Kgalagadi Predator Safari
What you'll see
The journey, one day at a time
Into Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Arrive in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, met and transferred to your accommodation. After the green, dense bushveld, the Kalahari is a revelation — open, red, severe, with wildlife strung along the dry rivers under enormous skies. The starkness is the point: lions on dunes, cheetah on the flats, raptors on every dead tree, in a landscape that feels like the edge of the world. It is wilderness in its purest South African form.
Kalahari predators
Drives along the Auob and Nossob for black-maned lions, cheetah, gemsbok and superb raptors. More of the desert — predators at the waterholes and raptors over the dunes.
Kalahari predators
More of the desert — predators at the waterholes and raptors over the dunes.
Kalahari predators
Drives along the Auob and Nossob for black-maned lions, cheetah, gemsbok and superb raptors.
Kalahari predators
More of the desert — predators at the waterholes and raptors over the dunes.
Departure
A final morning in onward — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The season changes what you see.
Dry-season bush
Prime bushveld safari — sparse cover, game at water, cool and clear. The Cape is wetter, but the whales are in.
Green summer & the Cape
Lush bush with newborns and migrants; peak, dry, sunny season for Cape Town, the coast and the winelands.
Hand-picked camps & lodges
!Xaus Lodge
A remote community-owned lodge deep in the Kgalagadi dunes — stark, authentic Kalahari.
Tswalu Motse
The main lodge at Tswalu, the vast private Kalahari reserve — exclusive desert luxury (Tswalu, not Kgalagadi itself).
Tswalu Tarkuni
Tswalu's exclusive-use homestead in the private Kalahari reserve — the most lavish desert base in the country.
Kalahari Tented Camp
A dependable tented camp, in the red Kalahari.
Twee Rivieren Rest Camp
A dependable rest camp, in the red Kalahari.
Make it yours.
Add nights, swap a park, extend to the coast — this route is a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us how you travel and we'll route the rest.