JVZ Safaris
Open-air dining deck at a JVZ Safaris lodge with pool and bushveld views

Our Lodges

Three camps. Never shared.

Whichever camp your safari calls for, it hosts your party alone. Fully inclusive: private chef, en suite rooms, daily laundry, WiFi, pools, and quality local wine and spirits.

Menus are prepared around your party, dietary needs included. Non-hunting companions are welcome in every camp.

Waterberg · Bela Bela

Tunda

Tunda sits inside the Waterberg mountain range, forty-five minutes from Bela Bela and two hours from OR Tambo International. It is the closest of the three camps to Johannesburg, which makes it the natural first stop for a party landing off an overnight flight and wanting to be on the ground, rifle checked, the same afternoon.

  • 8 en suite rooms
  • Swimming pool
  • Bar & lounge
  • Fire pit
  • 2 hours from OR Tambo
Thatched entrance at Tunda lodge in the Waterberg
Thatched guest cottage in the bushveld
Lodge dining room set for dinner

Waterberg · Bela Bela

Hoogland

Hoogland shares a concession with Tunda and holds the view: one hundred and eighty degrees over a river ravine, from the deck, the pool and most of the rooms. Evenings here explain themselves. It is the camp guests photograph most, and the one they talk about when they get home.

  • 8 en suite rooms
  • 180° ravine views
  • Swimming pool
  • Bar & lounge
  • Fire pit
Covered deck at Hoogland overlooking the river ravine
180 degree view over the river ravine at Hoogland
Bedroom with floor-to-ceiling views of the bushveld

Thabazimbi

Mogwele

Mogwele sits outside Thabazimbi, in country regarded as some of the best hunting ground in South Africa for the abundance of game, the variety of species and the size of the trophies it produces. Four rooms, a boma under the stars, and the serious hunting a smaller camp was built for.

  • 4 en suite rooms
  • Boma & lounge
  • Swimming pool
  • Bar
  • 3.5 hours from OR Tambo
Leather lounge and bar at Mogwele lodge
En suite twin room at Mogwele
Thatched poolside lapa at the lodge

The table

Dinner is part of the safari

Your chef cooks for your table only: breakfasts before first light, lunches by the pool, dinners that end at the fire. Local wine and spirits are part of the camp, not an extra.

Dinner table set with linen at a JVZ lodge
Round plunge pool on the lawn at a JVZ lodge
Stone basin on a sleeper-wood counter in a lodge bathroom
Modern en suite bedroom at a JVZ lodge