GARDEN ROUTE SAFARIS Kwandwe Ecca Lodge

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Positioned in the Malaria free Big Five Garden Route Safari Area Kwandwe Private Game Reserve features two exclusive safari lodges and two sole-use villas all offering world-class sophistication and style in the African bush.

A victory for far-sighted conservation, 25 000 hectares (62 000 acres) of farmland in the Great Fish River region was restored and restocked with African wildlife. Today, thousands of animals including lion, black and white rhino, buffalo and elephant roam this diverse and fascinating reserve.

Operated by CC Africa, Kwandwe aptly means "Place of the Blue Crane" in Xhosa (South Africa's highly endangered national bird) and is home to a population of these rare birds. It offers an exceptional safari experience in a region steeped in history and culture.

Kwandwe Ecca Lodge is set in spectacular African wilderness surrounds, this unique safari lodge boasts a revolutionary design - stone-and-mesh gabion walls, sliding glass, timber and gauze doors and corrugated iron roofing. Exquisite guest areas overlook spekboom valleys with a backdrop of the distant cliff-faces of ecca shale.

Ecca Lodge is fun, flamboyant and fabulous, with a "funk-meets-futuristic-farmhouse" ambience. Nestled into a gently sloping, densely vegetated hillside, the Lodge is airy and open with barely a barrier between indoors and the African bushveld.