Tour Overview

1 Day Pilanesberg Safari – This amazing Pilanesberg tour Day Tour starts and ends in Johannesburg or Pretoria and takes you on an exciting Big 5 African tour.

Tour Highlights

1 Day Pilanesberg Safari

Our driver will pick you up from your hotel in the morning (between 5:30 and 7:00) in Johannesburg or downtown Pretoria to begin this full-day Pilanesberg Safari.

It takes about two to three hours to drive to Pilanesberg, based on where you’re picked up and how busy the roads are. As we drive through beautiful scenery to the North West Province of South Africa, we stop for drinks and a quick breakfast, which you will have to pay for.

As soon as we get to Pilanesberg National Park, the game-viewing trip begins. We took a morning game drive in an open-sided 4×4 safari car into the game reserve. The drive took two to three hours. Our experienced guide takes us to see the “Big 5” of Africa: the lion, the rhinoceros, the elephant, the buffalo, and the leopard. We also see many other animals and birds that live in Pilanesberg. As we walk around, our guide tells us a lot about the animals we see and is happy to answer any questions we have.

We stop at the Pilanesberg Center near Mankwe Dam for lunch because it’s so hot out. It’s a great place to eat lunch and take in the view of the open fields and hills. Keep an eye out because wildebeest, zebra, and other animals often graze right next to the big deck where you can watch the game. After having lunch and getting some fresh air, we get back into the bush in our 4×4 with no sides. We take an exciting afternoon game drive through this Big 5 game reserve for another two and a half hours. Around 1600, we go back to the park gate and get on our air-conditioned transfer car for the trip back to the city.

From Pilanesberg, the driver will take you back to your hotel in central Johannesburg or Pretoria. We expect to get there between 1800 and 1830. Our day trip to Pilanesberg for the Big 5 is now over.

How to get to Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa

This game park covers about 55,000 hectares, which is about 135908 acres. It is the fourth biggest in South Africa. There are a lot of great places to see the Big 5 near Johannesburg, and this is one of the easiest park to get to in the whole country.

The Bojanala Region in the North West Province is home to Pilanesberg National Park, which is in a transitional plant zone. Both the dry Kalahari Desert and the wet Lowveld biomes meet here. This place is home to many different kinds of animals, plants, and birds, including many that don’t usually live together. Almost all of Southern Africa’s animal species can be found in Pilanesberg. This includes rare and threatened species like African wild dogs and roan, sable, and tsessebe antelopes. The elephant, the rhino, the lion, the buffalo, and the rare leopard are all found in Pilanesberg. There are also hyenas, hippos, crocodiles, jackals, wild cats, and different kinds of antelope in the game area. The Pilanesberg game area is home to more than 360 different kinds of birds.

Pilanesberg National Park is not actually a national park in South Africa (SANParks). Instead, it is a local park that is run by the North West Parks Board. The game area is in a crater that was made by a volcano erupting a very long time ago. Geologically interesting, the volcano that is no longer active is surrounded by beautiful scenery.

Pilanesberg Day Tour: How to Get There

On this day safari, you will go on game drives in open-air 4×4 safari cars in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve.

On this day trip, transfers are made in a minibus with air conditioning (Quantum). In other words, these enclosed tour vehicles pick you up and drop you off at your hotel at the beginning and end of the day trip.

We will pick you up from your hotel in downtown Johannesburg or Pretoria between 5:30 and 7:00 in the morning.
Between 8:00 and 18:30, we’ll drop you off at your hotel in downtown Johannesburg or Pretoria.
Note for travelers: If you have a flight leaving in the evening after this Pilanesberg Day Safari, please make sure you book it with extra time in case of delays. We suggest that you book domestic flights from OR Tambo foreign Airport that don’t leave before 19:30 and foreign flights that don’t leave before 21:00.

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Getting There

The trip will start from Nairobi, Kenya and End in Seychelles . Therefore book flights landing in Nairobi on day one and departing from Seychelles on day 9.

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