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User Reviews of Hlane Royal National Park (3 Reviews)

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Male avatar icon Babin France flag FR       Visited: July 2025 Reviewed: Jul 11, 2025

Email Babin  |  under20 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

The review below is the personal opinion of Babin and not that of SafariBookings.

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The parc it self is amazing and offers a good diversity ou animals and plants to see. However when I've been there I saw that the part with the white rihnos of south was completely invaded with sickle bush which is a invasive species. It isn't eaten by any animals and make the grasse not to grow so we saw some impalas with skin on the bones.

We still saw a lot of animals even a troupe of baboon that we did not expect to see. The bird view offers a perfect spots for photos an observation. Most of the animals appeared to be used to human presence.

Female avatar icon fivetoedtravels Canada flag CA       Visited: February 2018 Reviewed: Sep 10, 2018

Email fivetoedtravels  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

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Spectacular! With our knowledgeable guide, we saw giraffes lunching on leaves, a pride of lions snoozing, elephants flapping their huge ears to keep cool, hippos submerged in water pools, and most special of all, walked close to about 20 white rhinos, and watched them eat, nap, scratch themselves on tree branches and roll about in a mudbath. Brilliant!

Male avatar icon Arthur Chapman Australia flag AU       Visited: May 2018 Reviewed: Jul 20, 2018

Email Arthur Chapman  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

Explored the park for 4 hours (50 km) and saw Elephant, Giraffe, Buffalo, Hippos and lots more

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Left Mbabane early in the fog and arrived at the Hlane National Park at around 9am. Explored the park for 4 hours (50 km) and saw Elephant, Giraffe, Buffalo, Hippos and large herds of Impala, Warthogs and lots of birds. Unfortunately, no Rhino or Lions. It was a good drive and I saw no other vehicle in that four hours – I think I had the park to myself.

The time I was there it was quite dry (in the middle of a drought) so probably saw fewer animals than might otherwise have been as many of the waterholes were dry.

I stopped at the Park Restaurant for lunch and had a delicious Impala and Cheese Jaffle, chips and salad.

The park was a great place to see animal. I self drove through the park. It could have a few more sign posts as it was not always clear from the map, exactly which track one was on. You do need at least half a day to see the park properly - unfortunately, my schedule only allowed me to spend half a day in the park.