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Bonamanzi Game Park offers you an array of facilities and accommodation to suit most needs. Our accommodation ranges from our comfortable 3-star chalets on the Lalapanzi camp to our 3-star luxury, private Dinizulu camp. Then there are always our well-known self-catering tree houses where one is really in touch with nature and able to completely unwind. Bonamanzi also caters for you whether you feel like doing business in the bush with our Conference and Event facilities to having the wedding of your dreams in the African wild. Whatever your need, we at Bonamanzi will do our best to make sure your stay is one to remember.

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Lalapanzi Camp / Tree houses and Lodges / Luxury Dinizulu Camp

Camping / Dining at Bonamanzi / Weddings

 

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Lalapanzi Camp at Bonamanzi Game Park

At Lalapanzi it’s quite common to find a herd of impala sleeping outside your cottages and skittish warthog families amble around the camps all day long. Guests can watch birds and crocs from a wonderfully relaxing viewing lounge built over the dam. Lalapanzi can accommodate 52 guests and consists of 26 thatched en-suite, air conditioned chalets, all with 2 beds with private verandas. Included are family unit style chalets with inter-linking doors. The camp is situated around the picturesque Lalapanzi watering hole, with some of the units cradled by the endangered sand forest, all within easy walking distance from the Lalapanzi restaurant and swimming pool facilities.

A communal lounge and bar area raised on stilts overlooking a picturesque dam provides guests with excellent bird viewing opportunities. View the nimble Jacana bird close-up as it walks around the lily pads in the dam, or cool during the hot summers days in the Lalapanzi swimming pool. There is also a children’s play ground which keeps the youngsters busy as this ‘family friendly’ camp.




Tree Houses and Lodges at Bonamanzi Game Park

 

Enjoy the adventure of sleeping in a tree house. Nothing beats being lulled by nature – waking to birdsong or watching bush babies scuttling in the trees at night. Bonamanzi offers 2 bedded tree houses and 4 bedded family units, all air-conditioned and complete with en-suite bathrooms, fully equipped kitchen, barbeque area and verandas.

The two-person, self-catering air-conditioned units have a fully equipped kitchen and living area with an en-suite bathroom. The raised sundeck offers guests a panoramic view of the birds amongst the trees and the animals that roam freely underneath the novel tree units. For newly weds a secluded tree house can be decorated and furnished for the couple’s first night after the wedding.

Friends and family groups can book the totally private Game Lodge with its own pool or Tree Lodge with its spectacular views over False Bay, both of which sleep 6 comfortably.

The self-catering Tree Lodge consists of three 2-bed tree houses joined together along with its own private living area with sundeck, braai area, fully equipped kitchen and satellite TV. The Tree Lodge has spectacular views amongst the tree tops where rich bird life and game frequent the watering hole in sight of the deck.

The Game Lodge is very popular with families or holiday groups. This lodge comfortably provides self-catering accommodation for 6 people with a fully equipped kitchen and satellite TV. The camp comprises of two twin-bed, air conditioned bedrooms and 2 single rooms with ceiling fans. The Game Lodge has it’s own private swimming pool where you will often find the warthogs and tame species of buck grazing.

 


Luxury Dinizulu Camp at Bonamanzi Game Park

Located off the beaten track this luxury air conditioned self-catering unit offers accommodation for 6 people in three separate thatched huts with en-suite bathrooms.

The ‘more than comfortable’ living area offers a spacious lounge and dining area with satellite TV, a built in bar, fully equipped modern kitchen and outdoors entertainment deck and braai area. The veranda is situated overlooking the Dinizulu lake where your will quite likely see a fish eagle circling and where you can sit and watch the sun set over the bush. The sparkling pool provides a relief during the long summer days. Dinizulu Lodge operates on a self-catering basis but optional catering can be booked if guest may prefer to enjoy meals at the Lalapanzi Restaurant.

 


Camping at Bonamanzi Game Park

Our Wilderness caravan and camping site allows you to be part of the wilderness being situated in the bush amongst the birds and safe game. These spacious sites offer superb ablutions, hot and cold running water and 220V power supply points. There are communal cleaning and braai areas for guests, with each campsite catering for a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 6 people.

Backpackers are welcome to come and stay in out new backpackers lodge with a fully fitted kitchen and bathrooms.


Dining at Bonamanzi Game Park

Roughly translated from Zulu, Lalapanzi means ‘come and relax here’. At the Lalapanzi camp you will find the ‘Out of Africa’ style Lalapanzi restaurant which offers a sumptuous buffet to cater for all tastes. Dinner bed and breakfast is included in the rate for those who book to stay in the Lalapanzi camp but the restaurant is open to bookings from anyone staying in self-catering and the general public. At the Lalapanzi restaurant a light lunch menu is also available.
One of the main attractions of the Lalapanzi camp is the simply stunning viewing lounge built on stilts overlooking a large watering hole where you can enjoy birds and crocs. Sitting there at sunset with a gin and tonic listening to the deafening sound of frogs is a moment you will never forget.

Candlelit bush braais in the middle of the indigenous forest near Dinizulu Dam are a real treat. Enjoy crisp linen and silverware, bubbling potjiekos, good wine and local venison delicacies all served by candlelight. Bush braais are normally on Saturday nights and by arrangement on weekdays, weather permitting. Bush braais are quite often arranged together with a night drive.



Weddings at Bonamanzi Game Park

Bonamanzi has the facilities and setting for any couple’s perfect wedding day. Whether you want a bush-style reception or a smarter affair in our Lalapanzi Restaurant, Bonamanzi will cater for your needs. Wedding couples can exchange vows in a charming thatched viewing lounge or on a picturesque island over looking a waterhole, or even gliding down the scenic river Hluhluwe. Bonamanzi’s natural canvas offers exquisite back drops for photographs and newly weds can honeymoon in a romantic tree house in solitude. The restaurant can cater for up to 100 seated guests for a reception dinner and entertainment.

For wedding enquiries please contact Group Reservations by email, res@bonamanzi.co.za, or phone the office directly.





Should you wish to experience a one of a kind wedding at Bonamanzi, there are a range of options:
Exchange vows in the Lalapanzi viewing lounge with the watering hole as a backdrop for unusual photographs, or hold the ceremony in the middle of the bush for an equally memorable wedding album. For your reception you can choose a day time affair in the Out of Africa styled restaurant or opt for a candlelight bush braai next to our Dinizulu Dam.


 
     
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