Jembisa Bush Home
Six-bedroom bush home on a private Waterberg reserve with campouts and river-walk safaris
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Built as a family home and retaining that atmosphere, Jembisa Bush Home sits within a three-thousand-hectare private reserve in the Waterberg plateau of Limpopo. The reserve holds savannah plains, syringa woodland, riverine forest, rock faces, and seven kilometres of the Palala river. Six en-suite bedrooms accommodate 12 adults, plus a children's bunkroom for four. Five bedrooms lie within the main house; a sixth occupies a loft-style garden suite with a small kitchenette. Each room has mosquito netting, robes, and amenities. A heated pool, floodlit tennis court, games room, and library furnish the main house. Wi-Fi reaches all rooms.
Guides lead morning and afternoon game drives in open four-wheel-drive vehicles across plains, through woodland, along cliff roads, and over river crossings. Leopard, giraffe, hippo, crocodile, zebra, wildebeest, and kudu range across the reserve. Night drives spotlight brown hyena, aardvark, civet cat, porcupine, and bushbaby. Walking safaris track animals on foot; river walks follow the Palala to encounter hippo, monitor lizard, python, and otter. Campouts sleep guests under the stars beside a fire. Mountain-bike routes cross the reserve at varying distances. Visits to bushman rock paintings and iron-age village sites run throughout the week. Massage treatments use locally grown essential oils. Over four hundred bird species have been recorded. Three chefs prepare meals from seasonal produce and the organic kitchen garden, served on the verandah, in the bush, or around the campfire. Babysitting is complimentary. The reserve is malaria-free.
Guides lead morning and afternoon game drives in open four-wheel-drive vehicles across plains, through woodland, along cliff roads, and over river crossings. Leopard, giraffe, hippo, crocodile, zebra, wildebeest, and kudu range across the reserve. Night drives spotlight brown hyena, aardvark, civet cat, porcupine, and bushbaby. Walking safaris track animals on foot; river walks follow the Palala to encounter hippo, monitor lizard, python, and otter. Campouts sleep guests under the stars beside a fire. Mountain-bike routes cross the reserve at varying distances. Visits to bushman rock paintings and iron-age village sites run throughout the week. Massage treatments use locally grown essential oils. Over four hundred bird species have been recorded. Three chefs prepare meals from seasonal produce and the organic kitchen garden, served on the verandah, in the bush, or around the campfire. Babysitting is complimentary. The reserve is malaria-free.