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Where wilderness meets refined elegance.

Nestled on the banks of the Bushman’s River, Sarili Private Villa offers an exclusive escape into Africa’s untamed beauty, without compromising on comfort or luxury. With space for family and friends, modern interiors, and front-row seats to the Big Five, this is more than a safari — it’s your private sanctuary in the Eastern Cape.

✨ Your journey to extraordinary begins here.

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Your Journey Begins in Comfort

Our exclusive air shuttle takes you directly from Cape Town International or OR Tambo straight into Shamwari Private Game Reserve—no layovers, no detours. Just effortless luxury, from city to safari. ✈️

Indulge in the comfort of private lounges and a seamless pre-flight experience designed with elegance in mind.

Flights begin mid-December. Have you booked your seat in the sky?

www.shamwari.com

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Meet Cleone Miller @cleone24 one of Shamwari’s inspiring female field guides — leading with knowledge, heart, and quiet strength. This #WorldFemaleRangerWeek, we celebrate the women who walk the wild with purpose. 🌿💚

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Shamwari Untamed: Season 2 has won TWO major awards at the 2025 International Tourism Film Festival Africa (ITFFA)!

🥇 Episode 9 earned GOLD for Best Documentary in the TV & Web Conservation Series category
🎬 The full 10-part series won the Festival Directors’ Award for Wildlife & Conservation

Though it’s not yet available in South Africa, you can watch the official trailer here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldRR9rbyMy8 🎥

Created by award-winning filmmakers Janine Joubert & Andrew Barratt (pictured below), the series follows wildlife vet Johan Joubert and ecologist John O’Brien as they lead the rewilding of newly acquired land at Shamwari Private Game Reserve.

Highlights include:
🦅 One of Africa’s largest vulture relocations
🐘 The emotional reintroduction of orphaned elephants into a wild herd
🦒 Intensive care for baby giraffes & rhinos at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
💚 Building a meerkat habitat for wild release
🛰️ Use of solar-powered GPS collars + AI for anti-poaching response
🦁 Tracking wild lion & cheetah cubs

“A truly accurate, insightful and authentic depiction of a conservation team at work.” — Joe Cloete, Shamwari CEO

🌍 Real conservation. Real stories. Real impact.

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🌍✨ In case you missed it, now’s the time to notice the giraffe.

This World Giraffe Day (21 June), we’re shining a light on one of Africa’s most graceful icons, often admired, but quietly in decline. While rhinos and pangolins headline conservation news, giraffes have lost 30% of their population in the past 35 years, with just 117,000 remaining in the wild (*Giraffe Conservation Foundation)

The threats? Habitat loss from farming and development, poaching, and a surprising one, lack of awareness. As Joe Cloete, CEO of Shamwari Private Game Reserve, shares, giraffes play a vital ecological role, shaping vegetation and supporting entire ecosystems. Yet they’ve received less conservation attention, until now.

At places like Shamwari, private game reserves are becoming powerful forces for good. They protect large landscapes, restore habitats, run high-tech anti-poaching patrols, and maintain healthy breeding populations to preserve genetic diversity.

And it’s not just about wildlife, local communities benefit too. Through outreach and job creation, reserves like Shamwari show that conservation can support people as well as nature.

This World Giraffe Day, we invite you to look up—literally and figuratively, and see these incredible animals anew. Their survival depends not only on awareness, but on the collective care of all who share this planet.

📸@the.safari.guy

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LAUNCHING……Shamwari Air Shuttle takes to the sky mid December 2025

Shamwari is proud to unveil our exclusive air travel service, offering guests direct access into the reserve, landing right on Shamwari’s private airstrip. ✈️

With departures from Johannesburg and Cape Town International, Shamwari Air Shuttle ensures that every moment of your journey is as smooth as it is stylish.

Experience the ultimate in comfort, convenience, and time efficiency with our all-inclusive Fly-In Packages, designed so you can spend less time travelling and more time immersed in the wild beauty of Shamwari.

Arrive in style. Experience the wild. Leave transformed.

🌐 www.shamwari.com

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🌿 Family Safari Fun at Riverdene Family Lodge! 🐘🌟

Looking for the ultimate family getaway? At Riverdene Family Lodge, we welcome kids of all ages to explore, play, and connect with nature in unforgettable ways!

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Our 4 spacious family units include a private safari vehicle, giving you:
• Flexible game drive times
• Tailor-made bush adventures just for your family

And for the little explorers? Our Kids Adventure Centre is packed with fun — from pizza-making and biscuit decorating 🍕🍪 to zip lines, rock climbing walls, and towering jungle gyms 🧗‍♀️

Every moment is designed to bring families closer together under the African sky. ✨

Book your family stay via the link in our bio.
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FROM VISION TO FOUNDATION
Progress you can feel. Every detail matters and this is only the beginning. A new journey is unfolding and we’re so excited to welcome you!

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🌍 Global Big Day 2025 | A Celebration of Birds Around the World 🐦

While much of the world buzzed with excitement on May 10th for Global Big Day—an annual 24-hour birding event hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, our team of expert guides set off at first light, ready to uncover the avian wonders hidden across our reserve.

Armed with Swarovski Optik binoculars (a game-changer in the field), and fueled by hot coffee and early morning birdsong, we ventured out into the crisp, nearly-winter air. Migration season may be behind us, but the bush was still alive with calls, colors, and wingbeats.

By sundown, we had tallied 120 species, a remarkable number considering the seasonal stillness. Every sighting was a reminder of nature’s quiet resilience and beauty.

Global Big Day is more than just numbers. It’s a global initiative to gather valuable data for scientists, helping track bird populations, migration patterns, and habitat health. It’s also about raising awareness of bird conservation, and celebrating the joy and wonder these species bring to our world. We’re proud to contribute to this collective effort and honored to have done so from the heart of the wild.

Swipe through for a few highlights from an unforgettable day in the bush.

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“A mother’s love stays awake even when the world is asleep.” – African Proverb

This Mother’s Day, we honour the strength, devotion, patience, and instinct that unites mothers—whether under the city lights, or beneath the endless African sky.

From all of us at Shamwari, Happy Mother’s Day.

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