Safari
Departures every Monday – Wednesday and Saturday for groups of 2 and more traveling together.
This action-packed all onclusive Kruger Park Safari package includes transfers, a night safari on a private concession inside the Kruger, a full day and morning open vehicle safari, quality accommodation with tasty traditional meals at a leading lodge kitted out with everything you need for a comfortable stay such as fast Wi-Fi, comfortable air-conditioning, and spacious rooms.
90% of Kurt Safari’s clients manage to see the Big 5 on a 3 day safari.
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| Early Morning: | Transfer from Johannesburg to Hazyview. |
| Midday: | Check into your accommodation and have a refreshing light lunch at the Lodge. Enjoy a lazy afternoon swimming or resting before a thrilling night safari. |
| Late Afternoon: | Depart for a private concession area within the Kruger Park and enjoy your first night safari, complete with relaxing sundown drinks. |
| Evening: | Return to the lodge for a delicious dinner. |
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| Early Morning: | Help yourself to coffee or tea before departing for a full day Kruger Park safari. Guides will stop for a breakfast at one of Kruger’s rest camps at around 9 am, before continuing on safari. |
| Midday: | The Guide will stop for lunch at a Kruger rest camp. While here you can enjoy some curio shopping and lunch, before continuing on your safari. |
| Late Afternoon: | Arrive back at the lodge and enjoy a swim, a walk, or a lazy afternoon in your air-conditioned room. You can also enjoy a cocktail by the pool. |
| Evening: | Dinner starts at 18:30 pm. Be sure to have a glass of South African wine you’re your Traditional African meal. |
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| Early Morning: | Have a cup of coffee or tea before departing early for a morning safari. Guides will stop for breakfast at one of Kruger’s rest camps at around 9 am, before continuing on safari towards the lodge. |
| Midday: | The Guide will return to the lodge at around 11.30 am. From here guests meet the transfer vehicle for their journey back to Johannesburg. |
| Late Afternoon: | Drop off at OR Tambo International Airport or at a lodge in close proximity to the airport. |
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Kurt Safari uses two 4-star lodges in Hazyview, Umbhaba Eco Lodge and if fully booked then Sanbonani Resort Hotel, both are positioned within a convenient 15-minute drive to Phabeni Gate, the main gate of the Kruger National Park. Both lodges offer beautiful accommodation in tranquil gardens, with all the expected amenities. At Kurt Safari, our commitment to ensuring top-notch service extends across all our tours and safaris, promising our clients an experience of unparalleled high quality. Each room offers en-suite facilities, WI-FI, air-conditioning, and traditional meals, guaranteeing a secure and comfortable 4-star experience for our valued clients.
Departure & Return Location
06:30 am – 06:45 am – Clients will be collected from lodges within a 5 km radius of OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg.
06:45 am – 07:00 am – Clients will be collected from the Shuttle and Bus Terminal at the OR Tambo International Airport. We depart at 7:15 am. Please see the Map below to see our pickup points.
Transport to the Airport is available via the modern Gautrain or Uber.
Clients can also fly directly into Skukuza Airport within the Kruger, or to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport where they will be collected by a Kurt Safari Guide at no additional cost.
(Lunch & Dinner included)
Guests will be collected from various lodges and hotels within a 5 km radius of the OR Tambo International Airport between 6:30 am and 6:45 am, and then from the OR Tambo International Airport shuttle and bus terminal between 6:45 and 7:00 am. We depart for the Kruger at 7:15 am.
Clients can alternatively fly directly into Skukuza in the Kruger National Park, or they can fly to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport and be collected by a Kurt Safari Guide at no additional cost.
Please confirm your pickup details the day before the tour, by sending an email to online@kurtsafari.com.
Please note that these are shared departures. We will travel directly to the lodge in Hazyview and arrive between 11:30 am – 12:00 pm. Guests will have time to relax, unpack and enjoy a light lunch, cool off in the pool or walk around the beautiful lodge walking trails. We depart at around 15:45 pm for a Sunset / Night safari in a concession area of the Kruger National Park before returning to the lodge at approximately 20:00 pm for a delicious dinner and a good night’s rest.
