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Alison Wragg
GB
Visited:
October 2016
Reviewed: Aug 30, 2025
Email Alison Wragg | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Beautiful reserve with excellent wildlife
I particularly enjoyed this reserve with it's hilly scenery and lush vegetation. We had the most incredible views of elephants at a water hole right by our vehicle. We stayed quite a while as a large group of up to 40 gradually gathered, drinking and playing in the muddy pool. We also saw more at other parts of the drive.
Other mammals included a large herd of buffalo, warthog, rhino and zebra all right by us. We only saw one reptile, a big monitor lizard. Birds we saw were yellow-billed kite, beautiful red bishops and a spectacular black-bellied bustard.
There are no giraffe, as the terrain is unsuitable, and we didn't see any big cats, I'm not sure if there are any.
It's 9 years now since this trip, but I haven't forgotten it!
Louise Dixon
NZ
Visited:
January 2024
Reviewed: Feb 10, 2024
Email Louise Dixon | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Mike
GB
Visited:
October 2023
Reviewed: Oct 28, 2023
Email Mike | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Amazing experience but the toilets and ablutions at the entry gates were horrendous.
Been to this reserve a number of times but I must say my experience today left me disappointed. No pos machine at the main gate to pay by card . No pos machine in the Hilltop restaurant and the food was mediocre . Limited wine available as their liquor license had expired. The gardens at hilltop have also deteriorated since my last visit and I can see attention to detail is missing .
Brenda
ZA
Visited:
May 2021
Reviewed: May 27, 2021
Email Brenda | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Game is wonderful, the accommodation very much below par. Staff not much better
Stuart
GB
Visited:
January 2020
Reviewed: Feb 1, 2020
Email Stuart | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
An excellent game park but let down by poor maintenance and management
1) There were only 2 x washing machines for the whole camp and both were broken!!! On inquiring I learnt they had been out of order for at least two weeks prior to our arrival.
2) Secondly, the swimming pool was full of green water. Completely unusable for lack of regular cleaning and maintenance. It looked as though the pool had been in this condition for weeks.
3) The shop, as advertised on the website was virtually empty of anything useful apart from small quantities of tea sugar plus two small loaves of bread. The shelves were empty due to nobody ordering stock and goodness only knows for how long. We had to waste a morning driving out of the park to buy groceries.
4) On several occasions
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there did not seem to be enough restaurant or bar staff on duty resulting in long waits.I strongly urge management not to forget that things do breakdown and therefore have to be repaired in a timely fashion. Shelves don't restock themselves neither do swimming pools clean themselves. It's called management!!!
Andrea
US
Visited:
September 2019
Reviewed: Oct 16, 2019
Email Andrea | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Being a national park the animals are more spread out and there was definitely a drive or two we didn’t see much, but the bush walk was amazing.
Trish
Loved every minute! We saw Rhino up close! Fantastic!!!!!
Everything was exactly what the dream expected. We never saw any of the Cat Family, but made up for it with Rhino sightings from the moment we entered the Park, and loved being so close to Elephant too. The scenery was breathtaking, amazing to travel from thick bush into open savanna.
We stayed in a tent in Mpila, very clean and comfortable rooms, and had the pleasure of watching the Hyena trying to "steal" our dinner each evening.
The Admin Staff were absolutely fantastic and helpful and everyone was so friendly
Would we go back again? You bet!
Douglas Hibbard
CA
Visited:
October 2017
Reviewed: Nov 24, 2017
Email Douglas Hibbard | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
It is a beautiful reserve with a great camp at Hilltop. The wildlife viewing was amazing. Spending 30 minutes with a pack of Wild Dog with no other vehicles was truly amazing.
scarlettvixxen007
AU
Visited:
September 2017
Reviewed: Nov 19, 2017
Email scarlettvixxen007 | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
PyLb29
FR
Visited:
January 2017
Reviewed: Sep 25, 2017
Email PyLb29 | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Combined with a cruise on the Pongola River, it was especially a relaxing moment to enjoy the scenery rather than a discovery of species. The visit of the animals in the encampments, zebras for example, remains a pleasant moment.