Safari
Kruger Park
Situated in the Limpopo Province, the greater Kruger Park area covers the Kruger National Park and the surrounding private game reserves. Fencing has been taken down between these game reserves to form a huge area where animals are free to roam and migrate.
The world-renowned Kruger Park offers a wildlife experience that ranks with the best in Africa.
Established in 1889 to protect the wild-life of the South African Lowveld, this national park of nearly 2 million hectares, is unrivalled in the diversity of its life forms and a world leader in advanced environmental management techniques and policies.
A flagship of South African National Parks, Kruger is home to an impressive number of flora and fauna.
There are also many archaeological sites worth visiting highlighting man’s occupation in this area. Bushman rock painting and restored iron-age villages add to the thrill of visiting this area.
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Addo Elephant Park and the Eastern Cape Game Reserves
The Eastern Cape boasts a wealth of flora and fauna, including the ‘Big Five’ (elephant, lion, leopard, rhino and buffalo), in a malaria free environment. Probably the most well-known reserve in this vast area is the Addo Elephant National Park, wome 70km. north of Port Elizabeth in the Sundays River Valley. It was established in 1931 to save the eastern Cape or Addo elephant from imminent extinction, and has since then grown into …
Other Eastern Cape Game Reserves include an outstanding selection of private concessions and award winning private Game Reserves and Lodges. The coastal waters are rich in marine life, with abundant dolphins and the occasional whale spotted from the beaches.
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Madikwe Game Reserve
Madikwe Game Reserve provides the ultimate wildlife encounter. Teeming with game, Madikwe is South Africa’s fourth largest game reserve. This malaria free sandveld reserve is widely acknowledged as South Africa’s best kept secret in terms of the quality of the wildlife experience on offer.
Madikwe Game Reserve is best known for Operation Phoenix, the world’s largest game re-introduction program which took place from 1991 to 1997. The reserve is now home to healthy populations of lion, wild dog, leopard, cheetah, brown and spotted hyena, black and white rhino, hippo, buffalo, elephant and a variety of plains game including sable, gemsbok, eland, zebra, wildebeest, springbok, impala, giraffe and more.
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