$1,081 pp (USD)
This tour is offered in ZAR.
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Arrival
Arrival
Day 1
Road Transfer & Sunset Game Drive, Pridelands, Balule Nature Reserve
Road Transfer & Sunset Game Drive, Pridelands, Balule Nature Reserve
Your shared road transfer departs OR Tambo and heads northeast, approximately 4.5 hours to Safari Moon Luxury Bush Lodge inside Hoedspruit Wildlife Estate. South Africa's safari capital.
The estate sits on the boundary of Balule Nature Reserve, one of the largest privately managed wildlife areas in the Greater Kruger ecosystem, covering over 58,000 hectares of unfenced wilderness with Kruger National Park.
Pridelands, your private game traversing concession, is a single road crossing from the estate. There is no transfer through town. There is no public vehicle queue. Within 15 minutes of pick-up, your your qualified guide has the open vehicle across the road and into Pridelands for the evening drive.
The concession is not open to the public. As the day cools and the light shifts to gold, the private traversing routes produce the kind of sightings that cannot be scheduled, and that shared public-access roads cannot protect. This is where the experience pays for itself.
- Main Destination:
- Balule Private Nature Reserve (Greater Kruger)
- Accommodation:
- Safari Moon Luxury Bush Lodge
Wildlife in Balule NR
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Full-Day Open-Vehicle Safari, Kruger National Park (Orpen Gate)
Full-Day Open-Vehicle Safari, Kruger National Park (Orpen Gate)
An early departure for Orpen Gate, 45 minutes from the lodge. Orpen feeds into Kruger's western plains, productive predator and elephant territory, and quieter than the southern gates at Phabeni or Malelane.
You are not sharing the approach road with 200 vehicles from Johannesburg. You are in the action with your guide, working sightings on a, A full day in the park in the open safari vehicle.
Your guide is working on current sightings and ranger movement reports from the moment you enter. Breakfast and lunch stops are built into the route at Kruger rest camps and picnic sites. The vehicle does not leave until late afternoon. Full day means full day, not a half-day padded with lodge time.
As a boutique operator, we do not run large groups or rush around in convoy on a schedule.
You return to Safari Moon in the late afternoon. Named lodge. Qualified guide. What you see is up to the bush. What is guaranteed: the right vehicle, the right guide, the right section of the park.
- Main Destination:
- Central Kruger National Park
- Accommodation:
- Safari Moon Luxury Bush Lodge
Wildlife in Kruger NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Optional Sunrise Safari in Balule Private Nature Reserve & Transfer Back to Johannesburg
Optional Sunrise Safari in Balule Private Nature Reserve & Transfer Back to Johannesburg
For those who want to use the morning: an optional sunrise drive in Pridelands is available at R1,390 per person. Private traversing routes at their quietest, peak predator activity, golden-hour light, and limited vehicles on the concession. The same private concession, at the hour when the bush is most alive.
Breakfast follows at Safari Moon. This is not a hotel buffet. Safari Moon is the kind of property that attracts discerning guests who could stay anywhere. Take the morning at your own pace, eat well, and let the lodge do what it does before departure.
Your transfer departs for OR Tambo after breakfast. Approximately 4.5 to 5 hours, arriving early to mid-evening.
Three days, done properly. A luxury lodge inside South Africa's safari capital, private concession access across the road, and a full day in Kruger worked by a qualified guide. Two reserves, one trip, no compromises.
- Main Destination:
- Balule Nature Reserve (Greater Kruger)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
