Our experiences

A place of unparalleled adventure. We create bespoke experiences to suit our guests’ requirements - whether it’s a family with young children, a honeymooning couple or a work incentive trip. We can organise everything from the perfect accommodation to private transfers by air or land, adding experiences from an endless range. Choose from the rhino experience, horse riding, private game drives, picnics in the wilderness, and local village visits. 

The Rhino Experience

The ZuluWaters Rhino Experience offers you the opportunity to get close and personal with one of Africa’s most iconic big game animals – the White Rhino. More than just a game drive, this experience aims to familiarise you with these amazing animals, and our dedicated efforts to protect them. By joining us for this experience, your contribution will directly enable us to provide these animals with the 24- hour security surveillance and armed protection they require. A 3-hour guided game drive, interaction with anti-poaching personnel and a light wilderness picnic. This is a family-friendly safari experience.

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ZAR 850 p.p.

Wilderness Picnic

Our amazingly talented chef will prepare a wonderful picnic including local dishes. Enjoy our organic meat and plant-based food creations in an unforgettable picnic setting in the heart of our reserve. Pair this with a bottle of wine from our fantastic South African wine selection and you are guaranteed a once-in-a-lifetime wilderness experience.

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ZAR 500 p.p.

Local Community Experience

Head out for a morning visit  to our local community, including a visit to one of the nursery schools that we have been supporting since 2008. Here you will have the chance to interact with the children and share with them which part of the world you are from. This will be followed by a visit to a Sangoma where you can have your reading done through the throwing of the bones. The morning will end with a traditional home visit and meal. 

ZAR R750 p.p.

Traditional Zulu Experiences

Another community initiative brought to you by ZuluWaters - the Dancers are drawn from some of the most disadvantaged areas that surround the reserve. They are brought together to practice and perform a true Zulu Experience for our guests. This includes an evening of traditional song, dance and food under the African skies! This will give you a true taste of the Zulu Culture, prominent in the KwaZulu Natal region ( famous for its fearless leader King Shaka, whom the lodge is named after). Get to enjoy a truly purposeful unique and unforgettable evening. 

Safari Tennis

Where else can you play a game of tennis is the heart of a game reserve? Our tennis court blends in beautifully with the natural surroundings. Tennis equipment is available at Shaka Safari Lodge. 

Complimentary

Skeleton Safari Gym

For the gym fanatic, you can keep up your fitness regime in our unique rustic Skeleton Gym.

Complimentary

Guided Safari Drive

Enjoy a 2 hour guided safari drive in an open 4x4 safari vehicle. Our experienced and armed rangers will share their extensive knowledge about the wildlife and game reserve. You will get the chance to get up close with the near-threatened white rhino, herds of buffalo, beautiful zebra, impala, ostriches, and much more.  This is a family-friendly safari experience 

ZAR 500 p.p.

Private Guided Bush Walk

There’s nothing quite like experiencing the bush on foot with a local armed ranger. Here is the opportunity to see the smaller interesting elements in the bush that you would not see in a game drive vehicle.  Try your hand at animal tracking or let us take you back in history and show you ancient Bushman paintings and where the Zulus sharpened their spears before battle! Walks usually last from 2 to 3 hours.

ZAR 450 p.p.

Guided Horse Trail

Ride among an incredible array of game on a 2-hour horse trail through the ZuluWaters Reserve. You will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with zebra, rhino, buffalo and other ZuluWaters wildlife. 

ZAR R750 p.p.

Bushmans River Fly Fishing

ZuluWaters offers 15km of the Bushmans River frontage – famous for its trophy-sized Loch Levern wild brown trout, seeded in 1886, the oldest in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as rainbows and indigenous Natal Yellow. Fly Fishing is available (catch and release) with a ranger in Lake Murray or in the Bushman’s River. Full-day or half-day options are available. 

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ZAR R450 p.p. half-day | ZAR 900 p.p. full day

Clay Pigeon Shooting

Try your hand at clay pigeon shooting. Our experienced ranger will show and teach you how to master clay pigeon shooting.  

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Birding and Vulture Hide

Zulu Waters is a top birding destination with regular sightings of the rare and threatened bearded Vulture. Our spacious vulture hide offers birders and photographers an excellent opportunity to get close to these birds while they are feeding. The hide can accommodate 4 persons

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ZAR R500 p.p. half-day | ZAR 750 p.p. full day