“I can’t believe I am having a pedicure while watching an elephant,” says my wife. The sun is up, and the elephant crossing the Sabie River is a splendid sight below her painted feet. Our suite — one of 23 converted train carriages suspended on a 300m-long bridge above one of the wildest rivers in Africa — has floor-to-ceiling glass windows, which means you can lie in bed or bath watching the greatest show on earth pass 20 metres below.
Kruger Shalati, the five-star repurposed stationary train on the bridge over the Sabie River in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, is one of the most impressive locations I’ve ever experienced. It's also an extraordinary feat of engineering. The swimming pool hovers as if airborne, cantilevered over the edge of the bridge, allowing you to cool down while watching crocs snooze on the rocks and pods of hippos snorting below.