(Breakfast & Dinner included- lunch at own account)
Mpumalanga means the place of the rising sun and is the first province in South Africa to see the sun rise and all of the best Kruger National Park safaris start before sun is up. This is the ideal time of day to enter the park, as it is still cool outside. Not knowing what to expect, after a short drive to the park, we enter the gates and your guide will take you to some of the best areas of the park to find the wildlife including the Big 5 and plains game. This is also the finest time of the day to see predators.
The lodge will arrange breakfast packs and your guide will stop about 3 hours into the safari for a breakfast and bathroom break, and chance to get coffee. We then continue the safari. The beautiful Kruger Park offers a variety of eco zones and area is home to different types of wildlife. We visit rivers and watering holes as well as Plains and Bushveld regions, ensuring that our guests get to see a wide range of animals.
After more time exploring, we stop for lunch at a rest camp. This meal will be on your own account. While in the rest camp you will have time to do some curio shopping or enjoy a cold beer! The guide will then continue with the safari, taking the roads that will lead back to your lodge. We arrive at around 15:30 pm – 16:00 pm, giving you enough time to relax, swim and have a great dinner.
(Breakfast included)
During this morning Kruger Park safari we again depart the lodge before sunrise. Your guide will focus on finding animals we couldn’t find on the first 2 safaris. We always hope to see lion and leopard as they are most active in the early mornings.
We will stop during the course of the morning to have a packed breakfast. After a short breakfast and coffee stop, we will continue with the safari returning to the lodge at around 12 pm.
Here you can say goodbye to your guide and freshen up before the journey back to Johannesburg. Clients are collected by the shuttle at around 12:30 pm, and we return to Johannesburg OR Tambo shuttle terminal and lodges within a 5 km radius, arriving between 17:00 – 18:00 pm.
NB: Clients flying out of OR Tambo International on the last day should please not book their flight any earlier than 20:00 pm for Domestic flights and 21:00 pm for International flights.
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Kurt Safari uses two 4-star lodges in Hazyview, Umbhaba Eco Lodge and if fully booked then Sanbonani Resort Hotel, both are positioned within a convenient 15-minute drive to Phabeni Gate, the main gate of the Kruger National Park. Both lodges offer beautiful accommodation in tranquil gardens, with all the expected amenities. At Kurt Safari, our commitment to ensuring top-notch service extends across all our tours and safaris, promising our clients an experience of unparalleled high quality. Each room offers en-suite facilities, WI-FI, air-conditioning, and traditional meals, guaranteeing a secure and comfortable 4-star experience for our valued clients.
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Many people don’t see the point in driving through a bushveld looking for animals, but there’s so much more to it. wild animals are seen as a nuisance in most inhabited areas, but if you’ve never seen the magic of animals in their natural habitat, untouched by humans, you’ve been missing out! looking at zoo animals in their enclosures might be considered nice, because you’re almost 100% guaranteed that you’ll see them, but that’s not how they behave in the wild. nothing beats the thrill of finding a pride of lions laying in the shade, or walking across the road right in front of you, and once you’ve felt the reverberations of an elephant’s trumpet through your bones, you’ll be hooked! our clients often come back for more, because you never know what you’re going to see next…
Every single one of our guides have a passion for the kruger park. we love waking up every morning and meeting new people, never mind sharing our love for the bushveld with them. we are highly experienced and have heaps of knowledge about the fauna and flora in the knp at our clients’ disposal. one of our best characteristics must be that we focus on small groups to give each safari trip the best chance of seeing the best sights that the knp has to offer. our safaris depart any day of the week to suit our clients’ busy schedules and will accommodate all your needs as best we can. visit our website for more information on our company…
We operate from hazyview and will collect you from any of the lovely holiday resorts, lodges or nearby locations. our vehicles depart at different times in different seasons… for full day or morning safaris, we leave at 5am in october to march and at 5h30am in april to september. for afternoon safaris, we leave at 13h00 pm in the afternoons. most of the wildlife in the park prefers hiding in the shade during the hot afternoons, so we highly recommend joining us for the earlier safaris to get the most out of your trip.
