4-Day Hluhluwe Imfolozi and St Lucia Safari from Durban | La Vacanza Travel

4-Day Hluhluwe Imfolozi and St Lucia Safari from Durban

Duration: 4 days
Destination: South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
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  • 4 days
  • Durban
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

Take a private 3 night 4 day safari tour of the Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve and visit the St. Lucia wetland reserve. This is a specialized, fully inclusive private safari, with a hippo and crocodile boat cruise and visit to the Cheetah rehabilitation center (optional extra).

Spend 2 nights in the Hluhluwe Game reserve, for your Big 5 safari experience. Your last night is in the quaint tourist town of St. Lucia, bordering on the isimangaliso Wetland Park. Here you will have an included boat cruise and visit the beautiful Cape Vidal beach for the day.

The trip includes all guided transfers, entrance fees, activities, accommodation and meals where stipulated.

You will be collected in Durban or the airport and transported north to the wild area of Zululand. Your guide will point out interesting sights along the way as you drive through the beautiful countryside.

On arrival at Hluhluwe town you will visit the Cheetah Rehabilitation Center. Here you will get to interact and learn about these amazing cats and their conservation struggles in Africa. Also see and interact with other wild cats such as serval, caracal and African wild cats. After this once and a lifetime experience make your way across to the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve for your Big 5 safari! You will spend the next 2 days driving around the reserve on game drives searching for animals, birds and general wildlife, with your highly experienced wildlife guide on hand to unlock the wonders of nature!

Enjoy comfortable and unique accommodation in the Park camps, with meals under the stars at night and hot brunches in the bush in the morning. Game drives will take place early morning and late afternoon, the best and most productive time to find the big game animals, with a special night safari with the Park rangers included.

After brunch on the third day the tour makes its way across to the coastline and the unique town of St. Lucia, the only town in the world to be completely surrounded by a national park. After checking into your lodge take a sunset boat cruise on the estuary where sightings of hippos are guaranteed, as well as crocs and a whole host of birdlife!

Dinner is out in this spectacular little town, where it is not uncommon to have hippos taking a leisurely stroll down main street! Dinner is for your own account, the only meal not included. Then it is off to bed for a well earned rest. The following morning we have breakfast at the lodge and then check out and head for the iSimangaliso Wetland Reserve. Spend the day exploring the reserve, ending at Cape Vidal beach an unspoiled paradise. Here you will have a picnic lunch, but watch your food carefully or else the monkeys will be the ones with the full tummies, not you!

Then exit the reserve and make your way back to Durban after a truly exhilarating wildlife experience.

Inclusions
  • 3 nights accommodation
  • Fuel surcharge
  • National Park fees
  • All activities
  • Professional guide
  • Meals: 3 Breakfast, 2 snack lunch, 2 dinners, tea/ coffee and breakfast snacks daily

Exclusions
  • Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
  • Gratuities
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
  • A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
  • Near public transportation
  • Not recommended for travelers with back problems
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
  • Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
Voucher info

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Duration

4 days


User's Reviews

123lindaf

21 Apr, 2023

We found Endless Summers when looking for a company that would allow us to actually stay in the parks rather than drive an our or more just to get there. It was more than we had expected! Wade was our guide and he was wonderful! Pick up at the airport, driver, tour guide, chef, he did it all with a smile and was knowledgeable and friendly. We saw countless animals including the rhino and African wild dog pack. I would highly recommend Endless Summers for any personalized tour of South Africa. It made our trip!

castaways01

05 Oct, 2022

Our group of five did the 4 day, 3 night Hluhluwe Imfolozi – St. Lucia tour with Endless Summer and had a fantastic time seeing a wide array of animals – many of them up close and personal. If I could give this experience 10 stars I would, because it was that amazing – an awesome life changing experience. Everything was smooth and professional from pickup at our Durban Hotel to drop off at that same hotel 3 dàys later. This was at the end of a 2-week South Africa visit that included trips to 3 cities and several day and night safari drives and activities. Owner Rhys Scott-Dawkins and his fellow guide Matthew were knowledgable, personable, caring, accommodating and awesome cooks. It was a “private” adventure. We were the only ones in the van and it was so much nicer than being crammed in a bus with strangers. Hiring a company like Endless Summer is so much easier and less stressful than trying to map out an itinerary and go on your own. They hired sub contractor guides for most of the excursions...and these folks except for one woman (who worked for the reserve, did a night drive and was truly incompetent) were experts. Actually staying in the huge wildlife reserve, the oldest in Africa, was the best part of the trip. Accommodations were far from fancy, but being in the bush dis-connected from distractions of tv, internet and cel phones, was worth the trade-off. Seeing an elephant on the pathway in front of the house and having warthogs and a herd of Nyala visit our back yard at sundown was exciting and made for great photo opps. Early morning – 5-6 a.m. and night are the best times to see animals out and about. The self catering house (that may be as old as the reserve...lol) was 3 bedrooms of twin beds with a large fully equipped kitchen and outdoor patio. The guys stocked up on food, snacks, water, drinks and cooked for us...they also did a few awesome Braai's (barbecues) and picnics at scenic spots. They stayed in a modern tent down the road. The reserve was on a generator that shut down from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. I said in the beginning this excursion was life changing. Why? I could write a book on how magical it was..but in short, seeing so many animals and bird species and hearing their sounds gave me a new appreciation of life and the peacefulness of the bush. I have never seen such beauty in both natural landscapes and the wildlife. It was calming to watch elephant, giraff, zebra, hippo, rhino, hyena, warthog, bushpig, lion, etc. in their own environment roaming free. I highly recommend Endless Summer.

Q1997IJmatthewc

12 Oct, 2021

I recently went a tour of the game reserves with Endless Summer and it was incredible. Our guide was so knowledgable, friendly and accomodating. We felt completely safe at all times and the food was amazing. They created a bespoke and unique surf tour for us after our Big-5 tour and we visited Scottburgh, the Transkei and Jeffries bay. I caught some of the best waves of my life. Can definately reccomend Endless Summer to provide a wonderful, safe and unique experience anywhere is South Africa.

briann634

07 Sep, 2021

ALL TIME FANTASTIC! We booked multiple tours with Endless Summer. Hands down best company to be with if you are in South Africa. They were knowledgeable and personable. We flowed through many parts of the country with ease. These oaks have it dialed! Thanks again Ant!

LaurenB1813

06 May, 2019

Amazing trip, hippo cruise was fun, boys enjoyed getting up close and the river sunset cruise was worth it. Saw so many elephants but unfortunately we didn’t get to see any big cats but what an amazing holiday.

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