Jembisa Bush Home

Description:

A small and stylish bush home in its own private wildlife reserve offering a unique safari experience that is a perfect blend of adventure and comfort. Situated in beautiful wilderness above the Palala river in the Waterberg region of the northern Limpopo province of South Africa. It offers a wide range of wildlife and safari activities that are flexible to suit all ages and interests. Easily accessible from Johannesburg and malaria-free.

Jembisa lies in the heart of the Unesco world biosphere reserve of the Waterberg. It is a breathtakingly beautiful private reserve that encompasses a wide diversity of habitats and biomes including savannah plains, syringa forests, riverine forests, gullies, rock faces, cliffs, flood plains and with 7km of the Palala river meandering through it.

As a result, it is home to a very broad range of fauna and flora species. Game species includes, leopard, giraffe, gemsbuck, blesbuck, zebra, wildebeest, serval cats, Livingstone eland, zebra, red hartebeest, hippo, crocodile, steenbok, bushbuck, kudu, duiker and many nocturnal animals such as civet cats, porcupine, bushbaby, brown hyena, genet, aardwolf and the relatively rare, but frequently sighted at Jembisa, aardvark.

Jembisa was originally built as a family home and for many years the owners lived here. The same family still own and run the reserve and with their presence Jembisa has retained a wonderfully relaxed atmosphere. Staying here really does feel like a holiday to one’s home in the bush with personal collections available to all in the library and games room. The heritage of this safari lodge has given it a unique atmosphere of warmth, care, fun, peace plus an intangible ‘special something’ that is hard to define.

The Jembisa Bush Home will cater to your every desire. Fancy a refreshing swim in the heated pool, a game of tennis on the floodlit court or just sitting back with a good book; we’ve got you covered.

Whether you wish to relax in style or be more active, there are a host of options available at Jembisa. An essential oils massage on the sundeck, a visit to the bushman rock art, bush walks on the trail of wild game or a traditional game drive, day or night, in open Land Rovers – all are possible. Game on the reserve includes giraffe, zebra, leopard, brown hyena, hippo and crocodile, with opportunities on night drives to see aardvark, civet cats and porcupines.

Jembisa  is proud of being family orientated and specializes in family safaris offering a very wide range of unique activities designed to give a full and rounded depth to the safari. As a small lodge they are flexible with their safari program and cater to the ages and interests of each group of guests.