Mashatu January 2020, Subject to availability

11 January 2020: On your arrival at Limpopo Valley Airfield / Pont Drift Border Post, you will be met by a representative from Mashatu Lodge, who will assist you to your transfer vehicle. 

We will spend the next eight nights at Mashatu Main camp. The main camp has 14 rooms. Here we will have our own guides and vehicles for the duration of our stay. We will have 3 guests per vehicle.

On this safari we will focus on game drives and we will not visit the photographic hides as they are closed during January as they tend to not be visited by the animals as often.  As Mashatu offers a range of activities, you might want to join them should you wish to break away from our schedule (based on availability), but they will not form part of a guided photographic activity by Grant or Helena. 

Mashatu Game Reserve is a place rich in natural and cultural history and offers some of the most exciting game viewing in Africa. It is a place of exceptional beauty where one can explore the rugged, unspoiled African landscapes in open 4-wheel drive vehicles driven by the expert camp guides and experienced trackers.

 Mashatu is home to large herds of elephant,  giraffe, eland and wildebeest.  There are leopard, prides of lion, packs of spotted hyaena and sometimes cheetah.  Along the river courses, huge Mashatu trees dominate the ribbon of forest and provide shade and shelter for wildlife.

Mashatu provides a refuge for the largest single population of elephant on privately-owned land.  Known as the relic herds of Shashe, these elephants are the last living testament to the great herds that once populated the meandering Limpopo valley. Today, the population on Mashatu Game Reserve alone, is estimated to number in excess of 700.