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Karongwe Game Reserve |
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Karongwe
is a beautiful game reserve situated in 9000 hectares
of wilderness. The Karongwe River runs through and
it is framed with the backdrop of the Drakensberg
mountain range.
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| Karongwe is swathed
in beautiful vegetation from trees to grassland
and shrubs and flowers. It provides suitable habitats
for all the major game species, birds, reptiles
and insects. It has many small rocky outcrops
that provide good look-out points, sun-downer
spots and they also add to the area's beauty. |
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| In the wet season
it has many small dams that fill up and come to
life with wild lilies, flowers, and attracting birds,
mammals, crocodiles and hippos. |
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Wildlife |
| All of the major game is found here except for free roaming Buffalo that are kept in the south of the park as part of a disease free breeding project. You might get to see elephant, rhino, lion, leopard, cheetah, spotted and brown hyena, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, kudu, bushbuck, steenbok, duiker, impala, waterbuck, blackbacked and sidestriped jackal, honey badger, baboon, vervet monkey, mongoose, warthog, bushpig, tortoise; special nocturnal creatures – porcupine, aardvark, civet, genet, caracal, serval, spring hare; water species – hippo, crocodile, otter, terrapins. Lots of bird species are also seen, especially at the big dams and along the rivers. |
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Accommodation |
Karongwe Camp is
situated on the banks of the Karongwe River; accommodation
is in walk-in safari style tents with shared bathroom
facilities.
The camp is open, not fenced and wildlife if free
to roam.
Hyena tend to make nightly patrols of the camp and are often seen by students who choose to make one of the viewing decks their home for the duration of the course. Elephant, cheetah and lion have also made appearances on occasion. |
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