Every day a professional game ranger will take you out on a game drive (this is included in the price).
Any other questions please don’t hesitate to ask.
Introduction:
Ngama Lodge is a special place where you can truly experience the wild beauty of nature by simply relaxing on the patio of your own private game lodge. Drive through the bush with your guests in your own game drive vehicle viewing wild animals and birds up close with no-one urging you to move on (Qualified Game Ranger Only). Spend time identifying the myriad of trees and grasses.
Land Size: The Lodge is constructed on a 1 hectare portion of land. This 1 ha forms part of the development that was incorporated into the Mabula Big 5 Game Reserve which in total more than 19 000 hectare in size.
Water: This Lodge is supplied with water from boreholes. The whole reserve has several waterholes where game comes to drink water.
Location: Nestled at the foot of the Waterberg Mountain near Bela Bela which is less than 2 hours drive from Johannesburg.
The Lodge: This immaculate Lodge reflects elegance and its African sophisticated architecture offers you extraordinary views of the African plains..... This lodge consists of the following:
- Four bedrooms with in-suite bathrooms and with outside showers to give you that “romantic experience”.
- Full kitchen with gas stove and pantry
- Large dining room
- Double volume entrance
- Large lounge
- Pool table
- Various viewing decks
- Under roof dining room/veranda
- Enclosed Boma
- Pool with pool decks
- A Storeroom
- 4 car ports
Ngama Lodge Infrastructure:
- More than 300km game drive roads.
- Fence line management roads.
- Privately manned and secured entrance gatehouse.
- Electricity to eight transformer sites.
- Electrified fences along the 47km perimeter of the reserve.
- Sixteen dams built.
- Provision of water to each site.
- 2000 head of over 50 species of game, 300 species of birds and over 50 species of trees, are to be found in the reserve.
- Mabula airstrip: 24°44'S 27°54'E; 4200ft;
- Runway: 32/14; 1300 metres and is a grass strip.
Fauna and Flora:
Ngama Lodge is located in a MALARIA FREE area in the heart of the Northern Bushveld Region - at the southern foothills of the Blue Waterberg Mountains - about 45 km west of the bushveld town of Warmbaths. The rainfall season is between October and April, with the highest rainfall being measured in December and January.
The vegetation is a mosaic of different plant communities each of which have their own unique grazing or browsing capacities for various kinds of game. The vegetation is a mosaic of different plant communities each of which have their own unique grazing or browsing capacities for various kinds of game.
The management of The Greater Mabula Game Reserve is done on a pro-active basis with much rehabilitation of flora, fauna and birds being undertaken: ground hornbill, redbilled oxpecker, vulture restaurant, serval cats, free roaming lion, elephant and sickle bush clearing.
More than 50 species of wild animals, 300 species of birds and more than 50 species of trees may be found on the reserve. Broadly speaking the reserve is divided into: open veld, tree savannah, mountain veld, open savannah, wet grasslands, mountainous rock and old fields.