Win a weekend for two at Umkhumbi Lodge! Your prize includes dinner, bed and breakfast, a half day game drive in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve and a 2.5 hour guided kayak on the St Lucia Estuary.
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Sunday Tribune Competition at Umkhumbi Lodge
Category: Activities, Hluhluwe Accommodation, Hluhluwe-Imfolozi, In the News, KwaZulu Natal, KZN, Special Offers /
New student Catalogue
Our Environmental Awareness Course with Mid Kent College is now featured in an educational catalogue!
February Facebook Gallery
A round up of all the fantastic pictures that have made it onto the facebook page of our lodge in South Africa.
The year so far: In Pictures
Every day we put a new photo on our Facebook page, we’ve put a selection of them here!
Family Special at Umkhumbi Lodge!
When you are little, even the little things are big!
Family holidays are special but don’t have to cost the Earth!
In our spacious Umkhumbi two room family units you can stay for less than ever before!
Kids 11 yrs and under FREE (1 child per adult)
Young adults: 12 yrs to 16 yrs stay half price!
Our family units book up quickly! So before you miss the chance to stay in the bush in one of our ensuite (one bathroom for you and one for the kids!) free standing and private family units enquire now – you’ll be pleasantly surprised!
Offer ends 2014 – only 351 days left!!
New Family Memories! A Holiday with a Difference!
Our NEW family holidays are available with 2by2holidays.
Dad wants action, mum wants beach, the kids want something new and there is always one who doesn’t think they want to go on Safari…
Problem?
Not at all!
There is something for everyone on our family Environmental Awareness holiday.
Relax at the soft, clean sandy beach of Kosi Bay – with *amazing* snorkelling and the nice calm, warm waters of the estuary to paddle in (so, whether your children are 4 or 14 there are no tides to worry about!)
Spend an afternoon cruising with the Hippos and Crocs in St Lucia and then visit the croc centre to learn more about the ‘dinosaurs’ of the St Lucia Estuary. For more adventure, family members over 12 years can Kayak on the St Lucia Estuary and see the hippos and crocs at eye-level!
We even cater for the hands-on animal lovers! Stroke a cheetah, cuddle it, or, feed an elephant and even touch its tongue!! Learn about these fascinating creatures, see how they jump and run and learn how they think!
Meet our scaley snake friends and get to hold fluffy the Red-tailed Boa! She is over 2.5m in length now and loves cuddles – don’t worry she is non-venomous, in fact, boas don’t even have fangs!
But there is much much more to do in KZN and Umkhumbi Lodge is perfectly based to see and do as many different things as possible!
For example, I haven’t even mentioned one of the oldest game reserves in South Africa, which is just a 40 minutes drive from us, the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve.
Big 5 safari at Hluhlwe-Imfolozi and a little safari with us as we take you on a night walk through our bush in search of scorpions, spiders, chameleons and bush babies. There are usually lots of glow worms too, to get small imaginations running… so keep your eyes peeled for the ‘fairies’!
The End :(
There were a lot of tears last night and then again today at the airport. Cries of “I don’t want to leave”, “let me stay and play with the cheetah again!” and “when can I come back” are still ringing in my ears as I write this!
Well, of course you can come back, just contact Tony about volunteering to help with the group next year or if you’d rather, bring your family and do a very similar trip that Anton can set up for you!
Category: African Safari, Albizia camp, DofE2012, Duke of Edinburgh Award, Gold 2012, KwaZulu Natal, KZN, Wetland Park Group /
Day 4 and 5 – Wilderness Trail
Day 5 – Wilderness Trail
Got up quite early and got ready for the over night wilderness trail. Not going to lie, sounded pretty scary, walking through the bush and then camping over night outside with people taking shifts to keep watch, but it was so cool!!!!! So the walk to the camp was quite long… we got a few breaks and a nice long lunch break (while Lottie went to the loo about 5 times!) but our guide, Joe, walked at quite a pace and seemed to have constant energy! But we got to camp early, and saw some hippos in the water near our camp, which was amazing! There were about 5 of them just there, staring at us. It was cool until we realized that we would be camping next to them and they could walk through our camp if they wanted, as could crocs, as could hyenas, as could ANY animal that wanted to, hence the night watch! Without even a sit down, we went straight into Croemalena clearing, which is an alien crop that kills some of the animals if they eat it. We were shown how to use the machetes and then we got to it. Anneka and me enjoyed it slightly too much I think! We proper went for it and got LOADS cleared away! We were pretty happy with it! Then we were finished for the day, I was really hot disgusting from the walk and the clearing… I hadn’t planned to shower, so I didn’t bring a towel or anything, but I went for an open air shower! It was AMAZINGG!!! Lots of hot water and a nice fire outside to keep my clothes warm. So good! Then we sat around the camp fire for a bit while it got dark and then…. it was BBQ time!!!! We had Nyala steaks, Wildebeest sausages, potato salad, beetroot salad and really yummy bread – an AWSOME bbq!! The we toasted marshmallows on the fire, which I’ve never done before! Smelt and tasted soooo good! Then people started going to bed and the night watch started for the first group. Nothing much came through the camp, but our night log became quite inventive, with a family of hippos scaring Beth near the toilet and me, Glyn and Alicia fighting off an alien invasion. The whole thing was a great experience. When else are we going to get the chance to sleep outside in the African bush?!!
Becky
Category: African Safari, DofE2012, Duke of Edinburgh Award, Environmental Awareness Course, Gold 2012, Wetland Park Group /
Tags: adventure, african safari, african wildlife, animal holiday, bush holiday, campfire, camping, curriculum based holiday, DofE2012, educational holiday, Elephant, family holiday, fire watch, memories, nightwatch, safari, sleep under the stars, south africa, student trip, walking safari, wilderness trail, wildlife conservation
Here come the bushbabies!
Whilst the bushbabies love to hang out in our sandforest here in Hluhluwe, they tend to run off at the sight of humans.
But now winter is coming and they have suddenly got very confident…
Be prepared for regular updates from these cheeky little monkeys!!
Category: African Safari, Bushwire, Our animals /
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