Hluhluwe-Imfolozi

Highlights

Hluhluwe-iMfolozi National Park is located 280 km north of Durban and is one of the most scenic parks in South Africa and the flagship park of Kwazulu-Natal province. The entire area is state-owned and can be explored in your own rental car. Guided safari tours in open jeeps can be booked with a ranger in the private game reserves bordering the park to the north. Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park is one of the oldest parks in Africa, originally created in the 1890s as a sanctuary for a last tiny population of southern white rhino. The animals were saved from extinction here. Rhinos are now very common in the park.

Landscape

The main habitat of the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi is the Grassland savannah.

The park offers a beautiful landscape with mostly hilly terrain, valleys, forests and grassy plains. Three rivers flow in the valleys, the most notable being the Hluhluwe River with its series of waterholes. Most of the vegetation is very dense, making wildlife viewing a little more difficult.

Entrance gate