Enjoy a full day of self-drive game viewing today in Ithala Game Reserve - a place of great seasonal contrast with grasslands alive with warthogs in spring, abundant masses of red "Pride of De Kaap" flowers in summer and hundreds of aloes flowering in the winter.
Ithala’s big game species include white and black rhino, elephant, buffalo, leopard and giraffe. There are are no lion at Ithala, but plains game is plentiful - including zebra, blue wildebeest, impala, oribi, red hartebeest, eland, kudu, waterbuck, tsessebe, common and mountain reedbuck, steenbok and grey duiker. Also spotted and brown hyena, aardvark, aardwolf, honey badger, pangolin, serval and porcupine.
With its many perennial streams and rivers, and the frequent occurrence of cliffs and rock faces, Ithala is also the ideal haven for a large variety of birds including black eagles, martial eagles, crowned eagles, lappet faced and whitebacked vultures, ostriches, blue crane and secretary birds stalking across the veld.