If you have a thirst for adventure and are looking for a superb Botswana wildlife safari but still enjoy 5-star luxury accommodation, a stay in Mashatu Game Reserve is perfect for you.
Your Mashatu Safari Experience
Mashatu Game Reserve in Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana is a true wilderness with a diversity of ecosystems and a variety of interesting landscapes - the ultimate destination for an adventure safari in Botswana.
Along with its beautiful sunrises, sunsets and night skies, Mashatu Game Reserve offers superb wildlife viewing with its expansive unfenced terrain of 31000 hectares, making it possible to see predators, grazing animals as well as 350 bird species.
To see these animals in their natural habitat, you can go on daily guided morning and night game drives or take the adventure up a notch by going on a safari by foot, bicycle or horseback. There is excellent all-year-round game viewing due to the fact that the animals in Mashatu do not migrate.
Mashatu provides a luxurious stay for nature lovers. A never-ending view can be seen from this five-star camp, built on top of a cliff overlooking the grassy plains below. Made out of curved roofs looking just like the seed from mopane trees - one of the most valuable foods on Mashatu and what sustained all animals during the dry seasons.
Why We Love it and You Will Too
- Mashatu offers the best adventure safaris including walking, cycling and horse safaris
- Excellent predator and elephant viewing plus over 350 bird species
- Photographic hides let you capture spectacular wildlife photos
- Exclusivity on safari - accommodation in 8 suites and only 4 people per vehicles
- Eco safari camp using solar, heat exchanges and advanced waste technology systems
All-Inclusive Mashatu Accommodation
When you arrive you will be welcomed into your own private villa overlooking the ravine below. Every one of the 8 luxurious villas embodies a stillness, a tranquil solitude perfect for unplugging from the stresses of daily life.
The villas are eco-friendly but also have solar air-conditioning, Wi-Fi and all the luxury amenities you would expect including a heated plunge pool.
Inside showers surround you with natural beauty while outside showers will allow you to enjoy the last rays of sunlight before nightfall takes over. There is an inside toilet as well as an outdoor loo with a view of this untamed paradise.
Wide open spaces encourage guests to come together inside and out while cosy nooks make it easy for one to retreat from reality for a bit longer. It is perfect for those looking for scenic spots in which they can sit back and relax and look down on the Majale River valley below where animals frolic.
No children under 16.
All-Inclusive Mashatu Safari Activities
Mashatu offers an immersive wildlife experience with excellent game viewing and exciting adventure safaris including horseback and cycling safaris.
Learn the ways of the wildlife and experience the real Africa at Mashatu Game Reserve. Activities include mountain biking, walking safaris, horse safaris and underground photographic hides, filming safaris, day and night game drives, community village visits, rock-art site visits and exploring historical ruins.
Mashatu Game Reserve offers outstanding photographic safaris in Botswana. Mashatu has big cat sightings in short grass and open areas that make for excellent photo ops. The combination of lion sightings and the calmest African elephant population and profusion of wildlife provides a high hit-rate for wildlife photographers in Africa.
A skilled wildlife photographer will take you along special photographic hides so you can learn new tricks from an expert eye and produce higher-quality photos. Relax in the hide as animals come towards you, all the while snapping pics from different angles resulting in exceptional quality wildlife photos.
Getting There
Mashatu Game Reserve in Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana is home to Africa’s Seven Giants - elephant, lion, giraffe, baobab tree, eland, ostrich and kori bustard.
Predators that can be seen daily in Mashatu Game Reserve include Leopard Lion, Cheetah, Black-backed Jackal, Spotted Hyena, and African Wildcat.
Other wildlife that calls Mashatu Game Reserve their home include large herds of Elephants, Eland, Impala, Kudu, Waterbuck, Blue Wildebeest, Bat-eared Fox, Chacma Baboon, Vervet Monkey, Burchell’s Zebra, Bushbaby, Leopard Tortoise, Mongoose, Warthog, Hippopotamus and the Nile Crocodile.
Due to the low rainfall in Mashatu Game Reserve, there is no traditional Green Season, making it an excellent all-year-round safari destination in Botswana.
Getting to Mashatu Game Reserve is easy as there are daily 1-hour flights from Lanseria Airport in Johannesburg (with complimentary transfer between OR Tambo airport and Lanseria Airport).
Guests can also self-drive via the Pont Drift Border Post (a 6-hour drive from Johannesburg to Mashatu via Pont Drift) followed by a complimentary transfer to the lodge.
Included
- Road transfer from the airstrip to your lodge
- Villa accommodation which boasts an en-suite bathroom, air-conditioning, an outdoor shower and a private deck
- Use of a solar-heated private plunge pool
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner and snacks
- All teas, coffees and afternoon tea
- Beverages - Local and imported alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages
- Daily morning and afternoon/evening game drives in open safari vehicle accompanied by experienced guides and trackers
- Laundry
- Transfers between Mashatu Euphorbia Villas and the Limpopo Valley Airfield and/or the Pont Drift Border Post at scheduled times.
- Mashatu Game Reserve Conservation Levy
- Road transfer from your lodge to the airstrip
Not Included
- Flights
- All extras to be settled directly on departure
- Adventure activities
