Overview & Rates

Location	24 000 ha Makuleke Concession in the Northern Kruger Park, bordering Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Malaria area	Yes
Big 5 game reserve	Yes
Getting there	6.5 hours by road from Johannesburg Direct flights can be arranged from Lanseria Airport to the Camp at an approximate cost of R 1900 per person one way
Total number of tents	20
Type of accommodation	6 family tents (sleeps up to 4 people), 14 standard tents
Children under 12 years accepted?	From 6 years are welcome

Validity	Special rate for advance booking
27 January 2012 - 10 January 2013	R 1,880.00
** SPECIAL OFFERS **
Brunch & Dinner only special R 1,478.00 valid until 10 January 2013 Min 3 night stay – brunch & dinner only R 1,268.00 valid until 15 March 2012 Normal child rates apply Min 3 night stay – meals & two game drives daily R 1,570.00 valid until 15 March 2012 Normal child rates apply Walking Safari Valid 01 April 2012 - 31 October 2012 R 4,330.00 per person for a 3 night trail. Single supplement is R 1,645.00 in total Includes accommodation, all meals & two camp activities per day Departs on a Monday & Friday, max 8 guests per trail, minimum age 14 years
Click here for further information on the Walking Trails ** Surcharges will apply over holiday periods & long weekends

• Luxury accommodation
• Two game drives in open Land Rover per day
• Optional Bush Walks (on request)
• Brunch & dinner daily
• Teas/coffees/snacks

• There is a single supplement of R 685.00 per night at Pafuri Camp (valid until 10 January 2013)

• Children between the ages of 6 & 12 years, sharing a family tent with two full paying adults will pay R 897.00 per child per night (valid until 10 Jan 2013) – brunch & dinner only
• Children between the ages of 6 & 12 years, sharing a family tent with two full paying adults will pay R 1,325.00 per child per night (valid until 10 Jan 2012) – brunch, dinner & two drives
• Children 12 years and up will pay full adult price
• Children in own tent will pay full adult price
• At the discretion of the Game Ranger, children of 6 years and older are allowed on game drives

• Entrance fee to the Kruger Park is R 40.00 per person per stay - this fee has to be paid direct at the gate on entry into the Kruger National Park
• Minimum stay two nights
• Rates quoted are only applicable to South African Residents
• Discounted rates for Overseas Residents are available on request

About The Lodge & The Reserve

Pafuri Camp is situated between the Limpopo and the Luvuvhu Rivers in the northern sector of the Kruger National Park, in a 24 000-hectare area called the Pafuri or the Makuleke. This area is the ancestral home of the Makuleke people and is one of the most diverse and scenically attractive areas in the Kruger National Park.

This area is certainly the wildest and most remote part of the Park and offers varied vegetation, great game viewing, the best birding in all of the Kruger, and is filled with folklore of the early explorers and ancient civilisations. It is well known for its fever tree forests, beautiful gorges and Crook’s Corner, where the Limpopo and Luvuvhu rivers and three countries, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique, meet. The region is considered one of Kruger's biodiversity hotspots, with some of the largest herds of elephant and buffalo, leopard and lion and incredibly prolific birdlife.

Pafuri Camp is the only camp accessible to self-drivers in the extreme northern sector of the Kruger Park. Being so different from the rest of the Park, it complements the scenery and experience offered at the lodges in the southern Kruger and the Sabi Sands.

Accommodation consists of 20 tented rooms (including six family rooms for up to four people), each with en-suite bathroom facilities. The tented rooms all look out over the Luvuvhu River; guests can sit on their decks and watch for elephant, nyala, waterbuck or bushbuck coming down to drink - to name but a few!

Activities in the Makuleke / Pafuri area are extremely varied and interesting. Game drives in open 4x4 vehicles, night drives, walks, hides (including some that will cater for sleep-outs) are all part of the range of activities that are on offer. One of the most important aspects of this area is its palaeo-anthropological history, with its plethora of evidence of early human ancestors stretching back some 2 million years ago, through the Stone Age and into the Iron Age about 400 years ago when the Thulamela dynasty ruled in this area.

This dynasty built incredible structures that are not dissimilar to that found in the Great Zimbabwe. Throughout the concession, there is evidence of its human inhabitants, in the form of rock paintings and artefacts - under many a baobab are Stone Age hand tools, such as hand axes, to be found.

• 20 tented rooms with six family rooms for up to four people. These are East African-style "Meru" tents that can accommodate two people comfortably per tent. The tents are spread on raised platform along the riverbank to allow the animals to move undisturbed to and from the river.
• The main area with its large deck, lounge, dining and main pool form the centre of the camp.
• The west side of the camp, Pafuri West has 13 tents. Pafuri East has 7 tents with its own plunge pool, deck and boma area
• Each tent has en-suite facilities with indoor and outdoor showers. Each tented room is under a shaded thatch canopy under canvas.
• Dining and bar area are under a canopy of majestic ebony trees.
• Large swimming pool in the main area that services Pafuri West.
• Dinners served in a traditional style boma under the stars, on wooden decks overlooking the Luvuvhu River or indoors under thatch.
• Fan in tents

The Kruger National Park is the primary destination in South Africa for many international tourists. Each year more than half a million visitors are registered.

The National Park was opened in 1898 at the instigation of then-president Paul Kruger. After hunters had considerably decimated the originally rich game stock, all the land between the Sabie and the Crocodile Rivers was put under the protection of Nature Conservation to ensure the survival of the remaining animals. Only as recently as 1961 was the extended Kruger Park fenced in.

The park stretches from the Crocodile River in the south up to the Limpopo River, which is the international border in the north. Altogether it is 350 km long, 65 km wide and comprises an area of about 20,000 sq km.

A web of roads of 1863 kilometres leads through the National Park, 697 km of them being tarred. For the visitor there are numerous differently equipped rest camps, most of them scenically positioned. Within the park boundaries, travel is only allowed between sunrise and sunset. After dark one has to stay in one of the fenced restcamps.

The best time for observing the animals is the dry winter season. Then the grass is low and bushes and trees don't have leaves, so that one can have an unobstructed view. Because it virtually doesn't rain in winter, the animals come to the waterholes to drink in the mornings and evenings and can easily be watched from the car.

Directions

Johannesburg is about 630km or a 6½ - 7 hour drive from Pafuri on a tar road. The most direct route is to take the N1 towards Polokwane (Pietersburg).

Leaving Johannesburg take the N1 north towards Pretoria, taking care to stay on the N1 and bypass the city. Just north of Pretoria and about 65km into your journey you will encounter the Pumulani Toll Plaza where a R7.20 toll is payable. Only 35km further north a R33.00 toll is payable at the Carousel Toll Plaza.

Continue north towards Polokwane passing through the Kranzkop Plaza (R26.00) and passing the turn off to Modimolle (formerly Nylstroom) about 165km into your journey. A further 75km north of here is the Nyl Plaza (R33.00) and the turn off to Mookgophong (formerly Naboomspruit).

Continuing north past the turn off to Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus) you enter the outskirts of the city of Polokwane just over 300km from Johannesburg. The road continues straight into the CBD of this provincial capital, ensure that you turn left onto the N1 where this is signposted ‘Makhado’ and ‘Zimbabwe’. Follow this ring road around the city and continue north towards Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt). About 65km north of Polokwane you will cross the Tropic of Capricorn and shortly there after the Capricorn Toll Plaza (R27.00). Continue north to Makhado, reaching the eastern outskirts of this large town approximately 415km into the trip. The town will be visible on your left hand side but is bypassed by the N1.