Day 1
You will depart at 06:00 from anywhere around Johannesburg to Kruger in an air-conditioned bus. You will pass through some Mpumalanga farmlands and coal mining towns en route to Hoedspruit town where you will have lunch before proceeding on to the Manyeleti Game Reserve. Once you arrive at Manyeleti, your guide will take you on a three-hour drive in an open vehicle around the game reserve. You will expect to see some common animals like the impala, kudu, waterbuck, warthog, wildebeest, as well as the Big Five. Dinner will be served around the fire at the Boma then overnight in the chalet.
Day 2
An early drive with packed breakfast, your guide will take you on a full day Kruger Park safari. On the drive, you may stop at waterholes and some view picnic spots for a chance to see some animals coming to drink water. Breakfast will be served at one of the picnic sites in the bush. After a 30-minute break, you will drive looking for more game herding towards the lunch at a restaurant which is inside the park. Your guide will take another route looking for more game herding back to the main gate before it closes then back to the lodge. Dinner will be served and overnight in chalets.
Day 3
Your guide will take you on an early four-hour game drive around the game reserve. Breakfast will be served at the lodge. A siesta after breakfast is also a popular option. At 14:00, you will be taken to a local village or orphanage home where you are going to learn about the history of the people in that area and their way of leaving. Participate in the orphanage home or in the fields, especially during the summer season when they grow different types of crops. You have the chance to sample their traditional foods. Your guide will take you back to the lodge. Dinner will be served and overnight in chalets.
Or Moholoholo Rehabilitation Center. This is a home for many of South Africa’s abandoned, injured, and poisoned wildlife, and a highly regarded contributor to wildlife education in the country. It is also a home to bird species as well, and some of the rescued lions from an Egyptian circus. The center has a long-standing and successful serval breeding project which is a success story of its own, having bred and released over 160 animals back into areas where they have previously become extinct. You will find animals like the rhinos and mostly cats, lion, cheetah, leopard and wild dogs.
Day 4
Rusks and coffee before you depart on an early four-hour game drive around the Manyeleti Game Reserve. Brunch will be served back at the lodge. After lunch, you will depart on a bushwalk.
Day 5
It will be another full day of game viewing in Kruger National Park.
Day 6
You will depart very early from the lodge with packed breakfast going through the whole panorama route on your way back to Johannesburg. You will be dropped off at your place of accommodation or at the airport in time for your flight.
