Welgevonden Game Reserve
Welgevonden is a 37,000 hectare private game reserve and started in 1993. Leopards were already naturally living in the area at that time, and lions, elephants, white rhinos, buffalo and a number of special types of antelopes such as the gemsbok and sable were reintroduced. The area therefore has the Big Five and is one of the private game reserves with the largest population of white rhinos in Africa, which increases the chance of seeing them. There are also 45 other species in the area such as giraffes, zebras, cheetahs, hippos, elk, blue wildebeest, ibex, kudu, klipspringers, jackals, monkeys and the rare brown hyena. In addition, there are more than 250 different bird species including the rare blue crane that you can spot in the reserve.
The temperature in the reserve is on average as follows: the winter months of May to July are dry and have a temperature of a maximum of 22.3 and a minimum of 2.6 degrees, it can freeze on the ground at night. From August to October the temperature is already higher with minimum and maximum between 8.6 and 27.6. In general, it is still dry these months, but a single thunderstorm can occur. The wet summer season runs from November to April and has the highest temperatures; between 14.5 and 29.3 degrees on average. The reserve can be visited throughout the year and is malaria free.
