3 Day Kruger Park Treehouse Safari

This is definitely one of your most popular budget safari getaways and a must for those with a taste for the alternative.

The fascinating Treehouse Camp is situated along the elevated banks of the pristine perennial Klaserie River and is home to a wide variety of animals including Africa's Big 5. Falling asleep to the eerie wails of hyena and other African wildlife enhance this truly African bush experience.

These romantic treehouses, made of reeds and canvas with thatched roofs, are fitted with amenities to ensure that you are comfortable even though you are staying up in a tree! Each treehouse is unique and features its own wooden deck overlooking the river or watering hole, where animals come to drink.

Spend a full day game viewing in the world-famous Kruger Park. Enjoy a thrilling sunset game drive on the Big Five Private Game Reserve in Greater Kruger.

After a morning game walk with a professional ranger in the Private Game Reserve, we journey via the spectacular scenery of the Blyde River on the Panorama Route back to Johannesburg.

The 3 Day Kruger Park Treehouse Safari offers a superb wildlife experience with a difference!

Tour Highlights

• Private Game Reserve Big Five sunset game drive
• Full day of game viewing inside Kruger National Park
• Guided sunrise bush walk in Private Game Reserve
• Panoramic Route - Blyde River Canyon & Three Rondawels

Day 1: Johannesburg to Private Game Reserve

The Kruger Treehouse Safari starts from Johannesburg, South Africa, where we will collect you from your accommodation (Hotels, Guesthouses and Backpackers), or from Oliver Thambo International Airport in the morning.

We travel via Dullstroom or Nelspruit  to Tremisana Game Lodge, where we embark on a three-hour Sunset Game Drive. The sunset to night game drive will take place in the Private Game Reserve where the safari lodge is located.

Your guide will use a spotlight when the sun goes down to locate the nocturnal animals roaming the game park and if you're lucky a leopard might await you! We explore the Big Five Game Reserve in an open-sided landcruiser.  

After Dinner in the Boma at the safari lodge we transfer you to the excellent value-for-money Treehouse Camp. Each Treehouse is unique and comes with its own viewing deck. All soap & towels, mosquito nets, fans and bedding are provided ensuring you a comfortable stay. Your Treehouse also has its own private bathroom facilities.

Meal Plan: Dinner

About the Treehouse Camp

The Treehouse Camp offers a refreshing alternative to the standard safari accommodation out there, as you stay in intriguing treehouses in an unspoiled bush setting! Accommodation is in romantic thatched treehouses tucked away in the trees along the pristine perennial Klaserie River or overlooking the camp’s floodlit waterhole visited by buffalo and other wildlife.

These elevated treehouses are built out of wood, reed and thatch reducing the environmental impact on the dense untamed bush surroundings. You get to listen to the sounds of wild animals at night from the safety of your treehouse, a truly African bush experience! The secure treehouses blend into the bush, getting you up close to unspoiled nature and its wild animals.

Day 2: Kruger National Park

After breakfast you will be transferred to the Orpen Gate of the Kruger National Park in an open game viewing vehicle. The elevated safari vehicle is specifically designed to maximise your game spotting opportunities. There are no windows on the side of the vehicle making it ideal for photography.

You will have a qualified guide who will help spot and identify the animals and birdlife that make the Kruger Park one of the top Game Parks in the world. The bush and open plains around the Orpen and Satara area in the Kruger support large herds of giraffe, zebra and other antelope which in turn attract the predators. The Satara region boasts one of the largest concentration of lions in Africa.

After a full day's game spotting you will return to the Treehouse Camp where you will sit down to dinner around the camp fire and reminisce over the days wildlife sightings.

About Kruger National Park

The world-renowned Kruger National Park is one of Africa’s best safari destinations and the premier game reserve in South Africa. Covering nearly 2 million hectares of untamed African bush the variety of habitats in Kruger Park are home to a unrivalled diversity of plants and animals. 

Kruger is South Africa’s top travel destination offering superb game viewing, including massive populations of Africa’s iconic Big Five - elephant, rhino, leopard, lion and buffalo. This vast wilderness area is inhabited by a staggering 147 mammal species and 517 bird species, as well as a variety of other wild animals and 336 tree species. South Africa's flagship national park, Kruger Park is considered a world leader in advanced environmental policies and wildlife management practices. 

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Dinner

Day 3: Private Game Reserve to Johannesburg

We wake up early on the last day at the Treehouse Camp and together with an armed Ranger head into the bush to explore on foot.

This guided bush walk will give you the chance to get up close to buffalo, nyala and other animals without them been frightened off by the sound of an approaching vehicle. Your guide will point out various details of the African bush, including  insects, animal tracks and scats.

You will return to camp for breakfast before we head via the Drakensberg Escarpment back to Johannesburg. Highlights of the drive back along the scenic Panoram Route include sections of the Blyde River Canyon, one of which is Three Rondawels viewpoint.

You will arrive back into Johannesburg at about 17h00 where you will be dropped off at your accommodation of choice or at Oliver Thambo International Airport bringing this fantastic 3 Day Kruger Park Treehouse Safari to an end.

About Balule, Greater Kruger Park

There are no fences separating this 35000-hectare Private Game Park from Kruger National Park allowing the numerous wild animals to roam freely between these wilderness areas. The Olifants River flows through the Bulule Game Reserve attracting a variety of birds and animals year-round.

Balule is home to the iconic Big Five of Africa with buffalo, lion and elephant being sighted the most regularly and sometimes even from the lodge property! Other wildlife commonly sighted in Balule includes giraffe, wildebeest, hyena, zebra, hippo, warthog, mongoose, vervet monkey and various antelope species, such as waterbuck, steenbok, impala and kudu.

Nocturnal animals such as civets, bushbabies, bats, hares, genets, wild cats and porcupines can be spotted on night game drives. Some of the more elusive wild animals found in this part of Greater Kruger include cheetah, African wild dog, bat-eared fox and badger, as well as caracal and serval cat and a variety of antelope species, such suni, roan and sable antelope.

The Greater Kruger Park area consists of various private game parks, such as Balule, that share unfenced boundaries with Kruger National Park proper. Staying in a private game lodge allows you to escape the main throng of tourists, as the Balule game reserve is not open to the general public.

On this exclusive safari experience you get a more secluded bush experience that brings you closer to nature. In the private game reserve you travel on dirt roads encountering much fewer vehicles on your game drives. Another advantage of game viewing in the Balule private reserve is that your qualified guides communicate with each other via two-way radio, increasing the number of wildlife sightings on your drives.

Yet another perk of staying at a private lodge is that off-road driving is permitted in this exclusive game reserve area of the Greater Kruger Park, improving your chances of spotting wildlife in the bush.

Pre and Post Safari Lodge Option:

Please note that we offer convenient pre and post tour lodge accommodation for before and after this Kruger Safari. This Johannesburg accommodation can be added to your tour booking upon request. The travel lodge accommodation is located 10-15 minutes from Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport and the rates include a transfer, en-suite accommodation and breakfast.

2012 Lodge Rates:

• R350 per person sharing
• R550 per single booking

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