Timbavati Private Reserve
Timbavati Nature Reserve shares a common unfenced border with the Kruger National Park allowing animals free range and ensuring guests to the area the opportunity to view the greatest diversity of wildlife that Africa has to offer.
Timbavati is one of a handful of nature reserves on the western boundary of the Kruger Park that are now an integral part of the Kruger Park system. Collectively termed the Association of Private Nature Reserves, these wildlife-rich lands adjoin and are managed in cooperation with the Kruger National Park, forming a unique combination of public and private lands called "The Greater Kruger Park".
The new conservation entity, created in the early 1990's, contains no internal fencing (apart from that which is used to enclose a few isolated camps, and thus "exclose" dangerous game animals). This opened up a vast stretch of wild land to the free movement of wildlife throughout what is now effectively a single conservation area. This situation is good for both wildlife and tourists: wildlife have access to more resources for meeting their permanent, seasonal, and episodic needs; and tourists are offered a wider range of eco-tourism facilities.
Accommodation is offered in colonial style game lodges, traditional thatched bush lodges, and luxury tented safari camps providing a range of small authentic bush camps to suit your dream safari holiday.
Timbavati boasts 40 species of mammal including the Big Five,Leopard, Elephant, Buffalo,Rhino and lion and is particularly famous for its white lions, 360 species of bird make the Timbavati a bird lover’s paradise. On night drives, the smaller nocturnal mammals such as porcupine, serval, genet and civet can be seen among others.