Adventure: White Water Rafting + Kruger National Park
KRS7M

You will be met at Mpumalanga Airport and transferred to your hotel on the scenic Panorama Route.

 

Check into your hotel in this beautiful region.

Transfer to the Sabie River Forest for an exciting 3-hour Tree Top Canopy tour, where you will glide in a harness along steel cables attached to platforms over 100 ft above the forest floor, with spectacular views of the flora, fauna and bird life around you.

 

Afternoon at leisure to relax on the Panorama Route.

 

Today you will be collected from your hotel for the adrenalin thrill of a half day of White Water Rafting down the beautiful Sabie River.

 

You’ll have great fun manoeuvring your raft through the nooks and crannies, as you enjoy the beauty of the Blyde River Canyon region. Afterwards relax at your lodge on the beautiful Drakensberg Panorama Route.

 

Today enjoy a full day tour, starting with a visit to the Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, where you will have the unique opportunity of viewing wild lion, leopard, cheetah, eagles and vultures at close quarters. Animals found injured, poisoned or orphaned are given a second chance and released back into the wild.

 

In the afternoon we continue to the Endangered Species Centre near Hoedspruit, famous for its work in breeding cheetah, wild dogs and other endangered species.

 

Today transfer 2-hours to your game lodge in the world famous Kruger National Park.

 

After checking in to your lodge, enjoy your first thrilling game drive in an open-top vehicle accompanied by a ranger. Game viewing opportunities should present themselves almost immediately and hopefully you will see several species of antelope, zebra, wildebeest and maybe even giraffe today - as well as several of the Big Five - before dining under the stars in the atmosphere that only the African bushveld can provide!

Rise at dawn to take advantage of the best game viewing conditions of the day, as you enjoy a thrilling open-top game viewing drive into the world famous Kruger National Park.

 

Explore the famous Kruger National Park, a vast 2-million hectare game sanctuary the size of Wales which offer magnificent game viewing opportunities and the highest concentration of lion in the whole of Africa. Hope to see several of the Big Five today - Lion, Elephant, Buffalo, Leopard and Rhino - as well as many other species before returning to your lodge for breakfast.

 

The rest of the morning is free to relax by the swimming pool or enjoy bird watching at the lodge, before setting out again in the late afternoon for another game drive. With nearly 150 different species of mammals and over 100 species of reptiles in the Kruger National Park, you can hope to see cheetah, giraffe, hippo, kudu, crocodiles, sable antelope, waterbuck, warthogs, baboons, wild dogs and many other interesting animals. With over 500 different bird species including eagles, kingfishers, vultures and storks, outstanding bird watching is also guaranteed.

  

After a beautiful African sunset, enjoy the balmy evening and pristine stars of the Milky Way as you have never seen them before – as well as the spectacular Southern Cross.

  

Time permitting enjoy some final early morning game viewing, before your 2.5-hour transfer to Mpumulanga Airport for your flight home.