Manyeleti Private Game Reserve shares unfenced borders with Kruger National Park, Timbavati Game Reserve and Sabi Sands Game Reserve, forming part of a vast wilderness where wildlife roams freely. The reserve is managed by the Mnisi people, who have lived on this land for generations. In Shangaan, the language most widely spoken in the region, Manyeleti means ‘Place of Stars’, a fitting name for an area renowned for its clear night skies and brilliant stargazing. Dry for much of the year, the reserve offers exceptional wildlife viewing as animals gather around waterholes. Aside from its outstanding safari experiences, Manyeleti also provides visitors with insight into the rich culture and traditions of the Mnisi community.
The largest game reserve in South Africa, the Kruger National Park is larger than Israel. Nearly 2 million hectares of land that stretch for 352 kilometres (20 000 square kilometres) from north to south along the Mozambique border, is given over to an almost indescribable wildlife experience. Certainly it ranks with the best in Africa and is the flagship of the country’s national parks - rated as the ultimate safari experience.
The Kruger National Park lies across the provinces of Mpumalanga and Limpopo in the north of South Africa, just south of Zimbabwe and west of Mozambique. It now forms part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park - a peace park that links Kruger National Park with game parks in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and fences are already coming down to allow game to freely roam in much the way it would have in the time before man’s intervention. When complete, the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park will extend across 35 000 square kilometres, 58% of it South African, 24% Mozambican and 18% Zimbabwean territory.
This is the land of baobabs, fever trees, knob thorns, marula and mopane trees underneath which lurk the Big Five, the Little Five (buffalo weaver, elephant shrew, leopard tortoise, ant lion and rhino beetle), the birding Big Six (ground hornbill, kori bustard, lappet-faced vulture, martial eagle, pel’s fishing owl and saddle-bill stork) and more species of mammals than any other African Game Reserve.
