With the school half-term holidays only a few weeks away, and Easter following on shortly afterwards, we thought this would be a good time to\u00a0look at\u00a0the most popular safari lodges for families visiting South Africa’s malaria-free regions.<\/p>\n
A quick glance at the listing below show that the game reserves in the Eastern Cape<\/a>\u00a0(Kariega, Kwandwe, Lalibela, Shamwari, and Amakhala) are particularly popular with families, and safari lodges in this area take the first 7 spots. This highlights the great appeal of South Africa’s most popular family holiday route\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0which is a few days in Cape Town, followed by some time exploring the Garden Route Coastline and a safari in one of these malaria free reserves.<\/p>\n The remainder of the top 10 is made up with lodges in the Madikwe reserve <\/a>up in the far north of the country on the border with South Africa, and somewhat surprisingly no lodges from The Waterberg<\/a> area feature at all despite it’s convenient location just a couple of hours outside Johannesburg.<\/p>\n The Kruger area<\/a> and KwaZulu-Natal<\/a> are both considered low-risk malaria areas and are therefore excluded from this listing.<\/p>\n The full listing is:<\/p>\n 1 ) Kariega Lodge<\/font><\/a> This listing is ranked on the number of nights children under 12 have spent at each lodge based on recent bookings made by Travel Butlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the school half-term holidays only a few weeks away, and Easter following on shortly afterwards, we thought this would be a good time to\u00a0look at\u00a0the most popular safari lodges for families visiting South Africa’s malaria-free regions. A quick glance at the listing below show that the game reserves in the Eastern Cape\u00a0(Kariega, Kwandwe, Lalibela, […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,89,13],"tags":[91,26,93,92,94,95,73,90,19,1378],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-safari","category-family-holidays","category-south-africa","tag-children","tag-families","tag-kariega","tag-kids","tag-kwandwe","tag-lalibela","tag-malaria-free","tag-safari-lodge","tag-shamwari","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2 ) Kwandwe Ecca Lodge<\/font><\/a>
\n3 ) Mark’s Camp<\/font><\/a>
\n4 ) Long Lee Manor<\/font><\/a>
\n5 ) Woodbury Lodge<\/font><\/a>
\n6 ) Amakhala Safari Lodge<\/font><\/a>
\n7 ) Leeuwenbosch<\/font><\/a>
\n8 ) Little Madikwe<\/font><\/a>
\n9 ) Jaci’s Tree Lodge<\/font><\/a>
\n10 ) Madikwe River Lodge<\/font><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n