Isimangaliso Wetlands Full Day Tour: Boat Cruise and Wildlife Game Drive from Durban
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Experience the beauty of Isimangaliso Wetlands Park on a full day tour from Durban. Take a thrilling boat cruise to spot hippos and crocodiles, then embark on a wildlife game drive to see elephants, zebras, giraffes, and more.
Duration: 10 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Saint Lucia Estuary - Go on a 2 hour Hippo & Croc Boat Cruise in the St Lucia Estuary. Discover, Witness and Observe Hippo’s, Nile Crocodiles and Hundreds of bird species on our Hippo & Croc Boat Cruise while in St Lucia. This 2 hour Boat Cruise Safari gets you close up to the residents of the estuary.
  • iSimangaliso Wetland Park - At Isimangaliso Wetlands Park we go on a self drive game drive. We see many different types of animals here.

iSimangaliso Wetland Park is a huge protected area along the coast of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province. The park’s centrepiece is the vast Lake St. Lucia, home to large numbers of hippos, crocodiles, pelicans and flamingos. Elephants, giraffes and leopards inhabit the grasslands and forests of the nearby Western Shores and Charters Creek areas.

  • Durban - We return to Durban in late afternoon arriving back at around 6pm
What's Included
  • Self drive game drive
  • Hippo & Croc Boat Cruise
  • Visit to St Lucia Estuary
  • Wildlife viewing: elephants, cheetahs, zebras, giraffes, kudus, impalas, elands, and more
  • Exploring Isimangaliso Wetlands Park
Additional Information

The stunning Isimangaliso Wetlands Park, with its status as a World Heritage Site, is truly a sight to behold. We first explore the St Lucia Estuary in a 2-hour Hippo & Croc Boat Cruise.

Venture, Sightsee and Study Hippo’s, Nile Crocodiles and Numerous bird species while on our Hippo & Croc Boat Cruise in St Lucia. This 2-hour nautical journey provides an intimate viewing of the estuary’s wildlife.

Subsequent to our time on the water, we immerse ourselves in the wilderness of one of the game reserves within the Isimangaliso Wetlands Park. Here, through a self-guided safari drive, we encounter myriad wildlife including elephants, zebras, giraffes, kudus, and more.

Location
Saint Lucia Estuary
Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park,
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Katherine_r
Dec 4, 2023
Full Day Isimangaliso Wetlands Game - African Sun Safaris - TERRIBLE - This was the worst trip I have ever done. African Sun Safaris did not deliver. We were a group of 4, paying $1200 AUD for the day trip. We started off at 6am for the Full Day Isimangaliso Wetlands Game Drive well our guide and driver had never been there and so we went the wrong way and got lost driving for over 41/2 hours to get there instead of 3 hrs cramped up with 4 other people and the guide and driver 10 in total in a small van. When we did get to a gate park it took another 20 mins to pay. We drove around for another 60 minutes in the park and did not see 1 animal only stopping for a 5 min toilet break. We then had to leave the park and drive for another hour to the River cruise. Again we went the wrong way and had to go back more time sitting squashed up in a van. Finally got to the cruise boat which was good and only reason it was good, it was run by someone else and we were able to move around. During this cruise we learnt that we should of entered the park at the gate at the opposite end to the cruise dock where we probably would of seen animals as you could often see them from the boat. This was a lovely little township with restaurants. No time for any lunch as by the time the cruise finished, we then had to drive another 3 hrs back to Durban all squashed up again. An absolute rip off $300 AUD per person. I asked for a partial refund as they did not provide what they advertised and we just drove around in a van for 10+ hrs mostly lost - but no!!! DO NOT BOOK with African Sun Safaris it is an absolute waist of money.
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