Luxury Hotel · South Africa
Gondwana Game Reserve
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At a glance
Gondwana Game Reserve is an 11,000-hectare private reserve. It’s a great place to pursue the Big 5 and discover the magic of the African bush. You’ll be staying in luxury accommodation in a place of great natural beauty.
A full itinerary can be plotted out for you. Expect early starts as you set out on game drives in an open rover. Full-board and half-board packages are available.
Located in the heart of the Garden Route, this is a truly stunning setting. Cape Town is just a four-hour drive away. The reserve is covered in Fynbos vegetation that illuminates the surrounding valleys.
The luxury suites are nestled within the verdant surroundings and each offers a different perspective of the area’s stunning wildlife. Gondwana is one of the finest game reserves in South Africa and you can expect the best of the best when it comes to enjoying magnificent nature without ever compromising on an elevated level of luxurious comfort.
Highlights
- Haute Grandeur Hotel Award Winner
- One of the top African game reserves
- Luxury accommodation
- All-inclusive options available
- Four-hour drive to Cape Town
Accommodation
Kwena Lodge Suites
A modern twist on traditional Khoi-San dwellings, these luxurious lodge suites come with infinity pools, a separate dining room and an open plan lounge and bar. You’ll have a traditional boma outside (a firepit and sitting area). There are 14 open plan suites at Kwena Lodge. Each one is around 70m2.
Bush Villas And Fynbos Villas
The Bush Villas And Fynbos Villas are like private homes. They’re ideal for families or larger groups. The layout is open plan and there are three or four bedrooms. All of the villas are very private and come with stunning and outdoor decks.
Ulubisi House
Stay in a luxurious African villa and have your own chef, butler and field guide. The villa is located within a part of the reserve that’s full of game. There are three luxury suites overlooking the rolling mountains. All meals and drinks are included. This is the most glamorous way to experience the African bush.
Further information
Dining Options
African boma breakfasts are served each morning. You’ll have veranda lunch platters, boma barbecues, picnics and outdoor sundowner dining options. The food is Pan African Cuisine and the wine menu is geared toward local wines from the Cape area.
Wellness
The bush spa is set apart from the main lodge, a quiet pair of treatment rooms working through a deluxe menu of massages, facials, and body treatments with Africology products. Back at Kwena Lodge, an infinity pool runs along the deck with private loungers and a poolside bar, looking over the fynbos and the Outeniqua Mountains. It is the easiest place to slow down between morning and afternoon drives.
Location
Gondwana spreads across 11,000 hectares on the Garden Route, near Mossel Bay in the Western Cape. It is the only malaria-free fynbos reserve with free-roaming Big Five, set within the Cape Floral Kingdom, a UNESCO World Heritage site, with the Outeniqua and Langeberg Mountains behind. George Airport is about an hour away and Cape Town is around four hours by road, which makes the reserve an easy addition to a Garden Route trip.
South Africa
South Africa occupies the southern tip of the African continent, bordered by the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and sharing land borders with Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Eswatini. The country spans eleven official languages and an extraordinary range of landscapes, from the winelands of the Western Cape to the bushveld of Limpopo and the dramatic coastline of the Garden Route. Most itineraries begin in Cape Town, one of the world’s great cities.
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