Welcome To Unexplored Africa
Hayward’s Grand Safari Company offers private and exclusive groups a bespoke and authentic expedition styled tented safari camp experience in easily accessible wildlife regions throughout Southern Africa.
Our legendary tented camps provide the full hospitality service one would expect at any other five-star venue and are fully staffed, offering high levels of service excellence, to ensure guest satisfaction, comfort and safari enjoyment.
As international award winners for our hospitality event service and Best In Africa at international event and safari award ceremonies since 2004, we continue our quest to provide the absolute best safari service available in Africa.
To achieve this, we design our own tents, build fully functional safari camps for our clients, furnish them to safari specification standards and then fully operate each facility for every event we do. No two camps are ever exactly the same as our camps are set up as per the event requirements we are briefed on from each client.
IDEAL CLIENT AND GUEST PROFILE
Our ideal clients are discerning individuals and groups who value personalized service and complete exclusivity. They’re captivated by the raw beauty of the great outdoors and seek experiences that go far beyond the ordinary. These are people who shy away from cookie-cutter tourism and instead crave rare, immersive adventures that forge unforgettable memories. Often seasoned travelers themselves, they’ve outgrown the standard hotel routine and are eager to explore something truly unique. With a deep appreciation for nature, a love for authenticity, and a spirit of adventure, our guests are looking for something different – something extraordinary – and that’s exactly what we deliver.
BEYOND BESPOKE
Each five star rated tented camp event is set up for you and your group to your exact requirements, representing a truly bespoke, once-off, eco-friendly safari event venue of dynamic proportions.
HOSTING FRIENDS & ASSOCIATES
We set up our exclusive and private camps to entertain and take care of royal families, opinion leaders, captains of industry, magnates, celebrities, entrepreneurs, industrialists and top performers in leading multinational blue-chip companies.
THINKING OF AN EXCLUSIVE EVENT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA?
Uniquely, we are active hands-on owners. Together with our carefully selected team members we strive to provide rare and privileged outdoor safari events that supersede client expectations, acknowledged as their greatest safari event experience ever.
No matter their altitude in life, our clients and their esteemed guests, all share a deep love and passion for the wilderness and are enthralled with what Africa has to offer.
Grand Safari Events & Expeditions
Peter J. W. Hayward conceptualized the Hayward’s Grand Safari Company in 1991 – a ‘world-first’ 5 Star mobile tented safari hotel. He is an active hands on owner and enjoys creating incredible safari events for his clients. Each safari event is run by an active team on a one on one basis. We have a senior management team of approximately nine staff and our crew can expand and contract by up to ninety. This means that the same team taking your brief actually delivers the product originally promised to you.
As safari event specialists in the great African outdoors, we cater primarily to two distinct markets: –
CORPORATE: Stakeholder Summits, EXCO’s, Private VIP Functions, Product Launches, Top Performer Incentive Safari Events, Gala Safari Styled Dinners.
PRIVATE: Milestone Birthday events, Celebrity styled weddings, Family Reunions.
What Are Our Current Safari Camp Offerings?
Currently we have two seasonal safari camp set-ups. Both are seasonal and cover the South African region.
To the north of Johannesburg, we have our Safari Headquarters at Hayward’s Safari Sanctuary in the wildlife rich Bobbejaansberg Private Nature Reserve, adjoining the Dinokeng Game Reserve and over 30’000 hectares of bushveld biosphere just 80km northeast of Oliver Tambo International Airport.
*We do mobilise our safari camps into other regions of southern Africa, but only for longer events of minimum fourteen days at a time. Full payment upfront and additional Ts & Cs apply.*
One thousand four hundred kilometres south of our HQ, is our Western Cape Hayward’s Safari Camp, based at Daniel’s Kraal Farm, Calitzdorp. Here we set-up seasonally within a 2’500 hectare private reserve which adjoins over 80’000 hectares of wilderness managed by Cape Nature. This region falls within within the Greater Gouritz Cluster Biosphere with UNESCO Biosphere status granted in 2015. This seasonal Camp is situated close to the world’s longest wine route (R62) – and is mere 30 minutes drive from Oudtshoorn, the ostrich capital of the world and one hour and thirty minutes form George Airport.
Our Signature Experiences
Safari Weddings
Gala Dinners
Family Safari Reunions
Award Evenings
Out of Africa Picnic
Milestone Birthday Events
Team Building Conferences
Dining Events
Corporate Product Launches
Incentive Safaris
What We Do
We specialise in crafting unforgettable events in the heart of the African wilderness. From intimate safari weddings and milestone birthday celebrations to unforgettable family reunions, we bring people together in nature’s most breathtaking settings. For businesses, we create immersive corporate experiences – whether it’s a dramatic product launch, 4×4 adventure camp, or an elegant gala dinner under the stars. Our incentive safaris offer top performers the ultimate reward, while our custom team-builds and conferences energize and inspire. Every event is uniquely tailored and flawlessly executed, blending world-class service with the magic of the wild.
Camp Locations
One of my favourite pastimes is hunting down incredible camp site locations. Uniquely, Hayward’s can offer our clients the privilege of entertaining their guests in wilderness regions never safaried before – and better still in areas there are no other hotel options – making it a truly rare and privileged occasion for all participants.
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Testimonials
Our outstanding track record ensures positive guest feedback and letters of thanks from our clients.
…what a pleasure to be made to feel so special and important. Giving top marks is usually not an easy task, but they are just so deserving! WOW! You have truly out – done yourselves!
C.F
An experience that will be hard to top. Your staff, food, accommodation is just amazing. It’s been a once in a lifetime experience. Glad I could be part of the experience. May you go from strength to strength!
J.M
…a wonderful conference and a unique experience! We had fantastic feedback from staff (even from the non-campers!) that the attention to detail was awesome and the food without exception exemplary.
D.W
Haywards Awards
Our Latest News
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For more than three decades, Hayward’s Grand Safaris has defined the art of temporary wilderness luxury, crafting five-star safari pop-up camps for VIP event experiences in some of southern Africa’s most remote landscapes. Now, in the spirit of their nomadic...
Update from Peter & Celia
The purpose of this blog is to clarify our new umbrella name LIVINGNESS INCORPORATED, which you may have noticed as the registered brand you are receiving our newsletters from. Our range of products is starting to diversify quite substantially and the various...
Contact Us
Telephone: 0861 732 583
Cellphone: +27 83 600 4453
Email: info@haywardsafaris.com
Head Quarters, Bobbejaansberg Private Nature Reserve,
Boekenhoutskloof, Gauteng, South Africa
