The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is one of the world's great wildernesses — and Loch Maree is the last comfortable bed before it. 90 km. One flask of coffee. First light in the riverbeds.
Game viewing in the Kgalagadi belongs to first light — that's when the predators are moving in the cool of the Nossob and Auob riverbeds. Staying at Loch Maree means you can be at the Twee Rivieren gate as it opens, while day-trippers from Upington are still two hours down the road.
Come back in the late afternoon to a fire already crackling, a hot shower and a proper bed — then do it again tomorrow. Most of our guests plan two or three park days around exactly this rhythm.
Two conservation areas — the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa and the Gemsbok National Park in Botswana — joined into one borderless wilderness of red sand dunes, camelthorn and dry riverbeds.
Blue wildebeest, springbok, eland and red hartebeest in their thousands — with the black-maned Kalahari lions, cheetah and leopard that follow them. This is wildlife watching stripped back to sand, sky and patience.
The flask is filled, the padkos is packed, the dunes are still purple.
First light in the Auob riverbed — cats on the move, raptors on the camelthorns.
Watch the springbok queue while you eat. Nowhere to be. Nothing to check.
Sundowner on our own dune if you time it right — then the braai, then the stars.
Tell us your park dates and we'll have the camp, the fire and the early coffee waiting.
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