ZAR 121932 per single traveller
Includes: Return transfers from Johannesburg, accommodation, open vehicle safari drives, meals as per itinerary, local beverages
The 96 roomed Shearwater Explorers Village is a superb 3 star Lodge situated only 400m from the Victoria Falls.
The property boasts 54 deluxe rooms, 42 standard rooms and also offers some serviced camping facilities.
It is so close to the Falls that it occasionally receives an early morning shower from the Falls spray. The property overlooks virgin African bush and a waterhole frequently visited by elephant and buffalo and yet it is very near the craft markets and entertainment district.
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 four-day safari.
The Panorama Route refers to the escarpment area in Mpumalanga Province where the Drakensberg mountains separate the Highveld from the Lowveld to the east. The Panorama Route along the escarpment is one of South Africa’s most scenic areas and include the Blyde canyon that extends for 50kms along the escarpment.
This safari offers a full-day safari in the Kruger National Park as well as a full-day tour of the Panorama Route.
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 five-day itinerary will include a sunset / night safari on day 1, a full-day open vehicle safari on day 2, a full-day Panorama Route on day 3 and 2 morning safaris in the Kruger Park on Day 4 and 5.
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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Accommodation
The safari uses Umbhaba Eco Lodge in Hazyview, outside Kruger National Park, with en suite accommodation and excellent meals located 15 minutes from either the Phabeni or Numbi gates.
Fringing the Karongwe Game Reserve, Shiduli Private Game Lodge offers an unrivalled African safari experience, complemented by warmth and hospitality. Guests will enjoy its relaxed ambience with a lush indigenous garden, lounges with Internet facilities, bar, sparkling pool and thatched dining areas. Shiduli Private Game Lodge lies against the backdrop of the magnificent Drakensberg Mountains and is the perfect venue for enjoying the African bush. With its grace and elegance, yet warmth and hospitality, it lends itself to a perfect family getaway, with children of all ages.
The 3-day Imbali safari tour takes guests to the heart of the Kruger National Park to the Mluwati Concession. Glorious days at Imbali Safari Lodge are spent exploring the vast wilderness region on sunrise and sunset game drives and enjoying hours of relaxation and pampering back at the lodge, as well as a magical “sofa safari” from the privacy of their own viewing deck. 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.
Varty camp’s guest living areas are raised off the ground under a large, double volume thatch roof. There are 10 chalets, including two superior chalets. Chalets feature king-size beds draped with mosquito nets and 100% crisp white cotton linen, spacious bathrooms with indoor showers and a free-standing bath, air-conditioning, fans and a lounge with a minibar and tea and coffee facilities. The superior chalets have outdoor showers. Outdoors, a private swimming pool framed by a timber deck, all overlooking riverine bush, offers the ultimate in relaxation.
You are collected from your address in Johannesburg early for the journey east via the N4 motorway through the Highveld of Gauteng and Mpumalanga, down the escarpment through the scenic Lowveld until you reach the game reserve inside the Greater Kruger National Park.
During the scenic 6 hours’ drive you will stop for refreshments and reach the lodge around mid-day.
You will have time to freshen up and relax before departing on an open safari vehicle for your first afternoon game drive and sunset in the reserve.
Back at the lodge a delicious dinner with African ambience will wait for you.
You overnight in your luxury accommodation at Londolozi Varty Camp and your deal includes lunch and dinner.
You will receive an early wake-up call and be served a hot beverage and rusks before departing on your 3-hour game drive while the sun rises over the veld.
On return to the lodge you can enjoy a late breakfast and choose to spend the rest of the day at the gym, pool or just lazing around on the decks.
The afternoon 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 Londolozi Varty Camp and your deal includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Wake up early, enjoy a hot beverage and rusk, and depart on your last morning game drive.
After witnessing 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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