Klaserie Game Reserve – 4 nights Klaserie | 3 nights Victoria Falls
Overview
We are back home in the states. Thank you so much for all your help organizing the best trip ever! Senala was fabulous! Not the most luxurious but fit our personalities perfectly. The staff is what makes it so special. Every person we met there seemed to genuinely love what they were doing. And the way the drives, camp, and the meals are set up seems to foster a true sense of camaraderie among the guests. My daughter and I both are hoping to return!
The Kingdom was nice. The grounds and pool area were pretty. It was a very easy walk to the Falls. Staff was a little hit or miss but nothing at all to seriously complain about.
Wild Horizons did a great job with all the transfers – everything went smoothly on their part with the exception of the 6 am pick up for the microlight flight – Apparently they had everything in place except the pick up at the hotel. I appreciated that they acknowledged that it was their mistake and immediately did what they could to take care of it (Ben came in his personal vehicle to pick us up to take us to the border for transfer).
Thank you for everything, I truly hope I will be contacting you again for a return visit!!
On arrival at Hoedspruit Airport, you will make your way to the car hire kiosk to collect your hired car. You will take a leisurely drive to your lodge in the Klaserie Game Reserve, part of the Greater Kruger National Park. You have time to settle in at your lodge before you set off on the afternoon game drive.
Flight time – Johannesburg to Hoedspruit: approx 1 hours
Driving time – Hoedspruit to Klaserie: approx 1½ hours
Klaserie Private Nature Reserve forms part of the 2 million hectare Greater Kruger National Park. It is one of the largest privately owned nature reserves in South Africa – covering 60 000 hectares on either side of the Klaserie River. The private nature of this wilderness sanctuary enables visitors to embrace the African bushveld. It allows guests to take in the sights, sounds and smells that make the bushveld such a unique experience. Safaris within this unspoilt region of the Greater Kruger National Park focus on the bush and its ecosystems.
Klaserie is part of an exclusive, privately-owned wildlife sanctuary. The area is renowned as a home to the Big 5 and offers incredible game viewing opportunities.
Guests can expect to see lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, buffalo as well as an abundance of plains game and incredible birdlife, whilst experiencing it all on guided walks, off road, and at night.
After your morning game drive and brunch, you will set off through Klaserie to your lodge in the Mpumalanga Lowveld. The rest of the afternoon is at leisure to relax in the gardens of your lodge.
Driving time –Klaserie to Hazyview/White River: Approx. 3 hours
Mpumalanga is considered to be one of the most geographically diverse and unbelievably beautiful places in South Africa. Mpumalanga lies in the east of South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. In the northeast, the land rises towards mountain peaks and then terminates in an immense escarpment. In some places, this escarpment plunges hundreds of meters down to the low-lying area known as the Lowveld.
People are drawn to Mpumalanga by the magnificent scenery, by the fauna and flora and by the saga of the 1870s gold rush era and a wealth of fascinating tribal legends. Mountains, panoramic passes, valleys, rivers, waterfalls and forests characterize the landscape.
This morning you will take a drive through to Nelspruit for your flight to Livingstone, Zambia (Victoria Falls).
Upon arrival at Livingstone Airport, you are met by a driver from Wild Horizons and transferred across the border into Zimbabwe and to your hotel.
Driving time – Hazyview to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport: approx 50 minutes
Flight time – Nelspruit to Livingstone: approx 2½ hours
Transfer time – Livingstone Airport to Victoria Falls hotels: approx 40 minutes
Besides being one of the seven natural wonders of the world and a World Heritage Site, Victoria Falls is the unchallenged adventure capital of Africa with more than 50 activities available.
The Victoria Falls is considered to be the largest waterfall in the world. See the mighty Zambezi River as it thunders over the 1700 metre wide Victoria Falls and plunges 100 metres into a narrow gorge below. The great columns of spray rising from the tumultuous falls can be seen from 80 kilometres away on a clear day. If you are lucky enough to be there at full moon, a “moonbow” can be seen in the spray instead of the usual daylight rainbow.
This morning is at leisure until you are transferred to Victoria Falls Airport for your flight to Johannesburg.
