Walking Safari At Bateleur Safari Camp 3 Days 2 Nights

Overview

A Walking Safari at Bateleur Safari Camp 3 Days / 2 Nights (more days and nights can be added), offer a combination of guided bush walks and game drives, giving you greater flexibility to choose your preferred game viewing activity day by day, depending on your group’s preferences. All wildlife walking safaris are led by professional, experienced safari guides who are armed and they always have an experienced tracker who is their back up on your walking safari.

This safari is offered in more than one location, as we partner with several different lodges that focus on walking safaris as a key activity. We used a Walking Safari at Bateleur Safari Camp for this sample itinerary. Accommodation for this itinerary is in modern, luxury safari tented units. All meals are provided, except on travelling days. Sometimes, activity plans change last-minute depending on the weather or local conditions.

Itinerary

Day 1 Johannesburg to Bateleur Safari Camp, Timbavati, Greater Kruger Park (D)

For this itinerary and tour idea, we have used Bateleur Safari Camp, located in the private Timbavati Game Reserve, as accommodation for the walking safari. We can suggest any other lodge, according to your budget, requirements and availability at the lodges. It can also be done longer, for 4 or 5 days or more.

Check in at the Johannesburg or Cape Town Airports for a morning flight to the airport located nearest to the lodge where you will do your safari. For Bateleur the Hoedspruit Eastgate Airport (HDS) is the nearest with a 1hr flight from Johannesburg or a 2hr 20min flight from Cape Town. For other walking safari locations, either the Nelspruit KMIA Airport (MQP) or the Skukuza Airport (SZK) will be quoted on, including a road transfer to the appropriate lodge.

Arrival at the lodge is scheduled for the afternoon where you will enjoy a welcome drink before being taken to your room where you can settle in and freshen up. You will meet back at the main camp area and then head out on a game drive.

Enjoy sundowner drinks before embarking on a night game drive back to the camp. A traditional African dinner is served on return to your lodge. (Lunch & Dinner included, if you arrive early enough lunch will be included as well).

Overnight: Bateleur Safari Camp

Day 2 – Bateleur Safari Camp (B, L, D)

After the early morning wake-up call, you will enjoy a fresh cup of coffee/tea and snacks before heading out to the bush. You and the group will chat to your ranger about what you’d prefer to do; for example, bush walk or game drive or a combination of both. The morning will be based on the weather, animal movements and so on. These walks can be anything from 1 – 4 hours, depending on the fitness of the group.

After lunch and some relaxing time at the swimming pool or a siesta, it’s time for the afternoon and night spotlight game drive, which will bring you in to contact with nocturnal animals such as Bush babies, Civets, Genets, African wild cats, Porcupines and so forth.

Return to the lodge to freshen up for dinner.

After a sumptuous dinner, enjoy some quiet time with the sounds of the bush beneath the starry African skies or chat to your guides and fellow guests about the day’s sightings and plans for the next day’s activities. (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included).

Overnight: Bateleur Safari Camp

Day 3 – Bateleur Safari Camp – Johannesburg – Last Day (B)

An early rise this morning to ensure you don’t miss anything on your last day of your meandering walking safari package with a final bush walk. Breakfast is served once you arrive back at your tented camp, after which you will check out and get ready for the road transfer to either the nearest airport or your road transfer back to Johannesburg. (Breakfast included).

END OF TOUR

Cost

The costs for our tours & safaris on this website are estimated costs and intended to give you an idea as to what is possible and logical for your itinerary for a safari and for touring. These costs are not fixed and depend on the location and time of year and costs are subject to a final quotation and pricing.

This type of walking safari can be done at any of various private lodge locations, subject to availability, your requirements and budget. There are also various special offers during certain quiet times of the year and we will certainly include that in your costing, if applicable. We will include, where applicable, road transfers, accommodation, meals, day tours, walking safaris and game drives, we can also include domestic/regional flights from either Johannesburg or Cape Town, depending on your budget and requirements.

This estimate includes all road transfers, accommodation, meals, walking safaris and game drives and excludes all flights and visa costs, curios and personal items.

Please contact us to tailor-make a tour & safari for you, taking your requirements, budget and season of travel into consideration – we will recommend the best for you!

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Highlights

Bateleur Safari Camp – Excellent game viewing greater Kruger area with great Sightings – Alternative lodges are available, depending on your time of travel, the number of persons and then your budget for more affordable or more expensive lodges offering walking safaris.
Flexible combination of bush walks and game drives.
A reasonable level of walking fitness is required. People with limited mobility may find a safari with mainly game drives a better option.
Please note: at Bateleur requires that guests 65 years and older, who want to do the bush walk to bring a Dr’s medical certificate declaring them fit, this may not be the case should we use other lodges for their walking safaris, we will advise.
Guided bush walks are preferable in the mornings when it’s cool.
Game drives are better in the afternoons to avoid walking in the heat.
Flexible itinerary based on the group’s preferences – You have a say in guided activities as this is a flexible tour and there’s no rigid agenda – but the wishes of the entire group have to be kept in mind as it is not always possible for half the group to do walking and the other half driving.
Tracking animals on foot – from a safe distance.
Emphasis on authentic, immersive bush experience.
The guided bush walks are led by proficient, armed nature/safari guides.
Game drives are conducted in open safari vehicles.
We work with a selection of lodges that offer walking safaris to suit your budget and requirements.
Bring good used walking shoes.
A minimum age of 12 and older applies for all guided game walks.