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Lion at Plett Game Reserve

Winter Wildlife Wonder on the Garden Route

Life is crazy busy. Deadlines, parenting, juggling time and relationships successfully, etc. If you don’t make time to reconnect with family and friends, and for that matter, with yourself, then how will you keep your sanity? Plettenberg Bay Game Reserve is the perfect getaway for those who yearn to reconnect[…]

A Perfect Plett Day

For many South Africans and visitors to South Africa, the eternal debate is whether to plan a beach holiday or a bush holiday… Our beautiful country has so much to offer: beautiful beaches, dramatic coastlines and the wide open plains of our national parks and game reserves. If you’re having[…]

Romantic getaway at Plett Game Reserve’s The Baroness

One of the best things about the Southern and Eastern Cape is that, if you can’t decide whether you want a safari holiday or a beach holiday, you don’t have to decide. On the Garden Route, you can have your cake, and eat it too! We’re fortunate to be able[…]

Plett Game Reserve hosts Dr Evil Classic

Plettenberg Bay Game Reserve is very proud to announce that we will be hosting the first day of the famous MTB stage race: Dr Evil Classic. On the 20th September, riders will visit Plett Game Reserve for registration and for the first day of this three-day stage race. The route[…]

5 reasons to bring the family to Plett Game Reserve

As far as fun family activities go, a visit to Plett Game Reserve should be high up on your list. Here are five reasons to bring the family to Plett Game Reserve, today Horse Safari at Plett Game Reserve If your family has some horseback-riding experience, then a Horse Safari[…]

Gentle giants at Plett Game Reserve

There are is no other word to describe a giraffe but graceful. Impossibly, unimaginably graceful. When you spot that dusty head amongst the trees, nibbling on a tree and loping amongst the bush, what a thrill – the world’s tallest living terrestrial animal. But then the giraffe steps out onto[…]

5 reasons to visit Plett Game Reserve

The Big Five Plettenberg Bay Game Reserve is proud to be a Garden Route home of the African Big Five. Lion, leopard, rhino, elephant and buffalo. As Plett Game Reserve is 2000 hectares and comparatively smaller than larger reserves like the Addo and Kruger National Parks, our predators are kept[…]

A parade of elephants

There is something truly mesmerizing about a herd of elephants marching single file through the bush. Odette Kruger managed to capture this unbelievable footage of Harry’s Herd at Plett Game Reserve, parading along at sunset, making for a gorgeous silhouette of their gracious progress. Enjoy!  

Horse Safari at Plett Game Reserve

NOTE: Horseback safaris are no longer offered at Plett Game Reserve Horse safaris are a very popular offering from Plett Game Reserve. South African and international visitors are enthralled by the idea of stepping back in time to an era of horse transport and abundant wildlife in the Garden Route.[…]

History of the Baroness Lodge

Baroness Game Lodge, the charming safari lodge at Plett Game Reserve, has a very interesting and significant history as the residence of Baron Joachim von Plettenberg. Yes – that Plettenberg, the man for whom the town of Plettenberg Bay is named! Baron von Plettenberg was the governor of the Cape[…]