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Gondwana Game Reserve, a Big 5 safari on the Garden Route
Where you are
Four hours from Cape Town.
Gondwana Game Reserve sits on 11 000 hectares of fynbos and grassland between the Langeberg and the Outeniqua, a few minutes off the N2 near Mossel Bay. The reserve holds free-roaming Big 5 game and is malaria free. You drive here on a tar road and arrive in time for the afternoon drive.
A day here
The vehicle leaves at first light. The rest of the day arranges itself.
You go out before breakfast with your guide and come back when the light is high. The middle of the day is yours. The pool, a walk in the Protected Area, lunch when you want it. The afternoon drive leaves as the heat drops and ends with a drink somewhere with a view. Dinner is at the lodge, at your own table or the long one.
Stay
Two lodges, four private residences. Choose by who is coming.
Staying a week or more, or bringing a group, is arranged directly with the lodge.
The reserve
Restored, not fenced off.
This land was farmed for a century. Since January 2006 it has been returned to fynbos and to the animals that belong on it. Free-roaming Big 5 game move across the whole reserve. A conservation fee is charged separately for each stay and goes to a registered conservation fund.
Your first safari
Plan your stay
Tell us when and who. We'll take it from there.