Ultimate Greater Kruger
11 nights, 4 stops — big cats & bushveld.
From Sabi Sand to Kruger, the route is built around the Greater Kruger’s big cats and bushveld.
Round trip · returns to Timbavati Private Nature Reserve
What you'll see
The journey, one day at a time
Into Sabi Sand
Arrive in Sabi Sand, met and transferred to your accommodation.
Off-road leopard country
Off-road, tracker-led drives for the world's finest leopard viewing, with the full Big Five.
Off-road leopard country
Dawn and dusk drives following the cats by sign — leopard, lion and more, up close.
On to Timbavati
Transfer to Timbavati and settle in, with time to get your bearings.
White-lion bush
Off-road drives across wild Greater-Kruger bush for the Big Five and the famed white lions.
White-lion bush
More of the wild bush — lion, elephant and leopard, with fewer vehicles.
On to Klaserie
Transfer to Klaserie and settle in, with time to get your bearings.
Wild bush & walking
Off-road drives and walking safaris across one of the Greater Kruger's largest, wildest traverses.
On to Kruger
Transfer to Kruger and settle in, with time to get your bearings.
Self-drive Big Five
Game drives across Kruger's roads and waterholes for the Big Five, by self-drive or with a ranger.
Self-drive Big Five
More of the park — working the rivers and waterholes for lion, leopard, elephant and more.
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.
Where this journey goes
Hand-picked camps & lodges
Londolozi
A legendary family-run Sabi Sand lodge — a pioneer of the leopard viewing the reserve is famous for.
Singita Boulders
Singita's flagship Sabi Sand lodge on the Sand River — a benchmark for refined safari luxury.
Cheetah Plains
A strikingly modern, all-electric exclusive-use villa lodge in Sabi Sand, design-forward and private.
Tanda Tula Safari Camp
A celebrated tented camp in Timbavati — classic canvas safari in white-lion country.
The Last Word Kitara
A standout lodge at Klaserie Private Nature Reserve, in wild walking country.
Singita Lebombo
Singita's glass-and-steel lodge on a private Kruger concession, perched over the Lebombo hills — design-led and superb.
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.