Game Encounter Safari
Stay in a traditional African rondawel, with en suite bathroom. Game drive in open game vehicles plus a night drive and the highlights of the Mpumalanga panormic route. This safari has a bit of everything from very comfortable suroundings.
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 an Camping Safari
Special Web Only Offer! Book during April 2008 for any departure and receive a R250 discount per person.
Day 1: Panoramic route - Blyde river canyon (South Africa)
The tour departs early morning from Johannesburg and Pretoria, heading east towards Nelspruit where we also pick clients up. We will stop en-route for breakfast (own cost). From Nelspruit we drive further north where we stop for lunch (own cost) & banks in Graskop.
After lunch we drive through the panoramic route where we stop at God's Window, Bourke Luck Potholes and the 3rd largest canyon in the world - the Blyde River Canyon.
See the above links for more information & photos of each night's accommodation.
Dinner included
Day 2: Kruger National Park (South Africa)
A very short drive takes us to Kruger National Park (arrive as the gates open) that is home to 147 mammal (incl. the Big 5), 114 reptile, & 502 bird species. You will be transferred to open sided 4 x 4 game viewing vehicles (on arrival at the park) in which we will do game drives for the rest of the day. Breakfast and lunch will be enjoyed at one of the picnic sites inside Kruger National Park. At sunset you will start with a 3 hour night drive, done in a Kruger Park open sided game viewing vehicle with a Kruger National Park guide. This is a great opportunity to see nocturnal animals not normally seen during the day game drives.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
Day 3: Kruger National Park (South Africa)
We start the day with a cup of coffee / tea, before heading out on a game drive as the gates open (in open 4x4 game viewing vehicles). You will be on a game drive for the majority of the day, searching for as many animals as possible. Breakfast and lunch will be enjoyed at picnic sites inside Kruger national park.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
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
Departure Days: Daily
Accommodation: Traditional Rondawel
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Tour Length: 4 days
Price: R4450
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
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
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.
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.