| Are you up for a unique safari experience? Are | | | | Thoroughbred , Appaloosa, and Arab X. An |
| you looking for close encounters with nature? | | | | experienced horse guide and backup rider |
| Would you like to become one with the bush and | | | | accompany all rides. Horses are schooled in the |
| wildlife? In the Kalahari Desert Reserve guests get | | | | Western style of reining and trained for trail riding. |
| treated to memorable horseback safaris for the | | | | Riders need only bring jodhpurs or can ride with |
| whole family or as a romantic adventure for two. | | | | comfortable trousers. Gloves, boots, hard hats as |
| Horse rides take place across picturesque grassy | | | | well as short and long chaps will all be supplied. |
| plains and rolling Kalahari dunes with views across | | | | Surrounding the rugged Korannaberg Mountains in |
| the desert landscape. Most guests are novice | | | | the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, this |
| riders, and therefore there are horses that are | | | | Kalahari Desert Reserve covers 1000km2 (100 |
| suitable for riders with no previous riding | | | | 000 ha) of land on the edge of the mysterious |
| experience. Horses are child friendly which | | | | desert wilderness that is the Kalahari. You will be |
| provides for a very special African family safari | | | | able the find over 70 species of mammal which |
| experience. For children and adults alike, there is | | | | will include the Kalahari lion, cheetah, and desert |
| nothing like seeing animals in the wild or watching | | | | black rhino, sable and roan antelope in this |
| the sun set over a never ending horizon. It is truly | | | | Reserve. More than 200 species of bird can also |
| unforgettable experience to do this on horseback, | | | | be found. |
| part of nature and completely out of sight of | | | | Horseback riding on safari gives riders an up close |
| anything man-made. | | | | and natural experience of timeless Africa. Riders |
| Visitors can ride out to the rolling sand dunes and | | | | become part of the African landscape, becoming |
| find a beautiful picnic lunch or a splendid candle lit | | | | one with nature and their surroundings. You get to |
| dune dinner awaiting them. A dune dinner is an | | | | see wildlife, and scenery which might be missed |
| enchanting experience, offering the vastness of | | | | on a more conventional vehicle safari trip. At this |
| the "diamond studded" Kalahari night sky, Relais & | | | | Kalahari Desert Reserve, the game viewing |
| Chateaux rated culinary delights and the sounds | | | | opportunities are unparalleled in terms of South |
| of silence penetrated occasionally with the roars | | | | African safaris. Horse riding alongside various wild |
| and cries of the African bush. | | | | animals across the savannah, embracing the sights |
| The Kalahari Desert has a variety of horses that | | | | and sounds of Africa, is an truly unforgettable |
| includes the following breeds: Percheron X, | | | | experience. Don't miss out! |
| Boerperd, Boerperd X, Quarter Horse X, | | | | |