Month: Jul 2020

Abelana Game Reserve’s beautiful lions really do rule the roost when it comes to wildlife sightings logged by our team of support staff who are out in the field every day, making sure the reserve is kept safe and secure during lockdown. It’s fair to say they get the lion’s share of the attention and Read More

For Bill Drew and Sasha Maggs, every day at Abelana Game Reserve is an adventure. We may not have guests at the moment but patrolling the reserve and continuing the important task of keeping  the reserve’s wildlife familiar with game viewers is all in a day’s work for this intrepid Abelana River Lodge guiding duo. Read More

One of the things that sets Abelana River Lodge apart is its amazing food, thanks to head chef Juan Louis Kruger, known affectionately as “JL”. Born in Germiston and raised in Boksburg on Johannesburg’s busy East Rand, 28-year-old JL fell in love with food aged 12 when he used to help his mum in the Read More

It’s been a bumper month for leopard sightings here at Abelana Game Reserve, with a number of these beautiful big cats spotted close to Abelana River Lodge in the north of the reserve and down in the south around Abelana Safari Camp. Throughout lockdown a skeleton team of staff have been out driving the reserve Read More