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.