Anything to do with the word “game” whilst on a safari—like game drives or looking for game—all refers to wild animals in safari context. you might also encounter “game” on the menus of some traditional restaurants, which basically means that you’re ordering wild buck meat, or even warthog.
Even though the knp falls in a malaria area, most foreigners are pleasantly surprised at how few mosquitoes are actually encountered whilst on a safari. these mosquitoes breed in water, and even in the middle of our rainy season in december, we don’t consider them to be a relentless menace. despite what you might have been told, mosquitoes are not a plague in the knp and although we are always cautious about malaria, the locals in and around the knp do not run around with repellents all the time.
If you’re really worried and consider yourself or anyone joining you on the safari to be particularly susceptible to this rare disease, be sure to consult your gp. there are many places in the park where you can buy mosquito repellent containing deet—this is the most vital ingredient in insect repellents as it has been proven to repel the malaria-carrying mosquitoes effectively.
Even though the kruger park is basically a giant protected bushveld and sparsely populated, there are many little “towns” and camps where you can find anything from grocery stores, souvenir stores, petrol stations and much more.
As mentioned before, there are many places in the knp where we can stop over for lunch where you can buy take-away food or choose to have a meal at the various restaurants. we usually have lunch at skukuza, but this is not set in stone.
Two words: comfortable and practical. seeing as you’re going to be driving around for the majority of the time on your safari experience, it is advisable that you wear clothes that are not too tight and not too hot. winters can be cold, so check the forecast beforehand, but summers are the opposite—just take a jacket with you in case it gets chilly, and stay away from high heels, ladies! we might stop on top of rocky mountains to give you an in-person taste of the spectacular views in the knp. trust me, it’s spine-chilling raw beauty.
You’ll be surprised at the true meaning of this term—it actually refers to the five most feared animals in the bush. they are extremely dangerous to hunt on foot and also rather rare. the big 5 consists of african lions, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and rhino. it really is a tourist attraction and many safari companies utilise this term as a major marketing strategy.
We cannot guarantee that there will be sightings of all five animals in the big 5, but we can guarantee that we will do our best to find them. elephants are massive, this is true, but in the lush untouched bushveld of the kruger, if they don’t want to be seen, they can easily disappear behind the trees mere meters away from you. they tend not to be too shy, unlike leopards. rhinos are extremely scarce, but our guides know where their usual grazing spots are, and a pride of lions would attract so much attention that our radios would notify us if there’s a sighting nearby. nevertheless, you are guaranteed to see a very diverse variety of animals in the kruger national park.
Children under 8 are more than welcome on privately hired open vehicles, yes. this is purely out of consideration for our other clients who do not have children and might not have the patience for their unique outlook and excitement about each wild animal we encounter. all children under 12 have discounted safari rates, as well as half-price conservation fees to enter the kruger national park.
You can visit our website to view the current prices for our safaris, make a booking online to receive an invoice, and then make an online payment before the safari takes place, or contact kurt safari for any enquiries you might have regarding other payment options.
I cannot even begin to list the most amazing experiences we’ve had whilst on safaris in the knp! there are too many to count, each encounter very different but equally remarkable. if you consider the size of the knp and how many animals call it their home, you can only begin to imagine the things we’ve seen—from a ride of lionesses to the birth of a brand-new baby giraffe. each time our jaws drop at the splendour of mother nature. you will have to come and see it for yourself.
Placing yourself in the middle of a nature reserve where there are numerous predators and dangerous animals could sound pretty intimidating, but rest assured, kurt safari guides all have in-depth knowledge about the behaviour of these animals and would never put your life in danger. elephants can be aggressive if they have young ones to protect and even lone elephant bulls have charged at cars that don’t know when to back away, but obtaining injuries from wild animals whilst on a safari is very rare and you need not be worried—just enjoy the ride.
