Garonga Safari Co. is invested in reducing our carbon footprint and creating an eco friendly safari experience in South Africa. Through the various green actions listed below, we use our surrounding natural resources sustainably and with minimal wastage left behind. We continually seek innovative ways to be kinder to our environment and the wildlife we share it with.
All of our camps and their respective areas are fully equipped with state-of-the-art solar power systems. This ensures an uninterrupted flow of electricity, allowing us to guarantee an exceptional luxury safari experience without any disruption caused by power outages.
Garonga will be offering Guests to plant a Spekbom Tree to offset some of their Carbon Footprint.
We will plant them in our Boma so the Ellies, Rhinos etc don’t eat them.
A short explanation of Spekbom: This plant (Portulacaria Africa) holds perhaps one of the greatest secrets in our fight against offsetting carbon Emissions. This evergreen succulent is indigenous to South Africa and can be found towering high in the Arid Karoo or in the E.Cape. This plant can grow to 5m in height and live up to 200 years old.The highest recorded carbon sequestration from a spekbom thicket is 15.4 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) per hactre per year, making it a great contender against the Amazon Rainforest. On average though, 1 hactre of Spekbom will sequester 4-10 tonnes of CO2 per year in the right Circumstances. It can easily survive in the harshest on environments with little water.
Cost R 220.00 per tree with the Guests name and date when planted.
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Help for Heroes, a UK Charity, is the main charity Garonga supports. Garonga will contribute 5% off every direct booking to H4H, and offer wider support to the charity. If you would like to know more about the vital work which directly supports the armed forces community, visit www.helpforheroes.org.uk. Please support as best you can – these men and women are living with the impact of their service and still desperately need your help.
Game drives are at the heart of the Garonga experience, allowing you to encounter the Big 5 and other wildlife up close. Your stay will typically include a morning and afternoon game drive in our open-air Land Rovers. Two of our experienced and qualified guides will lead you through the bush, impressing you with their knowledge of the great variety of wildlife in the reserve. Their tracking skills are exceptional, giving them the advantage of locating animals based on their recent movements and enabling your safari sightings dreams to come true. On a morning game drive, as the animals are waking up, tuck into tea, coffee and snacks in the bush. Then, in the late afternoon, sip on a cocktail or glass of wine as the sun slowly dips below the horizon. In addition to the Big 5 (elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, and rhino), look out for cheetah, spotted hyena, black rhino, African wild dog, hippos, crocodiles, diverse plains animals and colourful birdlife.