Mashatu Game Reserve

Located in the Northern Tuli Game Reserve of Botswana, Mashatu Private Game Reserve personifies the African experience. The Reserve offers you wide open spaces, magnificent skies and the opportunity to witness an array of wildlife in their natural environment. Encounters with Africa's big cats as well as one of the world's largest mammals - the Elephant, will incite you.

Experienced guides transport you to the ultimate African encounter. All of your senses will be awakened as you are introduced to the land where animals from the smallest to the largest roam.

Mashatu, 'Land of Giants' takes its name from the locally-sacrosanct Mashatu tree and the giants that roam its terrain. As one of the largest private game reserves in southern Africa, Mashatu is, at 25 000 ha (75 000 acres), a fitting setting for the world's largest land mammal (the elephant) - with the largest herds on privately owned land on earth. Mashatu also provides sanctuary to the world's tallest mammal (the giraffe); the world's largest antelope (the eland); the world's largest bird (the ostrich) and of course, the world's heaviest flying bird (the kori bustard). Add the lion, the king of the beasts and the iconic baobab, and you have Africa's Big Seven.

This extraordinary piece of Africa possesses an ecological diversity uncommon in other reserves. Complementing three members of the Big Five - leopard, lion and elephant - are some of the more surprising species, including the aardwolf, bat-eared fox, African wild cat, honey badger and black-backed jackal. Recently introduced to Mashatu is the endangered wild dog. Mashatu is also an ornithological paradise, and plays host to more than 350 bird species, including the enchanting lilac-breasted roller, whose plumage features no fewer than seven different shades of blue.

The Mashatu experience offers you unexpected adventure beyond the game drive with horse-back safaris, cycling safaris and walks in the wild.

There is a choice of accommodation on the Reserve. Mashatu Main Camp offers a truly luxurious experience, while the Tented Camp, although offering you all of the comforts is a more rustic option.