5 Day Luxury Kruger Lodge Safari

Fly from Johannesburg to Hoedspruit in the heart of South Africa’s iconic Kruger safari region on this Luxury Kruger Lodge Safari. Experience five days of prime wildlife viewing in three top-class African game reserves.

Explore Kruger National Park, Balule Reserve (in Greater Kruger Park), and Motlala Wildlife Reserve. Embark on thrilling sunset-to-night and morning game drives in these diverse African game reserves in open 4×4 safari vehicles designed for off-road tracking, the best views, and optimal photo opportunities.

Experience two safari camps located in private game reserves near Kruger Park. Indulge in luxurious safari lodge accommodation with excellent facilities. This short Big 5 Kruger Safari is sure to include many thrilling African wildlife experiences in South Africa’s leading safari region.

About Balule in Greater Kruger National Park

There are no fences separating this 35000-hectare private game reserve from Kruger National Park allowing numerous wild animals to roam freely between these wilderness areas. The Olifant’s River flows through the Balule game reserve attracting a variety of birds and animals year-round.

Balule is home to the iconic Big 5 of Africa with buffalo, lion, and elephant being sighted the most regularly sometimes even from the lodge property! Other wildlife commonly sighted in Balule include giraffe, wildebeest, hyena, zebra, hippo, warthog, mongoose, vervet monkey, and various antelope species, such as waterbuck, steenbok, impala, and kudu.

Nocturnal animals such as civets, bush babies, bats, hares, genets, wild cats, and porcupines can be spotted on night game drives. Some of the more elusive wild animals found in this part of Greater Kruger include cheetah, African wild dog, bat-eared fox, and badger, as well as caracal and serval cat and a variety of antelope species, such as suni, roan, and sable antelope.

The Greater Kruger Park area consists of various private game parks, such as Balule, that share unfenced boundaries with Kruger National Park proper. Staying in a private game lodge allows you to escape the main throng of tourists, as the Balule game reserve is not open to the general public. Balule is closed to the general public and we drive mostly on dirt roads encountering fewer safari vehicles – a more remote game viewing experience in untamed Africa!

On this exclusive safari adventure, you get a more secluded bush experience that brings you closer to nature. Another advantage of game viewing in the Balule private reserve is that your qualified guides communicate with each other via two-way radio, increasing the number of wildlife sightings on your drives.

Yet another perk of staying at a private lodge is that off-road driving is permitted in this exclusive game reserve area of the Greater Kruger Park, improving your chances of spotting wildlife in the bush.

About Kruger National Park

The world-renowned Kruger National Park is one of Africa’s best safari destinations and South Africa’s premier game reserve. Covering nearly 2 million hectares of untamed African bush the variety of habitats in Kruger Park are home to a breath-taking diversity of plants and animals.

Kruger is South Africa’s top travel destination offering superb game viewing, including massive populations of Africa’s iconic Big Five – elephant, rhino, leopard, lion, and buffalo.

This vast wilderness area is inhabited by a staggering 147 mammal species and 517 bird species, as well as a variety of other wild animals and 336 tree species. South Africa’s flagship national park, Kruger Park is considered a world leader in advanced environmental policies and wildlife management practices.