ZAR 47120 per single traveller
Includes: Return transfers from Johannesburg,  accommodation, open vehicle safari drives, meals as per itinerary, local beverages
The 4-day Imbali safari tour takes guests to the heart of the Kruger National Park to the Mluwati Concession. Imbali Safari Lodge is one of three luxury safari lodges in the private concession and promises guests luxurious accommodation in a spectacular setting and an outstanding safari experience. The private concessions within the iconic Kruger National Park are areas of land where carefully selected operators have a license to offer all the benefits of a luxury safari lodge on a private reserve. Guests staying at Imbali Lodge are taken on game drives in an open safari vehicle within the private concession and have access to the public roads of Kruger Park.
The Kruger National Park is one of the world’s premier nature reserves, and you will spend a significant amount of time exploring it during this three-day safari.Â
Many safari operators only offer three-hour morning and afternoon drives, but the Kruger National Park is vast, and this safari is one of only few that offers a full-day safari on a three-day safari tour.
This allows clients to see more of the Kruger and different areas, as opposed to short 3-hour safaris. On such short safaris, drivers must stay close to the camps, resulting in the same areas being driven on every safari.Â
A full day in the Kruger National Park may sound exhausting, but the guides make frequent stops at rest stops and lookout points. As you travel through different grasslands and ecological zones, you will have a better chance of seeing more wildlife.
Your three-day itinerary will include a sunset / night safari on day 1, a full-day open vehicle safari on day 2, and a morning safari in Kruger National Park on day 3.
On 3-day safaris, your chances are very good to see all of the Big 5 – lion, leopard, rhino, elephant and buffalo.
The Kruger National Park is home to 148 mammal and 500 bird species. So there’s a lot to see and photograph.
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You will stay at Umbhaba Eco Lodge, a privately owned quality lodge in Hazyview, with en suite accommodation and excellent meals located 15 minutes from either the Phabeni or Numbi gates.
Chitwa Chitwa Lodge breathes style in an eclectic fusion of African chic and contemporary European design. At this lodge you will enjoy unbridled luxury, only topped by the beauty of its setting next to a large lake in Sabi Sand, an ever popular watering hole for local wildlife. This location means spectacular game-spotting without leaving your seat, whether from your private deck, the chic lounge or while enjoying wonderful cuisine in the dining room or lake-side lapa.
The reserve offers magnificent game viewing, perfect photographic opportunities and the lush vegetation houses hundreds of different bird species. Game drives are led by qualified game rangers and Shangaan trackers who are enthusiastic to share their experience of the African Bush and may offer you a chance to view the elusive cheetah from nearby.
Elephant Plains Game Lodge opened its doors in 1998 and has been in the same family ever since. The lodge is situated on the dry Manyeleti riverbed, overlooking an open veld and watering hole. The main building houses a reception area, dining areas, lounge, bar and wine cellar, as well as a curio shop for those souvenirs.  It can accommodate a maximum of 24 guests, guaranteeing a warm, friendly atmosphere and personal service.
You are collected from your address in Johannesburg in the early morning and travel via the N4 motorway eastwards through the Highveld of Gauteng and Mpumalanga and down the escarpment to the scenic Lowveld until you reach the reserve inside the Greater Kruger National Park.
During the long six hours’ drive you will stop for refreshments and reach the lodge around mid-day.
You can first freshen up and relax a while before departing with a guide on an open safari vehicle for your first afternoon game drive in the reserve.
Back at the lodge a scrumptious dinner in friendly ambience will await you.
You overnight in your luxury accommodation at Elephant Plains Game Lodge and your deal includes lunch and dinner.Â
You will rise early and be served a selection of hot beverages and rusks before departing on your 3-hour morning game drive, with the sun rising in the east.
On return to the lodge you can enjoy a late breakfast and choose to spend the rest of the day at the pool, library or lazing around.
Your afternoon open vehicle game drive with an expert guide will commence at about 16:00, to return in time for another starlit dinner.
You overnight in your luxury accommodation at Elephant Plains Game Lodge and your deal includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.Â
Rise early again, enjoy a hot beverage and rusk, and say goodbye to the bush during a last morning game drive.
After enjoying a last African sunrise, you return to the lodge for breakfast before departing to Johannesburg. You will arrive at your drop-off point at approximately 17:00.
Your deal today includes breakfast at the lodge.
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