PHINDA FOREST SAFARI LODGE
KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa

Introduction

Phinda Forest Lodge is situated in the heart of a rare and beautiful dry sand forest in Phinda Private Game Reserve. This award-winning safari lodge, built in a Zulu Zen style, offers luxury accommodation, privacy and spectacular views in a game rich area.

Lodge Description

Phinda Forest Safari Lodge consists of 16 spacious, hand-built glass and wood suites. Not one tree was cut down during construction. The lodge has a light footprint and offers air-conditioning, private viewing decks, luxurious en-suite bathrooms, a rim-flow swimming pool as well as a crafts gallery with a range of local Zulu artefacts. Guests can dine in the traditional African boma, under a romantic canvas of stars, candles and lanterns.

Game Viewing

Phinda Private Game Reserve offers an incredible diversity of game. Predators like cheetah, leopard and lion are tracked on a daily basis and guests stand a good chance of seeing them. The territorial white rhino favour waterholes and wallows. Herds of elephant and buffalo move throughout the reserve and are easily spotted. Impressive nyala antelope feed alongside impala and warthog. Nocturnal aardvark, bushpig and greater bushbaby may be encountered on night game-drives. Mountain reedbuck resides on rocky slopes, while common reedbuck favours palmveld and wetlands. Tonga red squirrels are restricted to Sand Forest where tiny suni and red duiker are most abundant. The extraordinary four-toed elephant-shrew forages among leaf-litter in forest and thickets. The bird life is prolific and an impressive 378 species have recorded in the area. Rudds apalis, Neergaards sunbird and pink-throated twinspot are endemic to the Maputaland region. Lemon-breasted canary, southern banded snake-eagle and grey waxbill are characteristic of the coastal plain. Among resident birds in the Sand Forest are Narina trogon, African broadbill and square-tailed drongo. Trumpeter hornbill, white-eared barbet and golden-rumped tinkerbird gather at ripe figs. Crested guineafowl, purple-crested turaco and gorgeous bushshrike are among species which favour woodland and thickets. African finfoot, African purple swamphen (gallinule), white-backed night-heron and malachite kingfisher are resident on the Mzinene River. Mocking cliff-chat, red-winged starling and cinnamon-breasted bunting favour rocky outcrops. Great concentrations of waterfowl assemble seasonally at the Nibela Peninsula of nearby Lake St Lucia.

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