The squeaking of the mosquito door at the chalet.
The chirping of crickets while you are staring into the flames of your evening braai.
A hyena calling after sunset.
The grunting of a hippo when you stop in a quiet spot overlooking a river to have coffee and rusks.
The sound of silence.
Can you hear it?
Kruger has so many sounds and they all contribute to the best soundtrack in the world. And obviously Kruger would be nothing without the calls of some of its most iconic birds.
Nothing announces the arrival of summer more than the call of the Woodland Kingfisher. I heard many of them and there Trrrp-Trrrrrrrr was louder than ever before.
The Rattling Cisticola is one of the smallest birds, but also one of the most vocal. What would Kruger be without one of these little ones calling loudly from the top of almost every bush in Kruger?
I know Little Swifts occur throughout South Africa. But one of my favourite things to do is to have coffee on the Olifants River bridge, and there are always many of these little birds around. I have come to associate their bell-like calls with Kruger. There were hundreds of these little birds in the sky above Satara. At Nsemani dam the sky was also black with these little fast-moving dots.
During this trip there was another bird that added to the Kruger soundtrack in a big way – the Emerald-spotted Wood dove. I heard them more frequently than ever before, especially in the area around the Tamboti camp. 
And then there is probably the most iconic sound not just of Kruger, but of Africa. The African Fish Eagle. No matter how many times I hear the call of the Fish Eagle, I look up every time and smile.