ELEPHANT SANCTUARY AND LION AND SAFARI PARK: (Full day ± 8 hrs)

Hours allocated include travelling time

The Elephant Sanctuary has African elephants and offers an interactive elephant experience. It offers hands on educational Elephant interactions. This provides guests with a far more intimate experience with the Elephants. Positive reinforcement elephant training methods are used, as a result Elephants are relaxed and enjoy interacting with guests.

Guests are guided on foot through the Elephant Sanctuary. Guides will provide in-depth information and insight into African Elephants. You will be introduced to the Elephants in the forest area, here you will be able to touch, interact, walk trunk in hand with Elephants and see Stables where the Elephants sleep at night. Guests learn the anatomy of Elephants and they are able to feed them.

At the Lion and Safari Park, the guided game drive on a modern safari vehicle, will take you through the Lion, Wild dog and Hyena enclosures.
During the tour you will have an opportunity to see herbivores including Zebra, Giraffe and Nyala
Antelopes are roaming freely in the Park.

Pick up points: 
We pick up from your hotel, guest house, lodge, and work place, around Johannesburg, Johannesburg Central, South, North and North West, in Sandton, Rosebank, Fourways , Melrose Arch, Illovo, Randburg, Roodepoort,  Edenvale, Bedfordview, Kempton Park, Boksburg, Alberton, Midrand, Centurion, Pretoria and Rosebank Gautrain Station and accommodations around O R Tambo airport
Pick up times:
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Minimum: 1 person

 Package rate inclusions:

• Pick up and drop off in a comfortable air conditioned vehicle
• Entrance, guided tour through the Elephant sanctuary including interaction
• Lion and Wild dog tour on a modern Safari vehicle 
• Interaction with Lion Cubs

   

Elephant riding (Optional)
Riding is an opportunity to experience elephants from a different perspective and is conducted in a boma. It is not a safari experience. (Only for the fit and adventurous). We recommend you wear jeans or long pants.

Riding is an optional extra which can be" added-on" to the Elephant Interaction program and cannot be confirmed until the day of the programme.
Children must be 8 years+ in order to ride elephants.

 For the safety of guests Senior Handler will either approve or decline any riding on the day

The Lion and Safari Park is a 600 hectare wilderness reserved, situated in the Cradle of Humankind area. Guests are guaranteed an opportunity to get extremely close to many of Africa's most exciting animals.

 The Lion Park is home to more than 85 Lions; including rare White lion, and many other Carnivores, such as Cheetahs and Wild dogs. A variety of Antelopes indigenous to Africa are also found. The Lion Park is not a Zoo; herbivores are roaming freely in the park

Three prides of  Lions are kept in camps including the Wild dogs.

Lion cub interaction
Have an opportunity to interact with young Lion cubs. And walk around and view other indigenous young animals.

Feeding Giraffe and other Animals (Optional)
Have an extraordinary face to face encounter with the world's tallest animal - Giraffe. Feed and interact with these warm and friendly animals from a feeding platform. The feeding platform is periodically visited by a variety of other animals including Zebra and Nyala.

Restaurants
The Lion and Safari Park offers a large outdoor and family restaurant - Wetlands and family bar. The restaurant sell variety of dishes including hamburgers, Flame grill chicken and Samosas.
Halaal food is available.
Also situated at the Lion Park, is the amazing Bul n' Buck Grill. The restaurant sells a variety of dishes, from Veal to Chicken, Seafood or Steak.

 

Retail shops
The 5 Dome shopping experience is one of South Africa's premier shopping destinations, with a range of goods including locally sourced African Arts and Crafts, jewellery, Clothing and Home-ware.

 

World's largest photographic centre
The Lion and Safari Park offers the one stop Printing and Photographic solution. Print your personal pictures at low costs, and have your photos taken professionally with the animals, and choose from a variety of fun backgrounds.