Eish! It's Because I'm South African

Lepelle Lodge is situated in the heart of Mpumalanga Province, approximately 4.5 – 5 Hours drive from Johannesburg. A stones throw from some of the lowvelds most famous attractions like, The Kruger National Park, Pilgrims Rest, Gods Window, the Bourke’s Luck Potholes in the Blyde River Canyon and the Echo Caves. This is Leopard Country and the area is home to Africa’s only breeding community of wild Black Leopard.

So you bring the family on Safari to give them a little bit of that feeling of Nature. You bump into a troop of Baboons on your drive and what could possibly go wrong? RIGHT! All the windows are wound up on the rental car, the food stuff is all stowed away out of sight [...]

The lion population in Africa has been reduced by half since the early 1950s. Today, some estimate that fewer than 21,000 remain in all of Africa.

Cities have grown, much land has been given over to farming, hunting has wiped out entire herds, and the times when a herd of springbok could take days to pass through a Karoo town are long past. Yet, thanks to the foresight of conservationists past and present, South Africa remains blessed with abundant wildlife.