3 Day Safari

welgevonden game reserve

Highlights

What you can expect from your safari:

3 nights accommodation

Wildlife game viewing

Professional registered guides

Transfers to and from the reserve

Overview

With over 37 000 hectares of diverse landscapes to explore, Welgevonden Private Game Reserve is home to over 50 different mammals including the Big Five, and our 3-Day Welgevonden Safari is just the introduction you need!

Just an easy under three-hour drive or 45-minute flight from Johannesburg, Welgevonden is the perfect weekend getaway to unwind, lounge in luxury, experience the African bush and all it has to offer. It has one of the largest populations of white rhino of any of Africa’s private reserves as well as kudu, giraffe, zebra, warthog, cheetah, brown hyena, honey badger, close to 300 bird species and a whole lot more.

A Welgevonden safari grants you the opportunity to put your feet up without having to worry about transfers, catering and accommodation. Your only duty on your safari is to keep your eyes sharp for wildlife.

Accommodation

Your stay will be in luxury en-suite rooms in one of our luxury lodges on offer. Most lodges are secluded, host a maximum of 10 guests and have been built with the strictest aesthetic attention to the surrounding environment.

All Welgevonden’s lodges offer a range of game drives, activities, fabulous vistas and first-rate facilities and service including some of the best food and wine that South Africa has to offer.

Itinerary

Day 1 - Welgevonden Game Reserve

Once you have arrived at OR Tambo International Airport, you will be met by a representative who will transport you to your lodge around midday, allowing you to settle in before lunch, after which you will enjoy an afternoon game drive.

After getting up-close and personal with some of Africa’s premier wildlife, you’ll return to the lodge to enjoy a delicious dinner accompanied by your choice from the extensive drinks and wine list.

Meals: Lunch and dinner included (excluding some beverages)

It’s an early start to the day, and after a cup of coffee and something to nibble on, you’ll set off on your morning game drive around the reserve. Setting off before the sun comes up allows you the chance to spot some of Welgevonden’s nocturnal and crepuscular creatures as well as other animals as they begin their day.

After your excursion, you return to the lodge for a tasty breakfast, after which you’ll have time to relax and explore the lodge’s facilities or even book yourself in for a rewarding spa treatment.

After lunch and siesta time it will be time to depart on your afternoon game drive. This drive often extends into the early hours of the evening – depending on the sights and situations you stumble across on your adventure! After this, you will return to the lodge for dinner and an evening around the fire.

Meals: Full board included (excluding some beverages)

On your last day you will rise early to go off on your final game drive to see Welgevonden Game Reserve before the sun rises to find the species that have eluded you so far and to grab those final photographic opportunities. After the drive you will return to the lodge to gather your things before your transfer heads back to the airport for your further travel arrangements.

Meals: Breakfast included (excluding some beverages)

Rates

Please enquire for current rates

Includes Excludes
  • Accommodation in luxury en-suite rooms
  • All meals
  • Game drives in an open safari-vehicles
  • All domestic transfers
  • Wi-Fi in communal areas
  • Bottled mineral water for transfers
  • Snacks for game drives
  • Meals not specified in itinerary
  • All beverages
  • All entry fees and daily conservation levies
  • Optional extra activities such as Spa treatments
  • Items of a personal nature
  • Gratuities

Notes

It is important to note that this is not a private safari and more than likely there will be other guests joining you on the game drive vehicles, air-conditioned mini bus transfer vehicles as well as during mealtimes. Guests arriving at OR Tambo Airport are advised to land by no later than 08h00 (domestic) or 07h00 (international) in order to have enough time to make the scheduled transfers within the game reserve to the respective lodge.

Each lodge has different policies for children in relation to accommodation and game drives, and are decided at the sole discretion of the manager or guide. Where possible, a kids’ safari will be arranged between normal safari times, and baby-sitting can be arranged at the lodge at an additional charge.

Guests flying out of OR Tambo Airport on the last day are reminded to not book any flights earlier than 17h00 (domestic) or 18h00 (international) in order to have enough time to get to the airport. We recommend that you rather stay over in Johannesburg if possible. Since we cannot guarantee the arrival time in Johannesburg on the last day – we will not be held responsible for re-imbursements of flight tickets should we arrive later than expected. Private transfers for guests with early flights can be arranged in advance at an extra charge.

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