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Salt Lick Safari Lodge

Salt Lick Safari Lodge

Taita Hills

Salt Lick Safari Lodge is a distinctive and luxurious safari destination located in the Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary in Kenya, adjacent to Tsavo West National Park. Renowned for its unique design and exceptional wildlife viewing opportunities, the lodge offers an unforgettable experience in the heart of one of Kenya’s most picturesque regions.

The lodge is famously built on stilts, with elevated walkways connecting circular rooms that resemble traditional Maasai huts. This unique architecture allows you to enjoy panoramic views of the surrounding landscape and the nearby waterholes from the comfort of your room. The waterholes are a central feature of the lodge, attracting a wide variety of wildlife throughout the day and night, offering guests the rare chance to observe animals up close. Elephants, buffalo, zebra, and antelope are frequent visitors, and you may even spot lions and leopards.

The Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, where the lodge is located, is a private conservancy that offers a rich diversity of wildlife within a relatively small area. The sanctuary is home to over 50 species of mammals and 300 species of birds, making it a prime destination for both game viewing and birdwatching. The sanctuary's proximity to Tsavo West National Park also allows you to explore one of Kenya’s largest and most iconic parks, known for its dramatic landscapes and large elephant herds.

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Amenities

Activities, Bar, Game Drives, Restaurant, Safari Style All Inclusive

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Nestled in the heart of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, Granny Mouse Country House & Spa is a perfect choice for some relaxation in beautiful surroundings. It offers award-winning cuisine and wine along with comfortable accommodations. The hotel is ideally suited for exploring this part of KZN, along the route known as the Midlands Meander, dotted with pretty villages, artist communities and wonderful cafes and restaurants serving locally sourced produce. 

You'll enjoy a restaurant and bar, swimming pool, spa, free parking, and there are a whole selection of activities to enjoy locally including horse riding, hiking and hot air ballooning. 

The rooms are spacious, and each one offers a fireplace for those chillier winter nights, television, mini-bar, tea and coffee making facilities, patio and are set in the gardens.

Granny Mouse

KZN Midlands

The reserve is located overlooking Walker Bay, around 30 miles east of Hermanus and less than 2 hours drive from Cape Town. It's a truly magical location offering a range of accommodation and facilities to suit all ages from family groups to couples or groups of friends. Due to the amount of activities on offer it is recommended that a stay of at least 3 nights to really enjoy yourself. 

Facilities include a swimming pool, restaurant, laundry service and beauty salon and bar. 

Your stay includes a number of activities such as guided walks and 4x4 drives through the reserve, horse rides, whale watching trips (Jun/Jul to Dec) beach walks and bird watching and much more. Plus there are lots more at additional cost. The comfortable rooms at Garden Lodge are set in the gardens and are linked by walkways and are perfect for families.

Grootbos Private Nature Reserve

near Hermanus

This charming country house hotel is just a short distance from the city centre and is the ideal place to break your journey at the beginning or the end of a journey along the Garden Route or a visit to the Eastern Cape game lodges. If time allows there is plenty to do in the area including a range of beach activities as well as a visit to beachfront craft market. 

There's a restaurant and bar, lounges for relaxing and if you're feeling energetic there's swimming pool and tennis court. The airport is just a short drive away making this an ideal place if you have an early flight the next day. The rooms are tastefully decorated with lots of traditional touches, all have air conditioning and heating, tea and coffee-making facilities and a safe.

Hacklewood Hill

Port Elizabeth

How our Tent Ratings work

These are based on our personal experience of the hotel, camp or lodge and should not be compared against ratings you find elsewhere. We intend to guide you and don’t be put off by a low tent rating as some of our favourites fall into the 2 and 3-tent categories.​

It is also important to bear in mind that standards vary from country to country and a 4-tent hotel in South Africa cannot be compared with a 4-tent hotel in another part of the world. 

To summarise our grading system, we have considered the following.

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High in both quality and luxury of experience, and property must have ‘wowed’ us on many levels.

This is our benchmark for excellent service and experience, location and /or activities. 

Good relative value, excellent location and/or experience, and offering an ideal base for exploring the area.

Budget-focused stopover property, sometimes it’s the ideal location on a driving itinerary.

Don’t be put off, these stays are comfortable and a perfect pit stop on a journey where the choices may be limited. 

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+44 (0)7516 766404

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