Tarkuni offers game drives in open-sided, canopied safari vehicles with a personal field guide and tracker to explore the stunning Kalahari landscape.
Conservation at Tarkuni
Tswalu is justly proud of the success of its ongoing conservation projects, with the founder population of 7 000 animals having grown to more than 12 000in the space of 5 years. From the back of an open sided safari vehicle, from the saddle or on foot and, with the help of your experienced field guides and trackers, learn how to spot and track like a professional.
Kalahari Activities
Horse riding is available for mountain rides, sunset dune rides and day rides alongside a trained guide. Bush walks led by experienced rangers and trackers giving guests an insight into the local vegetation, bush medicines, cosmetics and hunting skills of the San People skills.
Hot air balloon rides allow you to look over the Kalahari observing the interaction of the various life forms.
Wildlife Safari
Night and day game drives in open safari vehicles, tracking the Desert Black Rhino with experienced rangers, sundowners on the dunes as you watch the spectacular Kalahari sunset, and bird watching.
As part of the game drives, guests will be able to visit the Mokwalo site (Tswana for 'engravings'), renowned for its Bushman history.
Rock Art Sites
Scattered across Tswalu's landscape are petroglyphs which are engravings carved or pecked directly into rock by San-speaking peoples, including the |xam, who once called this terrain home. Using hammerstones and chisels, they worked the stone surface to reveal the lighter layer beneath, leaving marks that endure thousands of years later.
Every engraving site at Tswalu is found near water and this is no accident. For the San, waterholes were inherited places, passed down through families across generations. They were sacred yet dangerous: gathering points for predators and strangers alike, and thresholds where the boundary between the living world and the spirit world was believed to grow thin.
You can experience these ancient rock art sites accompanied by a knowledgable Tswalu Kalahari guide.
