Kapama Karula

Fab property with beautiful rooms and super pleasant staff. The camp is well organised — safari drives feel personal and the guides share info with other vehicles so you get amazing sightings. Food’s pretty good too. Sifiso, our guide, was just incredible — his knowledge of animals, plants, and even the stars blew us away. He and Martin, the spotter, made an awesome team. The jeeps were comfy, they stuck to the rules but still got us up close to the Big 5 (and more!) almost every time. Couldn’t have asked for a better safari experience! Thank you Sifiso and Kapama Karula!

Exceptional reserve to see the Big Five with excellent lodge and friendly staff. Who is looking to a safari experinece, this is the place for Big Five and easy access

Karula lodge is top notch. From start to finish everything was spot on. The rooms are huge and well appointed. The food is sublime with allot of attention to detail. The menus were varied. Good quality wine selection. Bongani and Vusi were a great team and the game viewing was excellent. All staff were friendly and helpful. Honestly a wonderful stay.

Fantastic lodge, good food, great service and the game drives were awesome with knowledgeable guides (Elvis and Shane) able to find everything we wanted to see.

We went to Kapama Karula with our daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter and stayed in two villas for 5 days. It was the most amazing experience of my life. When we got picked up from the airport we were greeted by our Ranger Elvis and Tracker Shaney and stepped aboard the Game viewer vehicle. The moment we arrived we started the safari. Throughout the five days we learned from Elvis all about the African animals habitat, some characteristics of the animals, all with a fun sense of humor .The scenery and close up encounters with leopards, lions, elephants, rhino and more, were heart pounding. My granddaughter even got to make a cast of leopard prints that she showed her classmates when she got back home. When we got to Kapama we were greeted warmly by the staff who made us feel so welcomed. In those five days I had many wonderful meals that were creatively executed and a palatal delight. Our server Micheck was very knowledgeable about wine pairings and anticipated our every needs. He went above and beyond to help our stay be one of great fond memories. The villa was the over the top in luxury with a stand alone tub, shower head mounted to the ceiling and ample room to move around. Through the glass windows and facing a beautiful flowing river, was a salt water swimming pool and outdoor lounge area. Kapama has created a bit of paradise and we are so happy we were able to experience it.

We have never had anything other than a great experience at any of the Kapama camps, but Karula is in a league of its own. The hotel rooms were so beautiful, the setting was truly exceptional, the food was consistently delicious, every single member of staff was warm and friendly, and on top of all of that we had the best game viewing I've ever had thanks to our tracker and game ranger. It was my favourite bush holiday yet.