Pafuri Camp is situated between the Limpopo and the Luvuvhu Rivers in the northern sector of the Kruger National Park, in a 24 000 hectare area called the Pafuri or the Makuleke. This area is the ancestral home of the Makuleke people and is the most diverse and scenically attractive area in the Kruger National Park.

Being so different from the rest of the Park, it complements the scenery and experience offered at the lodges in the southern Kruger and the Sabi Sands. So to experience the Kruger in its entirety, travellers visiting any of the lodges in the south should then travel up to the Pafuri / Makuleke region.

This area is certainly the wildest and most remote part of the Park and offers varied vegetation, great game viewing, the best birding in all of the Kruger Park, and is filled with folklore of the early explorers and ancient civilisations. Pafuri Camp, opened in 2005, cater for the traditional Kruger Park visitor and will be the only camp accessible to self-drivers in the extreme northern sector of the Park.

Accommodation will consist of 17 tented rooms (including three family rooms), each with en-suite bathroom facilities. Guests will have the option to book onto any one of our activities during their stay, including game drives in open 4x4 vehicles, night drives throughout the concession, birding walks, foot safaris and mountain biking with an armed guide.

Guests can do selfdrives in and around the Kruger National Park on the conventional roads in their own vehicles. There can be no self driving at all in private vehicles anywhere in the Makuleke concession except on the main access road into and through the area. If guests wish to walk, game drive or night drive anywhere on the concession, then this has to be done in the lodges 4x4 vehicles with the lodges resident guides - all at additional costs to guests.

CAMP DESCRIPTION
• Dining and bar area are under a canopy of majestic ebony trees.
• Large swimming pool
• Dinners served in a traditional style boma under the stars, on our wooden decks overlooking the Luvuvhu River or indoors under thatch..
• Each tented room is under a shaded canopy under canvas.

GAME VIEWING
The Makuleke Concession set within the Kruger National Park is one of the few true wilderness areas left in South Africa. Large herds of elephant and buffalo are resident most of the year round. There are resident prides of lion and the Luvuvhu riparian system supports a healthy population of leopard. Wild dog and Cheetah have been sighted hunting the strong population of Nyala and Impala that live alongside the Luvuvhu system on the southern boundary. On the eastern most boundary at "Crooks Corner" the Luvuvhu supports a large population of hippo and crocodile. The Makuleke Concession is probably one of the few places in the Kruger where you have a good chance of spotting Eland and Sharpe's Grysbok, and is regarded as probably the birding hotspot of South Africa with specialities such as Pel's Fishing Owl, Wattle-eyed Flycatcher, Goldenbacked Pytilia, Crowned Eagles and Racket-tailed rollers.