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Bush Conferences close to the City of Johannesburg and Pretoria
Using the sensory delivery of the seasons, the landscape, the flora and the fauna combined with 5-star cuisine, and a wholly and totally private meeting space, event organisers can guarantee their groups see no other corporate delegates or guests in sight. With top-level service and high-end meeting facilities, booking your private luxury tented safari event on the edge of the city is guaranteed to become your biggest event coup of the year.
Safari Butlers of the African Bush
As custodians of the guest’s experience in some of the wildest and untouched landscapes across the globe, the Safari butler carries his own instinct for the bush and a finely-tuned sixth sense for serving up luxury and wildlife adventures in chartered spaces.
Bird-watching Safaris in South Africa
Dinokeng is one of South Africa’s best bird-watching regions in South Africa, in terms of species and numbers. Drive just one hour from Johannesburg or a mere 30 minutes from Pretoria into the Dinokeng wildlife reserve region, and you will experience the highest count of bird sightings in South Africa equaling over 350 species in just 24 hours.
Listen to the Magic Hour at Dusk in Untouched African Bush Veld
All life in Africa is organic, active, raw and sudden. Here, life and death happen in an instance, and just one hour of sitting still at sunset reveals this breath-taking transition.
What life’s safari journey has taught me
Grand safari greetings I trust life is treating you well no matter the circumstances. Life lessons are an interesting contemplation don't you think? We are all on our own safari / journey and walk that path sometimes with family, sometimes with friends and sometimes...
Reputation matters…
Grand safari greetings I sincerely trust you have been keeping well! I recently was reminded rather vividly that reputation has a manner of sticking around - long after you've gone! And one would truly, most sincerely, hope, trust and pray that your reputation for...
Walking Safaris into untapped Africa’s wildest Big 5 Adventures
Each intimate bespoke mobile tented safari camp offers our guests the privilege of a Big 5 walking experience led by safari rangers adept and knowledgeable of the region, the wildlife, bird life and indigenous vegetation to help you identify the sounds, the smells, the textures, the temperatures and the African colours.
Luxury Safari Travel that doesn’t follow the Crowd
For those looking for exceptional experiences off the beaten track we’d like to invite you to revisit what an authentic African Safari is really about and how you can best enjoy Africa’s wild beauty like nowhere else to be found on earth on a Hayward’s luxury mobile tented Grand Safari; as authentic and original as your great grandfather safari memories of days of old, with slathering of 5-star luxury thrown in.
Culinary Experiences on Safari in 2020
With 20 years’ of hosting corporate VIPs, royalty and Hollywood’s rich and famous, Hayward’s Grand Safari Company – celebrated as Africa’s top mobile tented safari lodge by the World Travel Awards – has been serving international standards of cuisine for up to 200 adventure-minded guests who visit southern Africa’s most pristine and naturally breath-taking safari destinations.