Welcome To Wild Horizon

~ An African Adventure Holiday ~

Wild Horizon is a small personalised holiday company that specialises in taking small groups on what is typically a real South African experience.

Our mission is
to create the relaxing
holiday experience as close
to the real Africa as
is possible.

We ensure that our clients experience places that are not frequented by other tourists and many of the places we visit are not easily accessible even to local holiday makers. The trip does this by combining visits to remote little known game reserves, situated in huge conservation areas within the Eastern Cape, where we view game with much of the area entirely to ourselves.

We spend time on privately owned game farms, where we do 4x4 trails through countryside barely touched by man. We walk and stalk the game to get amongst them, enjoy quality fresh water fly fishing, and search for hidden bushman paintings.

After this, we travel to the spectacular Wild Coast, which lies within the Eastern Cape borders, and stay in beautiful accommodation overlooking some of the most undeveloped remote coastline in the world.

Here we do boat trips to sea and up mangrove lagoons where we can view dolphins, turtles, participate in deep-sea fishing, estuary fly fishing or just soak in the experience. At all times we experience the local Xhosa culture on a first hand basis.

Animals That May Be Seen

Blue Wildebeest, Black Wildebeest, Zebra, Buffalo, Springbok, Duiker, Giraffe, Impala, Red Hartebeest, Steenbok, Warthog, White Rhino, Bontebok, Bushbuck, Baboon, Dassie, Elephant, Kudu, Eland, Ostrich, Waterbuck, Mountain Reedbuck, Black Backed Jackal, Mongoose, Porcupine, Blesbuck.

Areas To Be Visited

The Greater Fish River Conservancy Area

The Reserves and Conservancy areas start with the Greater Fish River Conservancy Area, which is 45,000 ha in size, and boasts excellent game viewing and a rich historical heritage.

This was the area that witnessed the frontier wars between the Xhosa people and the English settlers. A number of Forts used during this war are situated within the Conservancy area. This area is situated between the towns of Fort Beaufort, Alice and Grahamstown.

Black Wildebeest © Wild Horizon

Conservancy Area In The Foothills Of The Winterberg Mountain Range

The second area we visit is a Conservancy area of 16,000 ha in the foothills of the Winterberg mountain range, which also boasts excellent game viewing, spectacular mountain scenery and bird watching.

We travel to small (90,000ha), little known game reserves which are rarely visited, but which carry most of the Big Five and most of the plains game. Here we walk among herds of game, in the shadow of giraffe, close to rhino or elephant or sit in complete remoteness and grass waiting for elusive kudu or shy bushbuck. The game viewing is excellent, and the best part of it all is that it is not shared by other visitors.

Bultfontein Private Game Farm

Our Game Farm, Bultfontein, is situated on the boundary between the Eastern Cape Karoo and the Southern point of the Drakensberg, in the Lady Grey area.

Our game farm is special in that it offers extreme remoteness and solitude, mixed with game viewing, massive altitude changes, splendid mountain scenery and challenging 4x4 routes.

Here, we visit  bushman art unknown to the outside world and watch the rare Black Eagle hunting the edges of the cliff for a careless “dassie” (Rock Rabbit). This is also an excellent  freshwater fly-fishing venue offering not only Trout, but also the much sought after Yellow fish.

Wild Coast © Wild Horizon

The Wild Coast Of South Africa

The Coastal area which we visit is a completely undeveloped area where few people have access to accommodation. The coastline has spectacular areas of rocky cliffs, secluded pocket beaches, long deserted beaches, rock pools teeming with marine life and beautiful mangrove lagoons.

Activities in this area include excellent bird watching, swimming, fishing in the estuaries, off the rocks or, weather permitting, world class deep-sea fishing. Offshore life is breathtaking, with the opportunity to view at close quarters dolphins, turtles and during season the famous “sardine run” as it shoals up the African coast.

This area is also rich in gastronomical sea food delights, as it has abundant supplies of crayfish, prawns and oysters as well as, if we are lucky excellent fresh fish.

The Xhosa Nation

The Wild Coast area we travel through is largely inhabited by the Xhosa Tribe and is the centre of the birthplace of Mr Nelson Mandela. We will travel through the village of Qunu, which is the home village of Mr Mandela, and pass by his current residence. In Mthatha we will visit the Nelson Mandela Museum.

A large amount of time will be spent travelling through traditional Xhosa villages where we witness Xhosa traditions first hand.

We then travel through tribal trust land down to our beautiful remote coastal lodge that offers a coastal holiday like no other. We watch Whales while Dolphins pass by in schools of hundreds, experience brilliant deep-sea fishing and enjoy fresh fish and crayfish meals. Activities include trips on a mangrove lagoon, swimming and diving, deep-sea fishing or fly fishing for those interested and just enjoying the remote beaches and rocky coves.