Kruger Safaris: National Park and Greater Kruger
Kruger safaris, planned around you. Kruger is not one product. Stay inside the national park, choose a private reserve in Greater Kruger, combine the two, travel privately or build it into a wider South African journey. Spurwing helps you choose with context.
Inside the park or on a private reserve
Kruger National Park and the Greater Kruger reserves on its unfenced boundary
Guided game drives
Open vehicles and professional guides — private where you want them
Johannesburg to the bush
Transfers, road and air connections and the next stage in one plan
Since 1996
Nearly 30 years of ground operations in South Africa
YOUR FIRST DECISION
What kind of Kruger experience are you imagining?
Inside Kruger National Park
Immense scale, national-park atmosphere and a safari that can be shaped around different camps, routes and guiding choices.
Greater Kruger private reserves
Lodge-led safari rhythm, guided game drives and a more contained stay where much of the experience is organised around you.
Combine both
For travellers with enough time, combining national park and private reserve can deliver two genuinely different perspectives.
Inside the park itself, Hamiltons Tented Camp and Hoyo Hoyo Safari Lodge are on the private Mluwati Concession, where drives run twice a day and vehicles may leave the road. Both have six suites, are fully inclusive and take guests from 12 unless booked exclusively.
FOUR WAYS TO BEGIN
Start with a Kruger safari
Three of these are 3-day packages: the Kruger Explorer inside Kruger National Park, and two camps in the private Timbavati reserve. The Luxury Kruger Safari is a five-day journey quoted for your dates. Choose one as it stands, or use it as the starting point for something tailored. For a small group, the 4-day Kruger Park Explorer takes up to ten guests.
Multi-Day Package · Kruger National Park
Kruger Explorer
Three days and two nights from Johannesburg or Pretoria: the Panorama Route on the way in, then game drives in Kruger National Park from Hippo Hollow or similar.
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Multi-Day Package · Greater Kruger, Kruger National Park
Tented Timbavati Safari
Shindzela, named after the honey badger in the Shangaan language, offers an authentic tented safari experience in the…
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Multi-Day Package · Greater Kruger, Kruger National Park
Eco Kruger Safari – Umlani Bushcamp
Umlani Bush Camp is an authentic, eco-friendly safari lodge located in the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve , which…
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Multi-Day Package · Kruger National Park
Luxury Kruger Safari
Five days from Johannesburg: the Panorama Route and Kruger National Park game drives, then two nights in the private…
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Three 3-day Kruger safaris, side by side
One inside Kruger National Park, two in the private Timbavati reserve. Choose the one that fits, or ask us to tailor it.
The current published price for each package, per person sharing, is shown on its card above. Tell us your dates and we will confirm availability and the final price.
Kruger Explorer
- Where: Kruger National Park, via the Panorama Route
- Duration: 3 days / 2 nights
- Stay: Hippo Hollow Country Estate, Hazyview, or similar
- Meals: Breakfast and dinner (lunch on day two at your own cost)
- Safari: Game drives in Kruger National Park in 4×4 safari vehicles: a late-afternoon drive on day one, a full day on day two and a final half day
- Transport: Return road transfers from Johannesburg or Pretoria
- Fees: Kruger National Park conservation fees are not included (per person per day; subject to change)
Tented Timbavati Safari
- Where: Timbavati Private Game Reserve, Greater Kruger
- Duration: 3 days / 2 nights
- Stay: Shindzela Tented Safari Camp
- Meals: Full board: breakfast, lunch and dinner (drinks not included)
- Safari: Twice-daily game drives in the Timbavati, with an optional guided bush walk
- Transport: Johannesburg or Pretoria pickup, by road
- Fees: Conservation fees are not included (as charged by the reserve; subject to change)
Eco Kruger Safari – Umlani Bushcamp
- Where: Timbavati Private Nature Reserve, Greater Kruger
- Duration: 3 days / 2 nights
- Stay: Umlani Bush Camp
- Meals: Full board, with local beverages
- Safari: Twice-daily game drives in the Timbavati, with optional bush walks
- Transport: Return road transfers
- Fees: Conservation fees are not included (as charged by the reserve; subject to change)
COMPLETE-VALUE PLANNING
The safari is more than the nightly rate
We look at what is actually included, how you will reach the property, how game viewing works, how many nights make sense and what the stay does to the wider itinerary. The cheapest room or package on a search screen is not automatically the best-value safari.
Accommodation
Choose for location, experience and fit — not only a star rating.
Game viewing
Understand whether drives are included, shared, private or arranged separately.
Getting there
Road transfers and itinerary connections should be solved before arrival day.
PLAN WITH CONTEXT
Useful before you book
PERSONALLY HANDLED
One plan from Johannesburg to the bush and beyond
Spurwing coordinates the safari with Johannesburg, airport movements, road transfers, accommodation and the next stage of your South African itinerary. Fewer disconnected bookings means fewer gaps for you to solve.
- Road or air transfers from Johannesburg and O.R. Tambo
- The stay, the game drives and the nights that make sense
- The Cape, the coast or the city leg that follows
SOUTH AFRICA, PERSONALLY HANDLED.
Start with the safari you want — not a package code.
Tell us what matters to you. We will help shape the Kruger option, stay and logistics around the experience you actually want.