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Rates include breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus two game drives daily in open Land Rovers led by professional rangers. Morning and afternoon drives depart into the reserve to track elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo, leopard, giraffe, zebra, black wildebeest, cheetah, and antelope. Night drives reveal nocturnal species. Walking safaris follow game on foot. A stone chapel built in the nineteenth century stands in the garden. The cellar bar occupies a stone-walled room below the house. High tea is served on the veranda each afternoon before the evening drive. A swimming pool sits in indigenous gardens. You can hear birdsong from the terrace. The shearing shed, built in 1930 and converted in 2001, now operates as Shearers Lodge with four en-suite rooms, dinner, and breakfast. The reserve lies 60 kilometres from Port Elizabeth on the N2 towards Grahamstown. Addo Elephant National Park is 30 kilometres away. 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One family tent adds a second bedroom with twin beds and a separate toilet. The main lodge holds a lounge, a bar, a restaurant, and a pool deck that looks over game-filled plains. Spa treatments are arranged on-site.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo game drives depart daily in open four-wheel-drive vehicles. Rangers guide morning and late-afternoon drives tracking lion, elephant, rhino, buffalo, and leopard, alongside cheetah, giraffe, zebra, and plains game across wooded valleys, open grassland, and river systems. The reserve is malaria-free. Guided bush walks with a qualified trails guide last two to three hours and require guests to be sixteen or older. Horse trails accept intermediate and experienced riders with 18 hours' notice. Reception sits at the colonial Reed Valley Inn; staff transfer you into the reserve from there. The land has been held by the founding family since 1898, when Jabez Weeks purchased the farm and named it Reed Valley. 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Back at the lodge, four suites of stone and thatch step down the slope, each built for two and fitted with its own balcony over the bush. Indoor showers face the view rather than a wall, and each room has a freestanding bath, his-and-her basins, a coffee station, mini-bar and safe. Wi-Fi is complimentary throughout. The lounge and dining room open onto a shared terrace and deck, where meals and sundowners run on to whatever is drinking at the waterhole below. It is a small, quiet setup, capped at eight guests. No children under 14 are allowed, which keeps the terrace and the drives geared entirely to adults. Birdwatching and stargazing fill the gaps between game viewing, and beyond the reserve, guides arrange trips to the coast, historical towns and hiking trails inland. 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