Africa on Foot Wilderness Trails

Africa on Foot Wilderness Trails are located in the Maseke Balule Game Reserve in the Greater Kruger, situated between Hoedspruit and Phalaborwa in Limpopo Province. It is an 8,000-hectare private game reserve, which shares open borders with the Kruger National Park. The Olifants River courses through the reserve, while prominent mountainous ridges and boulder koppies characterise the terrain, making it an incredibly diverse and interesting region to explore on foot.

Africa on Foot Wilderness Trails is a one-of-a-kind mobile safari experience in South Africa. This is one is for the adventurers and nature lovers who are looking for a walking safari experience like no other. A sister camp to Klaserie’s Africa on Foot, Wilderness Trails is designed to offer 3 nights camping in the Maseke Balule Game Reserve, each night in a different location.

Each day is spent walking through the 8,000-hectare reserve in the Greater Kruger Park, and each night is spent at a new, fully set up mobile campsite in a scenic location in the wilderness. A maximum of 8 guests (sleeping in 4 tents) are taken on the Kruger walking adventure of a lifetime. A professional Africa on Foot trained guide and tracker team will lead an informative, thrilling, and unforgettable walk in the wild.

What to Expect

• Set weekly departures are on Mondays & Thursdays
• 3 nights camping in different locations, each day walking new ground
• Canvas dome tents (each sleeping 2 people), individual bucket showers and chemical toilets
• Morning and afternoon walking trails, with brunch and siesta in the bush
• Evening game drives with sundowners in the Maseke Balule Reserve
• New campsite in a new location, set up prior to arrival, every afternoon
• Professional Trails Guide and Tracker conduct two walking trails per day
• Morning walk 3-4 hours, afternoon walk 2-3 hours, arrive at camp +-15h00
• 4 Canvas Dome tents each sleeping 2 people on swags/mattresses
• En suite bucket showers and chemical toilet facilities
• Standing hand basins renewed each morning and afternoon with warm water
• Central mess tent for kitchen and dining
• Campfire in the evenings
• Solar powered lanterns in the camp and one supplied per tent
• Light breakfast in the morning before departure, packed brunch to be enjoyed in the bush, snacks provided in the afternoon before 3-course dinner at night
• Game viewer for evening safaris and transfers in and out of the reserve
• Full-day guided walking safaris in the Maseke Balule Reserve, Greater Kruger – 3-4 hour

About The Kruger National Park

While guests are out exploring the Kruger on foot, a ground team will be taking down the first camp and setting up the next one in a new location. A packed brunch will be enjoyed in the bush, while snacks and refreshments will be on offer upon arrival at camp. Evening game drives complete the experience, before campfire dinners and bed in a canvas dome tent.

The largest game reserve in South Africa, the Kruger National Park is larger than Israel. Nearly 2 million hectares of land that stretch for 352 kilometres (20 000 square kilometres) from north to south along the Mozambique border, is given over to an almost indescribable wildlife experience. Certainly it ranks with the best in Africa and is the flagship of the country’s national parks - rated as the ultimate safari experience.

Lying in the heart of the Lowveld is a wildlife sanctuary like no other, its atmosphere so unique that it allows those who enter its vastness to immerse themselves in the unpredictability and endless wilderness that is the true quality of Africa.

The Kruger National Park lies across the provinces of Mpumalanga and Limpopo in the north of South Africa, just south of Zimbabwe and west of Mozambique.