Pafuri Camp

Children Policy

Children aged 6 years and older are welcome. Rates available on request.

Children's Programme

The concept of 'family safari' has just taken a quantum leap at Pafuri Camp in the northern Kruger National Park, thanks to a variety of exciting activities that have been created to teach children about the bush and have an enormous amount of fun at the same time.

There’s so much to learn and enjoy in the natural surroundings of Pafuri Camp. When not joining parents on drives, or while their elders relax at camp, children enjoy their own activities with professional guides, learning basic survival skills, such as where to find water or what plants are good to eat. They are encouraged to collect and identify anything that is of interest to them – leaves, grasses, even dung! Back at camp, they can quiz each other (and any unwary adult in the vicinity) on the identity of each object and put them up on the Special Interests Chart in the lounge area.

There are also 'themed' excursions – for example, they’ll take a drive out into the veld to meet various trees and plants, or experience the Fever Tree Forest where, just by sitting quietly, they learn to take in their surroundings and get to know their own space. Then there’s the option of a day picnic, where they will stop under huge shady trees and all catch a power nap during the heat of the day.

Food is always fun, and cooking in the bush is a completely different culinary experience! Children are taught to make a fire, find a stick and use it to wrap their home-made “stokbrood”
dough around, and then put it on the fire… delicious! Or put a marshmallow on the end of those sticks to roast at the evening fire. Then there’s the Baobab Picnic, where they can climb thenearby baobab tree (with staff on hand to make sure of everyone’s safety). At the top they’ll have a picnic – a box filled with all kinds of treats and goodies – while looking out over the scenery. Food always tastes better at the top of a baobab …

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