Singita Private Game Reserve

Singita Private Game Reserve is the winner of the Worlds No.1 destination Conde Nast Traveler (USA) - 2001/2002/2004 award, No.1 International Resort 2001 and 2002 (with less than 50 rooms)Travel and Leisure Magazine 'World's Best Service Awards' 2005 - Overall Winner

Harpers Hideaway Report Tatler 101 Best Hotels Of The Year Award,Best Hotel in the World Conde Nast Traveler (UK) 2004, to name but a few.

Singita comprises 5 luxury safari lodges in 2 South African game reserves.

Singita Private Game Reserve is situated in the heart of the world-renowned Sabi Sands, a vast expanse of pristine wild Africa that thunders to the sound of the migrating herds.

Open landrovers ensure that you get the best possible photographic opportunities. Off-road driving means that you can follow and track animals as they go into the thicker bush, and unlike other areas you are not restricted to viewing animals from the confines of a road. Night drives are a fabulous way to Reservations nocturnal animals such as the cats.

Singita Private Game Reserve consists of: Ebony Lodge, Boulders Lodge, Lebombo Lodge, Sweni Lodge and Castleton Lodge.

Ebony Lodge languishes in a cool silence in the shade of jackalberry trees on the bank of the Sand River, in the heart of the Sabi Sands Reserve. Ebony Lodge is man's love affair with Africa, timeworn colonial furniture and ethnic craft merge with vibrant hand-woven fabrics and relics collected from the land - a tribute to nature's eternal struggle.

The suites at Singita Ebony are places of quiet contemplation, where the silence and solitude is measured only by the harmony of the forest and plains beyond. Ebony Lodge is the epitome of the luxury safari experience, combining quality and simple refinement to define the wonder of the wild.

Boulders Lodge towers over the landscape, a monolith of curving thatch and piled stone that joins seamlessly with the rocky geometry that holds it to the earth. Senufo artifacts and bold sculpture offset smooth linen in blue and silent white, as cascading water cools the summer air. Boulders Lodge rests on the banks of the Sand River in the heart of the Singita Private Game Reserve, unlocking the senses to views that stretch to the edges of the imagination.

Singita Boulders' suites feature magnificent stone bathrooms and bedrooms that encapsulate in luxury. Quiet, simple and luxurious, moments spent on the vast sundecks at Boulders Lodge will leave you at the mercy of the breathtaking wild distance.

Poised over one of Africa's most dramatic landscapes in the Kruger National Park's glorious south-east, Lebombo Lodge is set against a country that is abundant in water, antelope and big cats, with colours that shift with the changing seasons. Lebombo Lodge was created as a transient witness to the land, constructed of steel, glass and wood in reverence to the African expanse before it.

Walkways snake their way along a ridge dotted with surreal euphoria that praise the sky, at Singita Lebombo the lofts clasp like eagles' nests to the mountainside. Sparsely adorned spaces created of wall-to-wall glass; Lebombo Lodge's suites are places of interaction with a wilderness that echoes to the soul.

Singita Sweni Lodge

In the dappled shade low on the banks of the Sweni River, Sweni Lodge shares the quiet spaces and secrets of an African waterway. Like Lebombo, Sweni Lodge stands only in temporary appreciation of this magnificent place. With a style that is distinctly African, Singita Sweni unites earthenware pots and ethnic artworks with contemporary pieces, against a dark palette lifted with flashes of lime, avocado and kiwi.

Built on stilts with decks of dark timber, Sweni Lodge is the smallest and most taciturn of the Singita lodges, with six supremely luxurious hides tucked away among the trees.

Castleton Camp lies between the Sabi and Sand Rivers, against the eastern boundary of the Kruger National Park, in the Sabi Sands Reserve. The Baille's family acquired the Ravenscourt and Castleton farms in 1927, and little has changed over the course of almost a century.

The natural, understated luxury of the farmhouse and six cottages is permeated by warmth, comfort and contentment. The broad, polished verandas overlook a vast waterhole, where herds of antelope and wildebeest pause to rest in the course of their endless migration.