Balule Nature Reserve
Balule Private Nature Reserve was established about 10 years ago and is made up of several individually-managed but unfenced reserves on both sides of the Olifants River. Balule Private Nature Reserve consists of the Greater Olifants River Conservancy, Olifants West Game Reserve, York Game Reserve, Parsons Game Reserve, Olifants North Game Reserve and Grietjie Game Reserve. Its fences got dropped in 1994 with the Kruger Park, adding about 140,000ha of veld for animals to traverse over. Timbavati and Umbabat dropped fences in 1988, and the Timbavati and Klaserie dropped their internal fence in 1992. The Balule Private Nature Reserve lies to the east of Mica. This exclusive reserve of roughly 50,000ha borders the Kruger National Park.
See Africa’s Big 5, as well as large variety of buck and bird species. Balule Nature Reserve is today an exclusive and comfortable way to spend a relaxing time in the pristine African bushveld, and is also a great stopover en route to the Kruger Park. Balule Private Nature Reserve is situated quite close to the lowveld towns of Hoedspruit and Phalaborwa, drive or by fly in at the Phalaborwa Airport.
