Hluhluwe Accommodation Rates & Bookings
Is there a good chance of seeing the big5? Where are the animals In the NORTH OR SOUTH or the park?
Well, For example, staying in the North, Hluhluwe, you may encounter Rhino, Buffalo, and Elephants in Summer. During Winter they migrate South towards the Umfolozi River, this however also means that the cats may be a bit harder to find. The bush is denser...
But because this is such a high demand game park, don't wait too long to get your bookings, a few months ahead is best. YOU CAN CHECK THAT HERE ..
Hluhluwe Accommodation at Hilltop Camp
Hilltop Camp offers a wide variety of accommodation options like 2 and 4-bed chalets self-cater and none. & for more of a budget, there are rondavels, small basic African huts, they are a great value.
Also, private Luxury Lodges that sleep 8 to 9 max they are managed by Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife. There is a pool at Hilltop Camp with a great restaurant and bar.
The lodges are on average smaller and more rustic than say the Kruger park & private game parks but have a more basic bush feeling like in the early 19 hundreds on safari. So for the more adventure-loving travelers or photographers, this is a better option than Kruger We think...
Some of the Luxury lodges offer private guilds find out more for bush walks and all have cooked and are serviced daily. You can take night drives, in the parks 4x4 safaris vehicles and morning these are booked at check-in at reception. The walks are a must to get the real bush feeling of South Africa at the Hluhluwe game reserve...
Hluhluwe Imfolozi is a big five game park, and also has many other great endangered animals, like wild dogs, honey badgers and hundreds of birds and much smaller creatures that are often overlooked.
But are a big part of the ecosystem to keep all things running smoothly.
Down south in the Imfolozi, Mpila Camp is the central area for accommodation with other private lodges as well Like 2 and 4-bed safari tents
2 and 5-bed chalets and then also luxury lodges. Imfolozi offers one, a greater area to explore in and the possibility of witnessing cats are better as it's a bit more remote gives the cats a chance to get away and hide...
The Hluhluwe game reserve is really famous in the conservation world, Mainly for Dr. Players, timeless work for bringing back the rhinos for extinction back in the 30s...
The Rhino Elephants & buck had been hunted very severely and were almost all gone. Thanks to Dr. Player you can see them in the wild again today ...he worked on many projects in the parks and because of Dr. Player many animals thrive here. there were many people involved in doing this with him including many Zulu's who loved this area and wanted it kept as a reserve, as it once was 600 years before.
This area was once the hunting grounds of the Zulu Kings and nobody was allowed in to hunt, the penalty was the death...