Accommodation: Self-catering and catered safari lodges
Activities: Game drives, guided walks, canoeing, tiger fishing, birding
Highlights: Rhino tracking and spa treatments
Pongola Game Reserve is a birding hotspot and home to 4 of the Big Five (excluding lion) and many typical plains game species. This exclusive KwaZulu-Natal game reserve in South Africa offers scenic bushveld, mountains and a lake with a diversity of leisure activities.
The broad and perennial Pongola River meanders through the centre of the reserve before entering the man-made 13 276 hectares Pongolapoort Dam also known as Lake Jozini. It provides a unique leisure environment and South African bushveld destination. Guests can choose from fully-catered or self-catering lodges in different settings within Pongola Game Reserve.
Guests at this KwaZulu-Natal game reserve in South Africa can spend time exploring the area during river cruises with the Fish Eagle Safari Boat. Other options include the unique experience of Rhino tracking on foot.
On game-drives, guests at Pongola can go in search of African wildlife like Leopard, Rhino, Elephant, Buffalo, Hippo and Crocodile on the banks of the perennial river.