South Africa Travel Guide
South Africa Travel Guide
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Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve
South Africa's largest malaria-free private game reserve, Tswalu Kalahari in the Northern Cape, offers a luxury safari experience against a backdrop of sweeping grasslands, red dunes and towering mountains. Cheetahs, the famous black-maned lions of the Kalahari, white rhinos, desert black rhinos and smaller mammals such as aardvarks, pangolins and African wild cats are some of the game you can expect to encounter on this beautiful game reserve.
Timbavati Game Reserve
Bordering Kruger National Park, the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve is a vast Greater Kruger wilderness known for its quieter atmosphere, excellent Big Five viewing, and the rare occurrence of wild white lions.
Sabi Sand Game Reserve
Bordering Kruger National Park, the Sabi Sand Game Reserve is South Africa's most established private safari destination, and widely regarded as the best place in the country (and arguably the world) to see leopards in the wild.
Pilanesberg National Park
Pilanesberg National Park is one of South Africa's most accessible malaria-free Big Five safari destinations, located just 2.5 to 3 hours from Johannesburg. Set within an ancient volcanic landscape in the North West Province, Pilanesberg is especially popular for short safaris, family trips, and travellers looking for a straightforward safari experience close to the city.
Phinda Game Reserve
Phinda Private Game Reserve is not far from the well-known iSimangaliso/Greater St Lucia Wetland Park in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Phinda offers you abundant wildlife, courtesy of its incredibly diverse habitats. There, a handful of private lodges share excellent game sightings in a 23,000-hectare wilderness. Within easy distance of the warm Indian Ocean and its pristine beaches, Phinda makes for an ideal "bush and beach" safari destination.
Manyeleti Game Reserve
The Manyeleti Game Reserve is one of Greater Kruger's best-kept safari secrets — a community-owned reserve with excellent Big Five viewing, fewer vehicles than Sabi Sands, and a rare advantage: all lodges share access to almost the entire traversing area.
Madikwe Game Reserve
Madikwe Game Reserve is one of South Africa's top malaria-free Big Five safari destinations, especially popular with families travelling with children. Set near the Botswana border in North West Province, it offers exclusive lodge-based game viewing, excellent predator sightings, and some of the country's best chances of seeing African wild dogs.
Kruger National Park Area
The Greater Kruger National Park is South Africa's flagship safari destination and one of the most important wildlife conservation areas in Africa.
Klaserie Game Reserve
The Klaserie Private Nature Reserve is one of Greater Kruger's most peaceful and low-density safari areas, offering an authentic, unhurried wilderness experience with small lodges, excellent walking opportunities, and very few vehicles in the bush.
iSimangaliso Wetland Park
This 332,000-hectare park has three major lake systems, eight interlinking ecosystems, 700-year-old fishing traditions, the majority of South Africa's remaining swamp forests, Africa's largest estuarine system, 526 bird species and 25,000-year-old coastal dunes – among the highest in the world. The name iSimangaliso means miracle and wonder, which aptly describes this special and scenic place.
Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park
Formerly Hluhluwe–Umfolozi Game Reserve, Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park is the oldest proclaimed nature reserve in Africa (1895) and, for many, certainly the most scenically beautiful reserve in southern Africa. It's also the only state-run park in KwaZulu-Natal province with the Big 5.
Balule Game Reserve
The Balule Nature Reserve is the westernmost private reserve in Greater Kruger, best known for its rugged landscapes, excellent value, and the wildlife-rich corridor of the Olifants River.
