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Gondwana Private Game Reserve Experience an authentic Cape safari at Gondwana Private Game Reserve! Encounter majestic wildlife & soak in the beauty of our Fynbos ecosystem.
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Explore 11,000 hectares of free-roaming Big 5 territory, where the Cape Floral Kingdom meets true wilderness. The award winning Reserve is ideally and accessibly located on South Africa’s popular Garden Route less than four-hour drive from Cape Town and 45 minutes from George domestic airport. World-class tourist facilities and attractions on Gondwana’s doorstep include championship golf courses at Pinnacle Point, Pezula, and Fancourt, great swimming and surfing beaches, wineries and the attractive coastal towns of Knysna and Plettenberg Bay. The Reserve is home to lion, elephant, buffalo, rhinoceros, giraffe, hippo, zebra, eland, sable, wildebeest, impala, springbok and waterbuck. Over 15 antelope species and 18 predator species are found on Gondwana. Indigenous Fynbos vegetation cloaks the undulating valleys, adding vivid colour and interest to a Big Five wilderness experience with awe inspiring views of the Langeberg Mountains wherever you look. Family itineraries include the Junior Ranger Programme which offers fun and educational activities in the Reserve with a dedicated Field Guide as well as a cool backpack and a custom activity booklet to complete during their stay.

Spring is slowly unfolding across the fynbos, part of the Cape Floral Kingdom, one of the smallest and richest floral re...
13/10/2026

Spring is slowly unfolding across the fynbos, part of the Cape Floral Kingdom, one of the smallest and richest floral regions on earth. Out on the reserve, it arrives in small, quiet details: a colour on a ridgeline, a flower you only notice when the vehicle slows down.

These are the blooms our guides have been finding over the last few weeks, from delicate ground orchids to brilliant bulbs, photographed raw and in the field, exactly as they were found. Swipe through slowly, and save this one for when you’re planning your own visit.

“Such a magical place and the staff are outstanding.” A five-star Google review from a recent guest, with rooms, service...
09/10/2026

“Such a magical place and the staff are outstanding.”
A five-star Google review from a recent guest, with rooms, service and location all scored five out of five. Thank you, we’ll pass it on to the team.

Planning a South Africa itinerary and wondering where Gondwana fits in? We're four hours from Cape Town by road, malaria...
03/10/2026

Planning a South Africa itinerary and wondering where Gondwana fits in? We're four hours from Cape Town by road, malaria free, and home to the free-roaming Big Five in a critically endangered fynbos landscape we have spent twenty years rewilding.

Swipe through what a stay looks like: expert field guides, two game drives a day, fynbos walks and e-bike safaris, the southernmost free-roaming elephants in the Western Cape, and a choice of two lodges or four private residences, whether you're a couple, a family or a group.

Save this for when you start planning, and share it with whoever you'd bring along.

Everywhere else, a cheetah is built for open savanna, for distance, for nothing standing between it and the horizon. At ...
28/09/2026

Everywhere else, a cheetah is built for open savanna, for distance, for nothing standing between it and the horizon. At Gondwana, ours learned something different: how to hunt through dense fynbos scrub, where speed alone was never going to carry them through.

But it's the quiet moments that tell the real story. In the heat of the day, our resident coalition, three brothers, aren't hunting at all. They're lying close together, grooming each other, playing the way only brothers do when there's nothing left to prove. That closeness is exactly what carries them through the rest of it: shared territory, shared kills, a bond most cheetahs never get to have. Male cheetahs who stay together like this survive longer and hold ground better than those who go it alone, and with fewer than 7,000 cheetahs left in the wild, that bond has become something close to essential.

Some lessons, the wild still teaches better than we do.

Ashia Cheetah Conservation
WWF South Africa
Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve
CapeNature

24/09/2026

A LIVING HERITAGE

What does it mean to protect our heritage?

For us, it means protecting more than the stories and traditions that shape us. It also means protecting the living landscapes, species and wild places that form part of the natural heritage of the Southern Cape.

Rhino are part of that heritage.

At Gondwana, more than 20 years of rewilding, habitat restoration and dedicated conservation work have helped restore this landscape and bring wildlife back.

But restoration is only part of the story. Protecting what has been restored is an ongoing responsibility.

Our Anti-Poaching Unit plays an important role in safeguarding Gondwana’s wildlife and protecting the conservation progress built over two decades.

And then there are moments like this: two young rhino playing, exploring and growing up in a landscape where they belong.

They are a reminder that conservation is ultimately about creating a future where wildlife has the space and security to simply be wild.

A heritage worth protecting.
A future worth leaving wild.

Happy Heritage Day.

A PLACE TO BREEDSeptember is one of the peak egg-laying periods for the Black Harrier, one of Southern Africa’s rarest e...
20/09/2026

A PLACE TO BREED

September is one of the peak egg-laying periods for the Black Harrier, one of Southern Africa’s rarest endemic raptors.

At Gondwana, protected fynbos provides important breeding habitat for this elusive species, with breeding pairs recorded across the reserve.

For more than 20 years, Gondwana has been rewilding a landscape once shaped by livestock farming, restoring habitat and bringing important species back to the Southern Cape.

Because rewilding is about more than bringing wildlife back.

It is about restoring a functioning landscape where species can breed, survive and remain part of it.

For the Black Harrier, Gondwana is more than habitat.

It is breeding ground.

THE STORIES THAT LINGERWe love sharing Gondwana with our guests and creating the kind of experiences that stay with you ...
15/09/2026

THE STORIES THAT LINGER
We love sharing Gondwana with our guests and creating the kind of experiences that stay with you long after you leave.
Because the greatest gift is knowing that a few days in this landscape can become memories you carry in your heart for years to come.

Ulubisi House is built around privacy: your own private villa, surrounded by mountain views, privately staffed with a de...
09/09/2026

Ulubisi House is built around privacy: your own private villa, surrounded by mountain views, privately staffed with a dedicated chef and field guide, and a schedule that runs entirely to your own itinerary.

It sits inside the reserve's protected walking area, where bontebok, giraffe, and other antelope roam nearby, without ever needing to share the space with other guests.

It's the perfect getaway for a family or group, luxurious and tailored entirely to what you need.

04/09/2026

Some evenings give you more than a sunset. On a recent game drive, one of our guests, a professional singer, broke into "Stay With Me" as the light went down over the fynbos. Nobody asked her to. Nobody expected it. It just happened, out on the vehicle, with the whole reserve going quiet around her, captured exactly as it was on someone's phone, raw and completely unedited.

Some of the best moments here were never on the itinerary.

As August comes to a close, here's a look back at the month through our lens: golden sunsets, giraffe moving through the...
31/08/2026

As August comes to a close, here's a look back at the month through our lens: golden sunsets, giraffe moving through the fynbos, a lion at rest, zebra grazing in the last light, the first blooms of spring, and a landscape that's visibly waking up.

This is what a season of renewal actually looks like, not one dramatic before-and-after, but small, specific moments adding up across the whole month.

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