Timbavati Safari Lodges

A visit to South Africa without going on a safari to Kruger National Park is not complete! The vast majority of visitors choose Kruger National Park for the authentic safari experience it provides. Kruger National Park offers many accommodation options at prices suitable to all visitors and all budgets, from self catering options at the various rest camps to luxury lodges on private concessions with Kruger National Park.

Many visitors  choose the self drive option where you can hire a car and drive through Kruger National Park as a day visitor or when staying at one of the rest camps. Kruger National Park luxury lodges offer a great safari experience which include all meals, sometimes most drinks and 2 game drives per/day with experienced and well informed safari guides.

The main aim for anyone visiting the Kruger National Park is to view Africa's Big Five in their natural habitat, roaming free without fences or barriers and interacting with the different other species.

The Big Five is a term developed by hunters in the early 20th century which described the most dangerous five animals to hunt on foot; Lion, Leopard, Cape Buffalo, Elephant & Rhino. Here you will find a selection of safari lodges inside Kruger National Park which we recommend to make your visit to South Africa the perfect African safari holiday.

There are a number of Private Wildlife Reserves bordering the Kruger National Park, all of them offer luxury private safari lodge accommodation and superb safari experience.

Private Game Reserves near Kruger like Sabi Sands or Timbavati are very well-known and offer some of the best private and luxury safari lodges in South Africa. There are no fences; the animals roam freely between Kruger Park and the Private Game Reserves. Spot the wild animals from your lodge while they are gathering around a waterhole or go on day or night drives in open land rovers. For the adventurers, bush walks are also available. Other game reserves are fenced, however they provide visitors the opportunity to see Africa's Big Five in their natural habitats in the shortest time possible.

Truly the flagship of the South African National Parks, this enormous and magnificent park is one of the most popular public-entry game parks in the world. Few visitors leave South Africa without visiting the Kruger National Park or one of the private reserves along its borders but it is also frequented by locals in their own vehicles, as you can drive yourself around and stay overnight in one of the many public rest camps. There are also a few exclusive private lodges that have been granted concessions within the Kruger National Park. Kruger has 12 main rest camps, 5 bushveld camps, 2 bush lodges and 4 satellite camps.

The world-renowned Kruger National Park offers a wildlife experience that ranks with the best in Africa. Established in 1898 to protect the wildlife of the South African Lowveld, this national park is unrivalled in the diversity of its life forms and a world leader in advanced environmental management techniques and policies. Kruger is home to an impressive number of species: 336 trees, 49 fish, 34 amphibians, 114 reptiles, 507 birds and 147 mammals.

Man’s interaction with the lowveld environment over many centuries – from bushman rock paintings to majestic archaeological sites like Masorini and Thulamela – is very evident in the Kruger National Park. These treasures represent the cultures, persons and events that played a role in the history of the Kruger National Park and are conserved along with the park’s natural assets.