Safari Lodges

There are many accommodation options while on safari. There are lodges and safari camps both inside and outside the Game Reserves and National Parks. Most have all the amenities including hot showers, comfortable beds and some of the camps includ restaurants, convenience shops and swimming pools.

Many of the camps have maps of the park where visitors mark the animal sightings each day. At the end of a day of game viewing it is interesting to see which animals where sighted in the Park and to contribute by identifying where you spotted your animals.

Meals and refreshments can be enjoyed outdoors, with panoramic views of the park, inside Hluhluwe Game Park's Hilltop Camp.

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Self Drive Safari

My South Africa Tour self drive safari clients can relax and enjoy their holiday knowing that their game drives and accommodations have already been arranged. With each tour our clients have their reservation numbers and directions to the lodge and which takes the guess work out of independent travel.

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Game Reserves and National Parks

Hluhluwe/Imfolozi Big 5 Safari Game Reserve

This is Africa’s oldest game reserve established in 1895 and offers the Big 5 of Elephant, Lion, Leopard, Buffalo and Black and White Rhino. With 96,000 hectares it is one of South Africa’s largest game parks. Once the Royal hunting ground of the Zulu kings, Hluhluwe-Imfolozi is today perhaps best known for its White Rhino revival program of the 1950s when these pre-historic animals were saved from extinction

Kruger National Park
Olifants River in the Kruger National Park
Around 1838 Voortrekker expeditions led by Louis Trichardt and Hans van Rensburg were able to successfully establish forward outposts in the lowveld area. Hundreds of Europeans and farmers came to the Lowveld in the 1870s lured by rumours of gold and the great quantity of valuable commodities such as ivory and skins. This caused the number of game to dramatically decrease due to hunting and trading of animal skins and horns. President Paul Kruger, when told about the rapid destruction of wildlife in the area by hunters, succeeded in persuading the Transvaal parliament to establish a protected area for the wildlife in the Lowveld region. The Sabie Game Reserve, bordered by the Crocodile River in the south, the Sabie River in the north, the Lebombo Mountains in the east and the Drakensberg Mountains in the west, was established in 1898 and today forms the southern part of the Kruger National Park. The Anglo-Boer War stopped any further development of the reserve, but the British, after winning the war, proceeded with the plan to develop the Sabie Game Reserve and gave the task to Major James Stevenson-Hamilton in 1902 to protect the animals against hunters, ivory poachers and cattle farmers. Stevenson-Hamilton was the first park warden and spent the next 40 years at the park. The Park was opened to the public in 1927 for visitors to view animals and plant life in an area where they are protected. Today the Kruger National Park is nearly 20,000 square kilometers in size.

The Great St. Lucia Wetland Park World Heritage Site
In December 1999 The Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The ecological linkages between the five ecosystems found in the park have been a major attraction for research on the geomorphological and biological processes that occur there. Geographically diverse, the park contains superlative scenic vistas along its 220-km coast. Natural phenonema include shifting salinity states linked to wet and dry climatic cycles. The ongoing fluvial, marine and aeolian processes in the site have produced a variety of landforms, including coral reefs, long sandy beaches, coastal dunes, lake systems, swamps and extensive reed and papyrus wetlands. The interplay of the park's environmental heterogeneity with major floods and coastal storms and a transitional geographic location between subtropical and tropical Africa has resulted in exceptional species diversity and ongoing speciation. The mosaic of landforms and habitat types creates breathtaking scenic vistas. The site contains critical habitats for a range of species from Africa's marine, wetland and savannah environments.

Milwane Wildlife Sanctuary
Milwane, which means Little Fire, is Swaziland’s pioneer conservation area. It is a beautiful, secluded sanctuary situated in Swaziland’s “Valley of Heaven”, the Ezulwini Valley, in between Mbabane and Manzini. This 4,500 hectare sanctuary serves as a headquarters for the Big Game Parks including Mlilwane’s sister reserves Hlane and Mkhaya. Milwane can be explored by foot, vehicle, on horseback and on mountain bikes. The south is predominately open grassland plains with middleveld vegetation stretching up onto the striking Nyonyane Mountain with its exposed granite peak known as the "Rock of Execution". It is here that the ancient San once lived and where the Swazi Royal graves are situated. Behind Nyonyane are the stunning Mantenga waterfalls and beautiful Usushwana Valley. Accommodation is in modern but bee-hive style huts with thatched roofs and en-suite bathrooms. A relaxing restaurant, rich in atmosphere, with viewing deck offers the visitor hippos at close range in the pools below and the beautiful valley beyond.