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Gondwana Game Reserve, a Big 5 safari on the Garden Route
The Journey
Four Hours From Cape Town.
Gondwana Private Game Reserve covers 11,000 hectares of critically endangered fynbos and renosterveld near Mossel Bay on the Garden Route, with sweeping views of the Langeberg and Outeniqua mountains. The Big Five roam freely here, and the reserve is malaria free.
A Day Unhuried
The vehicle leaves at first light. The rest of the day arranges itself.
The day begins before you do. At first light your guide takes you into a reserve already awake: sunbirds calling, the mountains catching their first gold, a coffee stop in the open bush.
After breakfast the day is yours. A swim, a walk through the Protected Area, a spa treatment, an e-bike safari. Then lunch, tea, and an afternoon drive that ends with a drink among the fynbos as the light turns to gold. Dinner is back at the lodge, at your own pace.
Everything here keeps time with the land.
Stay
Every place to stay here is made for being together. Choose who you bring.
Kwena Lodge
Ridge-top suites and villas, with waterholes and mountains in views. Guests aged 12 and over.
Lehele Lodge
Private family villas, long afternoons by the pool, and the Junior Ranger Programme. Where children are at home.
Private Residences
Four private residences, entirely your own. Each sleeps up to six, with a private chef, field guide and game viewer for the whole of your stay.
Ulubisi House
A private residence with its own chef, butler and field guide. Grass plains, fynbos hills and mountains spread out before you.
Sleeps six adults, or four adults and four children.
Black Rhino House
A private residence with its own chef and field guide. Poised at the top of the valley, framed by the Outeniqua mountains.
Sleeps six.
Psamma House
A calm, stylish private residence with its own chef and field guide. A private pool, and the mountains beyond.
Sleeps six.
Ikhara House
A modern private residence with its own chef and field guide. Clean lines, and the Langeberg and Outeniqua mountains all around you.
Sleeps six.
Staying a week or more, or bringing a group, is arranged directly with the lodge.
The Reserve
For twenty years, we have been returning this land to the wild.
For a hundred years this land was farmed. Since January 2006 it has been coming back: to fynbos, and to the animals that belong on it. Today the Big Five move freely across the reserve. A conservation fee is charged separately for each stay and goes to the Gondwana Conservation Foundation, so every stay contributes to our conservation legacy.
Your First Safari at Gondwana
From the moment you arrive to your first game drive. Here is everything you need to know.
Plan your stay
Tell us when and who. We'll take it from there.