Timbavati Private Game Reserve is approximately 53,000 hectares and forms part of the Greater Kruger National Park. That means that animals can roam freely between Kruger National Park (the government owned and run park) and Timbavati, which is privately owned (by multiple land owners), as well as other Greater Kruger reserves like Thornybush and Sabi […]
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Madikwe Private Game Reserve
Madikwe Private Game Reserve is a 76,000 hectare reserve in the Northwest of South Africa, practically at the Botswanan border (at the edge of the Kalahari). It is a comparatively young reserve, transformed about 25 years ago in 1991 from farmland. When you are driving around the reserve you can still see it is recovering […]
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In May this year we were lucky enough to spend one night at Jaci’s Tree Lodge – our second stay in a lodge within Madikwe Game Reserve. We were very excited to check it out, after having stayed a couple of times at one of their sister lodges Cheetah Plains in Sabi Sands game reserve. […]
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We were very excited to spend two nights in Thornybush Game Reserve as neither Van nor I had ever been there before! We had heard various reports of them dropping their fences to Timbavati (and thus becoming part of the Greater Kruger), but on the way there Van was confident the fences were still up, […]
Categories: ACCOMMODATION DESTINATIONS SOUTH AFRICA THORNYBUSH Posted onTau Game Lodge, Madikwe Private Game Reserve
When we arrived at Tau Game Lodge we were coming from 12 nights in the Kgalagadi, half of which were spent camping and the other half in chalets or ‘luxury’ tents in wilderness camps. We were dusty, we were tired and we were sick of driving! That was particularly as we had just spent […]
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So you are lucky enough to be booking a trip in South Africa’s amazing Kruger National Park but not sure where you should be staying? I CAN HELP YOU. I have stayed in almost all the main rest camps from the north to the south, and spent many hundreds of hours driving around. In fact, […]
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