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A tent at Kwafubesi Tented Safari Camp lit up at dusk, seen from above, with bushveld and hills under an orange sky

Mabula · Five tents

Kwafubesi Tented Safari Camp

A small tented camp for ten guests, with oil lamps, boma dinners and drives across the Mvubu plain.

FromR5 889pp / night sharing

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The lodge

Five canvas tents for ten guests on the edge of the Mvubu plain, in the malaria-free Mabula Private Game Reserve.

Kwafubesi, the 'place of the giant eagle owl', is a small tented camp tucked into the tree line beside the Mvubu plain in the Mabula Private Game Reserve. Its five canvas tents stand on raised platforms with private decks, and it never takes more than ten guests.

Meals are served in a thatched lapa or around the boma fire, and the rate includes selected drinks and two game drives a day. Guests check in at Mabula Game Lodge and are driven the 20 minutes to camp; children are welcome from age 8.

Highlights

  • Only five tents and ten guests
  • Boma dinners, high tea and dinners on your own deck
  • Selected drinks and two game drives a day included
  • Malaria-free, about two hours from Johannesburg

In pictures

A look inside

Your stay

Where you sleep, how you spend the days

Accommodation

  • Five canvas tents on raised platforms, each with a private wooden deck
  • En-suite bathrooms with a stone bath or shower, fans, electric blankets and mosquito nets
  • Two guests a tent at most

Activities

  • Early-morning and sundowner game drives in open 4x4 vehicles
  • Guided bush walks for guests over 12, booked ahead
  • Horseback safaris for guests over 3 and quad-bike safaris for guests over 12, booked ahead
  • A 90-minute star-gazing night drive

The fine print

What your rate covers

Included

  • Three meals a day
  • Selected drinks
  • Two game drives a day

Not included

  • Conservation fee: R220 per adult and R110 per child per stay
  • Transfers
  • Spa treatments and optional activities

Good to know

  • Wi-Fi reaches the main dining area only, not the tents
  • Children 8 and older stay in their own tent and pay the adult rate
  • Guests check in and park at Mabula Game Lodge reception

Getting there

Finding your way to the bush

Routes and transfers

  • About 200 km from Johannesburg by road, via the N1 and Bela-Bela
  • Follow the signs to the Mabula Game Lodge main gate, where a guide meets you; the camp warns that GPS directions can be wrong

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