Gondwana Game Reserve
Gondwana Game Reserve provides the perfect safari break for Cape Town visitors. Located on South Africa’s popular Garden Route four hours’ drive from Cape Town or 45 mins from George Airport, the 11 000-hectare (26 000 acre), private, malaria-free game reserve offers a distinctive and luxurious free roaming, Big Five safari. Enjoy exhilarating game drives in a dramatic mountain and Fynbos landscape spotting elephant, buffalo, eland, lion and hippo among may other species.
World-class tourist facilities and attractions on Gondwana’s doorstep include championship golf courses such as Pinnacle Point, Fancourt and Oubaai, great swimming and surfing beaches and the attractive coastal towns of Knysna and Plettenberg Bay. This exclusive reserve offers guests attentive service, superb cuisine, inspiring interiors, expert game rangers, and an array of activities including game drives, mountain biking, Africology spa treatments, conservation activities and the popular Junior Ranger program.
Kwena Lodge offers guests 14 stand-alone bedrooms designed with a modern and luxurious twist on the traditional Khoi-San “hut”. Each romantic open plan suite is nestled into its spectacular surrounds with 180-degree views, sky lights for star gazing, wood burning fireplaces and deep baths to keep you warm upon return from an evening game drive. Lodge facilities include a chic bar and lounge area, infinity pool, multiple indoor and outdoor dining venues, bush spa, reception and curio shop.
Accommodation at Gondwana also includes deluxe Bush Villas and Fynbos Villas, which offer total privacy and spaciousness to families and groups. The deluxe three and four bedroom villas feature an open plan lounge with kitchen and dining room all opening onto a wraparound deck with magnificent valley and mountain views. Numerous packages to suit your family’s needs and budget are on offer including fully inclusive of all your meals and game drives or a bed and breakfast and daily game drive package.
Gondwana also offers a one of a kind conservation safari experience providing a behind the scenes view of a Big Five private game reserve. Participants take part in wildlife management, learn important bush skills, and enjoy downtime in the stylish tented eco camp with all meals, drinks and activities included in the three or five night package.
The uber luxe Ulubisi House is Gondwana’s most exclusive offering with your own chef, butler and field guide for the ideal safari retreat to reconnect with friends and family.
Gondwana also offers a three-night walking safari which traverses the game reserve taking you to three remote tented camp overnight locations with two full days of hiking. Your expert trail guides will intimately expose you to the Reserve’s unique biodiversity and eco systems while experiencing multiple species of game on foot. Each camp is comprised of only four deluxe bedroom tents with en-suite bathrooms and separate stylish dining and lounge tents. The Pioneer Trail is the ultimate slack packing adventure where your belongings are moved daily between the three camps, allowing you to experience the dramatic Fynbos landscape with only a light day pack.
The property is located 25 minutes the Cape Town side of Mossel Bay. Mossel Bay has so much to offer in terms of fun and adventure: from ziplining to exploring the caves at the Point to playing golf at Pinnacle Point to scuba diving to skydiving to shark cage diving to wave riders to sandboarding to parasailing to enjoying Mossel Bay’s 4 blue flag beaches at Santos, De Bakke, Hertenbos and Klein Brakrivier beaches and their water parks to riding the Diaz Express train!
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