At
nearly 40 000 acres (16 000 hectares), MalaMala Game Reserve
is by far the largest piece of land within the Sabi Sand Game
Reserve - the oldest conservancy of private game reserves
in South Africa. Situated in the fabled Lowveld of Mpumalanga
Province, MalaMala Game Reserve became the first of the tracts
of privately owned game land to make the transition from hunting
to photographic safaris.
But
it is not just the sheer size of land that makes MalaMala
so impressive. The 20 miles (32 kilometres) of open boundary,
which MalaMala shares with the Kruger National Park, provides
unimpeded access to animals from this world famous wildlife
sanctuary. This essentially places MalaMala as part of a soon-to-be
12 or more million acres of pristine wilderness conservation
area. Of constant appeal to the wildlife from the Kruger National
Park is the vast array of habitat types within MalaMala -
ranging from open savannahs to dense riparian zones and granite
koppies. Perhaps the greatest attraction of all is the perennial
Sand River – of which, approximately 36 kilometers soaks
its way through MalaMala Game Reserve. The diversity of these
habitats is the key factor behind the incredible complexity
of fauna and flora for which MalaMala has become so famous,
and is proven statistically by our game viewing – where
it has become the exception rather than the rule for all members
of the “Big 5” not to be seen on a single day
on the property.
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