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Singita Lebombo
Lebombo, Kruger Park Concessions
- Contemporary, functional design with plenty of glass and some steel
- Palatial suites with views beyond your peripheral vision
- Excellent game-viewing in pristine and spectacular wilderness
Made of glass, steel and wooden sticks, Singita Lebombo is an avant-garde lodge that nudges the boundaries of African architecture in all directions. The décor brings together street cafés from Europe, bar lounges from Scandinavia, beach huts from Bali and loft apartments from Joburg.
The suites look like large shoe boxes on stilts with glass walls, steel pillars and enormous decks extending out over the abyss. Long sticks, tied together raft-style, line the roof and hang over the edges to keep out the sun and everywhere you look there are inviting mattresses, loungers and oddly-shaped recliners.
Haute cuisine, an enormous wine cellar and hotel-like facilities – gym, spa, library, internet - round off one of Africa’s most exclusive lodges.
On the Mozambique border, the Lebombo Concession is a private reserve in the south-eastern region of the Kruger National Park. The wilderness of the Lebombo hills is undisturbed and, so say the rangers, the wildlife concentrations are high thanks mostly to the N’wanetsi – get your mouth around that – and Sweni Rivers that join in the valley below.
The game is so abundant you’ll be learning new collective nouns every day – here are a few to start you off: a journey of giraffe, a pod of hippos, a charm of finches and, everyone’s favourite, a congress of baboons.
The mountains, rivers and floodplains create spectacular scenery and in addition to the ‘big five’ there are clusters of rare antelope and a dissimulation of endemic birds to be found in the reserve.
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Type: Lodge
Rates from: R8000pp sharing
Status: Doused in Fairy Dust
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The Lebombo Concession is rumpled by the mountain range of the same name and cut by the N’wanetsi and Sweni Rivers in the east of the Kruger Park. |
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The Kruger Park and its private concessions offer abundant wildlife, stunning scenery and fascinating plants in a never-ending expanse of pristine African bush. |
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