Safari Experiences
Plan your dream luxury safari
Mateya Safari Lodge offers unforgettable African safari experiences for those seeking a truly exceptional escape. For travellers looking for a luxury safari in South Africa, our game lodge provides the perfect setting for a refined and immersive South African safari vacation.
At Mateya, guests can enjoy an all-inclusive South African safari holiday, where every detail is taken care of to ensure a seamless and relaxing safari trip to Africa. With its intimate and private setting, the lodge offers complete flexibility, allowing you to tailor your luxury safari holiday to your preferences.
Whether you are exploring the bush or unwinding at the lodge, our safari in Madikwe offers a range of memorable safari activities:
Safari Game Drives
If you’re searching for South African luxury lodges with game drives, Mateya Safari Lodge is an exceptional choice. Guests can enjoy guided game drives in South Africa, led by expert guides, with morning, afternoon, and evening options offering varied wildlife encounters. These safari game drives are reserved solely for lodge guests, with no outside visitors or day access.
What sets Mateya’s game drives apart in Madikwe is the use of smaller, more intimate vehicles, with just four guests per vehicle. This creates a more personal and immersive private game drive, allowing for better positioning, quieter sightings, and more interaction with your guide. It’s the ideal setting for a focused and rewarding Big Five game drive.
Guided Walking Safaris
Mateya Safari Lodge also offers immersive safari walks, giving guests the opportunity to experience the bush from a completely different perspective. These guided bush walks are led by highly trained and qualified walking guides, ensuring both safety and insight throughout the experience.
A luxury walking safari in South Africa allows you to slow down and connect with nature on a deeper level, noticing the smaller details often missed on game drives. With a walking or hiking safari, you experience the bush in an entirely new way, moving quietly on foot to discover wildlife, tracks, and hidden corners of the landscape.
Guided Birdwatching Safaris
Guests at Mateya Safari Lodge can enjoy guided bird watching as part of their safari experience. While all our game drives include opportunities to spot a variety of species, avid birders can enjoy a bird watching safari designed specifically around their interests.
Our expert guides will ensure you don’t miss any of the region’s unique species, offering an immersive and educational wild bird watching experience in the heart of the Madikwe Game Reserve.
Wildlife Photography Safaris
All our guides at Mateya have general photography knowledge and are happy to assist guests with capturing memorable moments during game drives. For those who are specifically interested in photography and wanting to embark on a photographic safari in South Africa, we can arrange a tailored experience.
This dedicated photo safari will be led by a guide with years of wildlife photography expertise. Each sighting becomes an opportunity to capture stunning images, making it a fully captivating photography safari in Africa.
Other Safari Experiences at Mateya
Beyond game viewing, Mateya Safari Lodge features a range of other refined safari activities and experiences to enjoy during your time at the lodge. Guests can indulge in exceptional dining, from elegant indoor meals to atmospheric dinners under the stars.
The on-site wellness centre provides the perfect space to relax and unwind with a selection of rejuvenating spa treatments. For those with an appreciation for culture, the lodge also showcases an impressive collection of African art, adding an enriching dimension to your luxury safari holiday in South Africa.
EXPLORE THE LODGE
The Suites
Five individually designed luxury air-conditioned thatched suites. Each suite blends with its natural surroundings and offers uninterrupted views of the waterhole and plains. Guests can enjoy a balance of sophistication and comfort, in total privacy and harmony with nature, savouring the rare pleasure of their very own secluded slice of Africa.
The Lounge & Library
An unique fusion of diverse African heritage is drawn together with the utmost finesse and style. Guests with a thirst for an unsurpassed blend of beauty, discerning taste and cultural delights can relax and indulge in inspiration drawn from every corner of the continent.
Our Wellness Centre
To bring home the renewing ambience of Mateya Safari Lodge and the majesty of the setting, guests can be treated to a full range of pleasurable and rejuvenating body treatments by a dedicated health therapist. Give way to the energetic call of the wilderness by making use of our personalized gym. Feel the freedom to take a healthy breath of Mateya Safari Lodge magic, restoring your mind, body and soul.
Wine & Dine
For a wild culinary experience, submerge yourself in the glory of the African night skies as you dine beneath the clear glow of a galaxy of stars while the roar of an open-air fire core ensures your comfort. Mateya Safari Lodge will invite you to a royal feast and a demonstration of expert culinary skills.
Boardroom & Curio
When business calls guests have the facility to host meetings in the unique Mateya Safari Lodge Bush Boardroom. Our curio shop is full of delightful items created by skilled craftsmen. Many of the items are hand crafted by the very same artisans whose works adorn the lodge.
Art Gallery
Exhibiting a range of techniques, from majestic oils to life-size bronze sculptures, each piece in the Mateya collection has been individually selected for its unique and enduring appeal.