Game Encounter
Stay in a traditional African rondawel, with en suite bathroom. Game drive in open game vehicles plus visit the cheetah research centre and the highlights of the Mpumalanga panormic route. this safari has a bit of everything from very comfortable suroundings.
* at own cost
Accommodation is in traditional rondavels with en suite bathroom in a private lodge. the situated just outside the Kruger Park allowing us to enter the park early each day.
This tour is also available as a Camping Safari
Departure Days: Daily
Accommodation: Traditional Rondawel
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Tour Length: 4 days
Price: R5050
Departure points:
Johannesburg
Pretoria
Nelspruit
Includes:All transport
All accommodation
Qualified and registered guide
Meals as per itinerary
Kruger National Park game drives
Kruger Park entry fees
Cheetah & endangered species centre
Night drive inside Kruger National Park
Excludes: All drinks (except coffee
& tea with meals)
Meals not specified below
Optional game walk inside
Kruger National Park
Day 1: Tribal village or Private lodge (South Africa)
We depart early morning from Johannesburg & Pretoria for Nelspruit, where we also pick clients up. From here we drive through the mountains to Graskop where we stop to do last minute shopping and enjoy lunch (own cost). After lunch we visit God's Window, Bourke Luck Potholes, and the "Three Rondawels" view point in the world's third largest canyon - Blyde River Canyon.
Dinner included
Days 2 & 3: Kruger National Park (South Africa)
After breakfast we visit Kapama cheetah & endangered species research and breeding project, where you do a two hour tour with their staff. Here you will learn more about the endangered species of southern Africa and efforts made to re-introduce them in the wild.
We then enter Kruger National Park, which is home to 147 mammal (including the Big 5), 114 reptile, & 502 bird species. You will be doing game drives inside Kruger National Park the majority of the day, with stops at view points and hides at waterholes. You will learn plenty from the guides, who have extensive knowledge of the animals, birds and plants. They also know the park, and animal movements, which enhances your game viewing opportunities. Breakfasts and lunches will be enjoyed at picnic sites within Kruger National Park, and you will be staying at a campsite inside Kruger National Park.
We will be doing a three hour night drive (included) inside Kruger National Park with a parks board open sided vehicle and guide. During these two days you have the opportunity of doing an optional game walk that is conducted by Kruger Park rangers and is approximately two to three hours in duration.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
Cape Town
Kruger Park
Johannesburg
Sun City
St Lucia
Garden Route
Durban
Pretoria
By Province
Eastern Cape
Free State
Gauteng
KwaZulu-Natal
Limpopo
Mpumalanga
Northern Cape
North West Province
Western Cape
We start our final game drive as soon as the gates open, in search of the animals that we have not seen. We return to Johannesburg & Pretoria via Nelspruit.
Breakfast included
The first choice of accommodation is
a well decorated rondawel (left) with
en-suite bathroom. Some rondawels
have a double bed (bottom left) and
others two single beds (below). We
do our best to ensure that couples
get a rondawel with a double bed,
but can not guarantee it.
Cities
Cape Town
Johannesburg
Durban
Pretoria
Port Elizabeth
Attractions
Kruger National Park
Garden Route
St Lucia
Drakensberg
Wild Coast
Battlefields
Sun City & Pilanesberg
Provinces
Eastern Cape
Free State
Gauteng
KwaZulu-Natal
Limpopo
Mpumalanga
Northern Cape
North West province
Western Cape
The game walks inside Kruger national park is three hours in duration. These bush walks are operated by Kruger national park with two armed Kruger park guides conducting the walks.
The walks are 3 hours in duration, and starts at sunrise.
Game walks are about seeing the smaller things that you can not see from a vehicle. You will also experience the smells of the bush, and see a variety of footprints.