Southern Heaven

Southern Heaven is a wonderful luxury safari and beach holiday visiting the world famous Kruger National Park and an up and coming but still pristine beach resort in the Vilanculos area of Mozambique.

Your holiday begins in the Kruger National Park, one of the largest and most diverse national parks in Africa.

Your luxury game lodge is located within its own private concession inside the National Park providing a level of exclusivity not usually found in the Kruger Park. Being in a private concession area there is the opportunity to enjoy guided walks, night drives and following tracks offroad in search of more elusive animals.

The concession is in the south of the park in one of the most productive areas for game viewing  with sightings of the big five being reassuringly common and the bonus of sighting some rarer species such as wild dog a possibility. Your game drives will take place both inside the private concession and also inside the public areas of the park.

After your safari you will fly to Vilanculos in Mozambique from where you will have a short drive to your hotel on the mainland. 

Exotic, sun-baked beaches stretch on forever, the pristine landscape a superb horse-riding destination – “swimming” the horses is a memorable experience for riders of all levels. Turquoise oceans mirror heated azure skies and flow over a rugged shoreline. A gentle, eco-canoe trail through crystal waters and water lilies invites an appreciation of the aquatic animals and bird life which animate the region. Inland leads through coconut plantations and typical rural fishing villages, where signs of development are starting to make themselves visible.

The waters around the Bazaruto Archipelago World Heritage Site and National Park are an ecological paradise. The scuba diving rivals some of the best in the world. With sites at a depth of 12 to 30 m and visibility up to 40 m you will find reefs teeming with life, including dolphin, hump back whales, whale sharks, sharks, manta and spotted eagle rays, game fish, green turtles and giant lobster. The endangered dugong,  a close relation of the Manatee, of which only a very small number still exist, swim in the shallow crystal clear waters that are also home to starfish, soft and hard corals, anemones, seahorses and an array of beautiful tropical fish.

The Bazaruto area is also a top destination for big game fishing which is practised on a “catch and Release” basis

Price Fr £4042 per person sharing on a Johannesburg to Johannesburg basis