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Mkhaya Game Reserve Tour

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Mkhaya Game Reserve Full Day Tour The reserve is crisscrossed with dry riverbeds, dotted with waterholes, and has a network of intertwined game-viewing roads. Mkhaya currently supports three of the Big Five; with leopard, buffalo, and . .
Country: Swaziland
City: Manzini
Duration: 8 Hour(s) - 0 Minute(s)
Tour Category: Full Day Tours
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Mkhaya Game Reserve Full Day Tour

The reserve is crisscrossed with dry riverbeds, dotted with waterholes, and has a network of intertwined game-viewing roads. Mkhaya currently supports three of the Big Five; with leopard, buffalo, and rhino being present on the reserve.

You should be able to see the rhino up close and personal. A host of other games such as giraffe, hippo, crocodile, roan and sable antelope, and tsessebe, eland, kudu, ostrich, and vervet monkey are also seen regularly. The birdlife is also abundant and the rare Narina Trogan can sometimes be seen in camp along with the more common species such as the crested guinea fowl.

Mkhaya was set up as a breeding program for endangered species such as the black rhino, roan, and sable - a sighting of the elusive black rhino is normally very high on most visitors' lists.

Named after the Senegalia (Acacia) nigrescens tree once prolific across the Lowveld, ‘Mkhaya’ also aptly means ‘home’ derived from the fact that this valuable hardwood is the chosen tree for structural building in Eswatini. Knobthorn trunks have been incorporated into some of Stone Camp’s structures.

With a somewhat different history beginning with the conservation of Eswatini's (formerly Swaziland) beautiful indigenous Nguni cattle, Mkhaya took on the vision of nurturing and propagating locally threatened and endangered species. With very stringent conservation security, Mkhaya is now home to Eswatini’s only buffalo, sable antelope, Livingstone’s eland, and tsessebe populations.

Along with special species such as black & white rhinos, giraffes, and roan antelope, these animals are often sighted at close range on safari. Birding is an additional highlight.

Mkhaya has several fenced areas to enable intense species management and the high security necessary for endangered species. As and when population numbers grow, nuclei are released into the bigger game sections, which to date include sable, black and white rhino, tsessebe to name a few.

Mkhaya is an award-winning reserve, having received the AA's 'Travellers Value Award for Top-End Leisure Travellers' & 'AA Highly Recommended Accommodation' while the rhino viewing has been quoted as being '...on par with a mountain gorilla encounter in Central Africa', by photo-journalist Stephen Cunliffe in Wild Magazine.

Mkhaya is staffed and patrolled entirely by Swazis from neighboring communities and currently boasts what is arguably Africa's most effective anti-poaching unit. It is self-financed through visitor revenues and your support is greatly appreciated as a means of sustaining this unique international conservation effort.

A trip to Mkhaya is a trip into Real Africa - a soul-enriching, quality experience you'll never forget.

Essential Information: Please note pre-booking is essential; No children under 10 years; There is NO ELECTRICITY nor INTERNET at Stone Camp - a chance to truly get off the grid. The accommodation units are semi-open, with no doors or windows. There are fixed entry and exit times of either 10 am or 4 pm depending on your chosen package. The meeting point is not staffed and guests are met by prior arrangement only.

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