Awards

FGASA is the Field Guides Association of Southern Africa and represents individual Tourist Guides, Nature, Culture and Adventure guides and Trackers.

The association sets qualifications and maintains exceptional standards for field guides in the tourism industry. All Shamwari rangers are FGASA accredited and are highly skilled professional nature guides.

The FGASA Annual General Meeting was held on Wednesday 7th August 2019 to give recognition to field guides that are excelling in the industry.https://www.fgasa.co.za/

Shamwari Private Game Reserve has a large and dedicated rangers’ team that provide our guests with phenomenal safari experiences daily.

The team is headed by Andrew Kearney, who is passionate about continuously advancing his team to better heights.

Rangers with an Honourable Mention for Nominations:

Leon Strauss for the Addo Award

Taneal Beetge for the tracking Karoha Award, thus placing Teneal 3rd in the province achieving her level 3 track and sign qualification!

Keenan Mouton for the Advanced Rifle Handling Award

Jan Dykema for the Bronze Aloe Award

Jéan Taute for the Bronze Aloe Award

Category Winners:

Jonathan van Zyl received the Advanced Rifle Handling Award, achieving the highest score in the province for the year!

Shamwari Private Game Reserve Rangers department won the Frontier award for excellence in nature guiding in the Eastern Cape.

Well done, team

The 5-star multi award-winning Shamwari Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, renowned for its Big 5 malaria-free safaris and conservation successes, has won Gold at the 2017 Diners Club Winelist Awards, which took place at Fancourt Hotel & Country Club Estate.

Comments Group General Manager, Joe Cloete, “This is another great highlight for us during our 25th Anniversary and our extensive wine lists, at all 6 lodges, have been carefully selected to promote the great choice of South African wines, as well as international, to complement the ever-changing menu selections.”

The award was received, on behalf of Shamwari Game Reserve, by Kim Matysik, Food and Beverage Manager & Event Co-Ordinator.

June 2016 – Shamwari Private Game Reserve, based in the Eastern Cape, has won two awards in the Safari Index Tusker Ultimate Safari Experience Awards 2016! Shamwari Private Game Reserve, as a whole, came out on top in the Ultimate Safari Destination category. Additionally, Eagles Crag Lodge won first place in the category for Ultimate Luxury Safari Camps.

The Tusker Awards are not your average tourism award. It focuses on the holistic safari experience instead of just the accommodation or lodging.  Tuskers offer a unique set of awards that showcase a variety of safari experiences in various categories.

The term “Tusker” is generally used to identify or characterise a male elephant with impressively large tusks. In other words, the Big Tusker represents the largest of the tuskers. There are only a hand full of Big Tuskers left in the wild, this means that only a select few individuals get the privilege of seeing them in person.

As such, we felt that this term best embodied an award given to safari experiences that are extremely unique and give the guests a once in a lifetime experience.

The candidates in each category were nominated by the Safari Index team. The criteria was based on the all-round safari experiences that they have on offer. Guests who had visited the candidate game reserves were asked to vote for the ‘Big Tusker’ in each category.

Joe Cloete, Group General Manager for Shamwari said:

“Not only is the Shamwari team proud to have been given these two awards but it’s always encouraging to get such great feedback from our guests. It lets us know that we are fulfilling their safari experiences at Shamwari Game Reserve.”

Shamwari Game Reserve needs your vote to become the Ultimate Safari Destination in Africa!  We have been nominated for an overwhelming amount of awards of late and we stand a chance to win them all with your help. Vote for your favourite lodge by following the links below…

LILIZELA AWARDS 2016

If you’ve been to Shamwari and enjoyed your safari experience, please be so kind as to vote for us in the upcoming Lilizela Tourism Awards by clicking on the various links for each lodge below.

Eagles Crag Lodge
Bayethe Tented Lodge
Sarili Lodge
Riverdene Family Lodge
Long Lee Manor

As part of the Lilizela Tourism Awards, we’ve also been nominated in the ‘Visitor Experience of the Year’ category. Please cast your vote for Shamwari Game Reserve here.

Thank you…Your support will be greatly appreciated!

TUSKER AWARDS 2016

[Update] Shamwari has won two awards in the Tusker Awards 2016 cycle! Thank you for your votes! You can read more about it here.

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Eagles Crag as Lavishly Luxurious: EaglesCrag323
Riverdene Lodge as Family Favourites: Riverdene323