The Kwandwe Private Game Reserve, close to Port Elizabeth in South Africa, will introduce a range of activities to its children’s safari programme, the Blue Crane Conservation Club, in January.
The ‘Eco-nect’ activities will include kite building, range shooting simulation, treasure hunts and scavenger hunts. The Club’s activities include a Bugs & Bones walk, Spekboom planting (a type of thicket vegetation native to the Eastern Cape) and fishing.
Families can also participate in Kwandwe’s Voluntourism activities through the reserve’s Ubunye Foundation, which works with communities living on and surrounding the reserve. The activities are tailored according to individual and family interests and skill sets.
There are two sole-use villas, Uplands Homestead and Melton Manor, which are ideal for families. A private ranger, tracker and safari vehicle, and a private chef for tailor-made meals are on hand to look after guests. By next year, three of the six Ecca Lodge suites on the reserve will be family suites, accommodating parents and two children.
The reserve comprises 22 rooms split between four small lodges and 22 000 hectares of wilderness that is home to the Big Five as well as other smaller species. Safari activities include game drives, bush walks, picnics and boat excursions.
