The pride of Africa

Shambala Private Game Reserve covers almost 12 000 hectares of natural landscape in South Africa’s Limpopo Province and is home to Africa’s famous Big Five, the leopard, lion, elephant, black and white rhino, and buffalo.

Among the antelope species there are the endangered sable antelope, black impala and tsessebe, in addition to numerous blesbok, duiker, eland, gemsbok, kudu, nyala and steenbok. The tall, elegant giraffe, herds of wildebeest and troops of zebra are easily spotted, but you can also expect to see some bush pigs trotting through the bush with their stiff little tails pointing upwards. Amongst the smaller cats there are caracal and large-spotted genet, and you may even be lucky enough to see a porcupine with its quills erect, or a leopard tortoise lumbering along.