Limpopo · South Africa
Where the Bushveld remembers you.
Family-run since 1997. The Marula Game Lodges stretch across 24 700 acres with Matlabas River views in the Limpopo Valley — malaria-free. Ethical hunting, slow eco-tourism, and off-grid stays under the southern sky.
Three pursuits, one land
A reserve built around respect.
Game Breeding & Rewilding
Decades-long stewardship of kudu, sable and roan — bred in their natural habitat and returned to ground they once roamed.
DiscoverSustainable Utilization
Fair-chase hunting on a strict quota — the model that funds the land, the herds and the people who protect them.
DiscoverEco-Tourism
Guided game drives, bush walks and starlit dinners. The wild, at your pace.
DiscoverOur story · Est. 1997 · Three generations
Three decades in the Bushveld.
The Burger family established Marula Game in 1997 in the Limpopo Valley, twenty kilometres south of the Botswana border. Three generations on, owner and outfitter Chris Burger still personally hosts every safari — across 24,700 acres and the Marula Game Lodges. You arrive as a guest. You leave as family.
Read about MarulaWhere you'll sleep
Marula Game Lodges
Where the Bushveld becomes home.
Exclusive sole-occupancy tented luxury on Antwerp
Buffalo Tented Camp
$1,000
per person / night
Four private chalets on Vaalbosch Hoek — ideal for groups
Leadwood Lodge
$400
per person / night
Classic South African farmhouse on Haakdoornpan — family ideal
Haakdoring Lodge
$400
per person / night
Close-to-nature tented bush experience on Antwerp
Tents on Antwerp
$350
per person / night
The heart of the farm — thatched boma, pool & open-air dining
Marula Lodge
$450
per person / night
Before you arrive
The questions guests ask us most.
Honest answers to the practical — and the difficult — questions, so you know exactly what to expect when you arrive on the Matlabas.
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