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Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Going Wild

Well Found Welgevonden

After a tir­ing jour­ney, admit­tedly just a 3 and a half hour drive from OR Tambo International Airport, we had finally arrived at the West Gate of the Welgevonden Private Game Reserve (near Vaalwater in the Limpopo Province) for a long-awaited game holiday.

We hap­pily aban­doned our rental car (no private vehicles are allowed in the reserve) and scampered into the back of the open 4x4 safari vehicle, while our game ranger col­lec­ted and stowed our lug­gage. Then we were off on our +/- 30 minute “trans­fer” to the lodge. Within minutes, Welgevonden lived up to the mean­ing of its name (well found), as we sloughed off the tired­ness of the trip and found that sense of peace and the true relax­a­tion that can only be exper­i­enced in the bush, with an almost imme­di­ate sight­ing of a Zebra mother and foal ... Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Going Wild

Game for a Walk?

Those of you that have invest­ig­ated a visit to a game reserve, may have come across Game Walks as an optional activ­ity which can be enjoyed when stay­ing at one of South Africa’s lux­uri­ous game lodges. What exactly do they mean by this? Well, you get taken deep into the bush and track wild­life by foot (for­tu­nately under the expert guid­ance of an armed game ranger) ... Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues