Majete Wildlife Reserve Safari Trips & Tours

The country’s first Big Five reserve is beautiful, rugged and a real conservation success story.

If you were to find yourself in what is now Majete Wildlife Reserve in 2002, you wouldn’t have found very much: desolate landscapes, plenty of poachers and certainly not a sniff of an animal. Then, in 2003, along came the magnificent non-profit organisation African Parks, which has introduced more than 2500 animals to the rugged wilderness. In 2012, the reserve became the first in Malawi to house all members of the Big Five. Today, alongside elephant, buffalo and big cats, you’ll find sable, eland, zebra and hippo, enthusiastic guides with the biggest smiles on the continent, and a swanky new camp to complete the experience.

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Majete Wildlife Reserve Safari Trips & Tours

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From poached-out wilderness to poster child for African conservation, this remarkable reserve showcases the power of protection done right. Lions now stalk through jesse bush where silence once reigned, while elephants splash in the Shire River's cooling waters. Rare species like Lichtenstein's hartebeest share the sanctuary with newly returned wild dogs and cheetahs, creating a wildlife spectacle that seemed impossible just decades ago. Whether tracking game on foot or watching Boehm's bee-eaters dart through the air, each encounter here feels like witnessing a small miracle in Malawi's conservation renaissance.

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