South Africa Safaris and Tours

Tau Game Lodge accommodates 60 guests in a subtle arc of 30 ethnically decorated, air-conditioned chalets overlooking a spectacular waterhole and surrounding mountains.

The cuisine is of outstanding quality and the lodge caters for sumptuous boma dinners and bush barbecues.

Madikwe is home to both black and white rhino, as well as buffalo, elephant, lion, leopard, cheetah and wild dog and a wide variety of other African animals and birds. Tau Game lodge is a superb top quality safari destination with well-trained and informative rangers who are able to explain and interpret the many encounters with wild animals and other creatures you will enjoy whilst on safari.

Tau, which is only three and a half-hours drive from Johannesburg, is the ideal conference venue with superb facilities and activities for corporate breakaways and team building. Tau is perfect for group and family safaris and offers guests the warmest of bushveld hospitality and service.

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About Madikwe Game Reserve

The establishment and development of the 60 000 ha Madikwe Game Reserve is, without doubt, the single biggest and most significant achievement of the North-West Parks Board.

The reserve was announced to the public in August 1991 and officially became part of the Board's estate.

Currently one of South Africa's largest game reserves, Madikwe has the distinction of being one of the few game reserves in the world to be proclaimed purely on the grounds of being the most appropriate and sustainable land use for an area.

The establishment and development of the 60 000 ha Madikwe Game Reserve is, without doubt, the single biggest and most significant achievement of the North-West Parks Board.

The reserve was announced to the public in August 1991 and officially became part of the Board's estate. Currently one of South Africa's largest game reserves, Madikwe has the distinction of being one of the few game reserves in the world to be proclaimed purely on the grounds of being the most appropriate and sustainable land use for an area The reserve consists of vast plains of open woodlands and grasslands, dissected by the rugged Rant van Tweedepoort, and bordered in the south by the Dwarsberg Mountains.

The area is dotted with huge rocky hills or inselbergs. The entire reserve has been enclosed in a 150 kilometres perimeter fence, which has been electrified to prevent the escape of elephants and the larger predators. A number of commercial safari companies operate within the reserve including Tau Game Lodge, Madikwe Game Lodge, Jaci's Safari Camp as well as a number of corporate or syndicated lodges. The reserve also has further commercial tenders open that should continue to develop the reserve.