (maybe Peter then
).Only 5 years after our first visit more people started to visit the park and an increasing rate so that it is currently difficult to get a booking a few hours after the bookings open. Why did the park become that popular the past 5 years while it was nearly dormant for 75 years?
To get the true answer one need to ask those visiting the park and I will not be able to give the reason.What is strange to me is the fact that people didn't visit the park before while they travelled much further to Kruger for example, but now everyone wants to come and bring their toys along. Is it to experience the park no matter how the accommodation looks like or do people now visit because the facilities improved, the road to the park is better or advertising played a role. Most likely a bit of all. The increase in visitors helped the park in generating income, but with the ever increasing demand in more activities, lodges and accommodation will the park not loose it appeal and the reason people wanted to visited the park in the first place.
I am just wondering if the reasons why so many more people are visiting the park are not becuase of what you will find in the park, but to keep up with the Jones and tick off that I've done it, been their and got the T-shirt.
My volleyball club (I don't play - only coach 
Point is, this and running in Skukz, fishing in the KNP, etc should never have happened/never have been considered. It just doesn't gel. 
How can you put a price on a sighting, but it worries me even more what it can lead to 
Already the sightings in Kruger are being passed via GMS (or whatever it's called 
) and that is bad enough. Where has the joy of game viewing gone 
