Tswalu Kalahari

Tswalu Kalahari Safari Trips & Tours

Tswalu Kalahari

Let's help you plan

Joanna - Travel Consultant
Johnny - Travel Consultant
Eve - Travel Consultant
HeartHeartHeartHeartHeart

4.9/5 (911 reviews)

Travel and Leisure Worlds Best Awards for number 1 tour operator in the world 2024 and number 2 tour operator in the world 2025
We're one of the World's Best Tour Operators!
Voted No.1 in 2024 and No.2 in 2025 by Travel+Leisure

Tswalu Kalahari Safari Trips & Tours

A private game reserve and exclusive desert wilderness with superb activities and wildlife to boot.
In the dry semi-arid heart of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa is the vast Tswalu Kalahari, the largest, privately-owned reserve in the country, with the lowest number of guests for its size (100 000 ha). The reserve is a place of incredible wildlife rarities, known for its desert black rhino, habituated meerkat, cheetah, sable antelope and rare aardvark and pangolin. If you are lucky, you might see one of the Kalahari's famous black-maned lions—their dark manes swaying through the endless grasslands. Enjoy full day drives from the lodge to cover as much ground as possible, night drives or walking safaris, and immerse yourself in the ancient bushman culture of the area.
Things to do

What to do in Tswalu Kalahari

Set out with your private guide and tracker across South Africa's largest private reserve, where rolling red dunes meet up with the dramatic Korannaberg mountains. The cleverly divided reserve offers two distinct experiences - one side home to cheetahs and wild dogs, the other to black-maned Kalahari lions. Track elusive creatures like pangolin, aardwolf and bat-eared fox on game drives, or stretch your legs on guided walks through the ancient landscape. Meet the resident meerkat colony, who've grown quite accustomed to curious visitors, or explore on horseback for a different perspective. This vast wilderness houses over 80 mammal species, from desert-adapted black rhinos to iconic Kalahari antelope like oryx and sable, each perfectly suited to the dramatic 'feast or famine' conditions of this remarkable ecosystem.

Open Map
Static map
Best time to visit

When to go on a Tswalu Kalahari Trip

Excellent
Good
Mixed
Articles

South Africa in the blog

Reviews

HeartHeartHeartHeartHeart

Based on 333 Feefo Reviews for South Africa

Why travel with Timbuktu?

We design tailor-made journeys for travellers who want more than a holiday, from first-time safaris, gorilla treks and multi-generational family adventures to once-in-a-lifetime honeymoons - and everything in between. And here's why so many choose us to plan them.

Tailor-Made Since 2014

Tailor-Made Since 2014

We've been crafting one-of-a-kind journeys since 2014 — over 2,500 trips across 40+ countries, each one built from scratch around your interests and dreams.

Specialists Who've Been There

Specialists Who've Been There

Our team only recommends places they've slept in, eaten in, and happily keep going back to. Condé Nast Traveler named 11 of them Top Travel Specialists in 2026, and Travel+Leisure made three A-List Advisors.

The World's No 1 Tour Operator

The World's No 1 Tour Operator

Travel+Leisure's readers voted us the World's No.1 Tour Operator in 2024 and No.2 in 2025 — the travel industry's biggest readers' award, judged by people who actually travel.

Every Trip Makes A Difference

Every Trip Makes A Difference

$50 from every booking goes to female empowerment, tech education, and conservation projects across the countries we love. We have donated $78,000 so far – and it's going up!

Collaboration Is Key

Collaboration Is Key

Your travel specialist is with you the whole way, dreaming up the trip, building the itinerary, checking you in, and answering the 2am question from the other side of the world..

Loved By Our Guests

Loved By Our Guests

We are rated 4.9 out of 5 from 911 verified Feefo reviews. And these are the words of people who actually went, not us talking about ourselves.

As Seen in

11 Condé Nast Traveler Top Travel Specialists 2026

Condé Nast Traveler

No. 1 & No. 2 Tour Operator in Travel + Leisure's Best Awards 2024 & 2025

Travel + Leisure

Best Booking Platform in Women's Health Travel Awards 2025

Women's Health magazine

Travel Specialist voted as Latin America A-List Travel Advisor 2025

Condé Nast Traveler A-List Awards

"Timbuktu can take relatively complex and slightly amorphous travel plans and transform them into a well-organized, perfectly tailored trip."

Forbes magazine
AFAR magazine
The Daily Telegraph newspaper
Vogue magazine
Glamour magazine
BBC
Oprah Magazine
Natural Geographic