18 January 2012 - MalaMala Game Reserve:

The MalaMala Camps will be closed for a 7 day period (subject to change) in light of the devastating flooding in the Sabi Sand region.
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"Not even Tanzania's famed Serengeti Game Reserve or the awesome Ngorongoro Crater fills your camera viewfinder faster with Africa's legendary Big Five - at MalaMala, lion, leopard, buffalo, rhinoceros and elephant appear magically," says acclaimed wildlife photojournalist Geoff Dalglish in his Sunday Times review. "Nor could Hollywood script the wide-screen wildlife encounters any more dramatically or frequently than nature does routinely in the private game reserve that is arguably South Africa's most famous internationally."

Video Thursday 19 January 2012 Kay Peterson visited MalaMala in November last year. Africa obliged with predictably perfect weather, which made for some great evening drives, and ranger, Gary Hill, didn’t disappoint either.

Cyberdiary 17 January 2012 The New Year has certainly kicked off with a bang. We found the Styx lion pride on a giraffe kill, the Airstrip male leopard on a klipspringer kill, and the Fourways lion pride hunting buffalo.

MalaMala/Aquavision Series Our good friends over at Aquavision have very kindly put together a bumper final edition and it's offers a little bit of everything. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your ongoing support and enthusiasm.

MalaMala Game Reserve is the Safari Industry's blueprint to the luxury photographic safari. In existence since 1927, this massive thriving tract of land produces the most exciting wildlife experience this side of the equator. MalaMala Game Reserve is the largest private Big Five game reserve in South Africa. Comprising 13 300 ha (33 000 acres), MalaMala shares a 19 km (12 mile) unfenced border with the world-renowned Kruger National Park, and lies strategically sandwiched between the National Park and the Sabi Sand Reserve.

For over four decades, Michael Rattray has remained focused on his objective to preserve and protect the land over which he is custodian. Allowing nature to move to its innate rhythm, guests experience today what the forefathers of the African Safari would have experienced at the turn of the century. This philosophy has paid off, as experienced by a veritable collection of photojournalists and film-makers who have made MalaMala their destination of choice to capture footage of wildlife viewing that would rival any Hollywood production for thrilling and breathtaking animal encounters.

MalaMala's Camps (MalaMala Main Camp, Sable Camp and Rattray's on MalaMala) are the embodiment of an authentic safari experience pioneered at a time when the safari was simple - unassuming camps, vast sweeping plains, the African sky and the bush in all its splendour. Wellness was the feeling after a long day in the wild. Cigars were shared without pomp and ceremony.

Guests to MalaMala will still spend hours beneath an inky sky in the traditional boma exchanging stories from the wild - a sumptuous meal, good company and relaxed faces warmed by the crackling fire, accompanied by the nocturnal symphony of sound.