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Colin Summersgill
ZA
Visited:
April 2011
Reviewed: Nov 22, 2011
Email Colin Summersgill | 35-50 years of age
A large park with different game across the very varied habitat.
Scenery is immense with the park dropping from 1450 masl at the mountain tops to 340 m where the Pongola River leaves the park. Habitats include thornveld, grasslands, river valley bush and cliffs.
You can virtually get lost in your own little valleys looking for wildlife. Some roads are sealed, but given the nature of the terrain this does make life easier.
Birding is excellent, the varied habitat and altitude allowing a large variety of species to make the park their home.
Airboat Afrika
ZA
Visited:
May 2011
Reviewed: Oct 16, 2011
35-50 years of age
The KZN parks enjoy some of the most spectacular scenery anywhere in SA.
Robert Styppa
DE
Visited:
May 2015
Reviewed: Jul 19, 2015
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Out of season definitely a nice park to visit !
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The only alternative is to book a game drive, which luckily is not very expensive but done in big game "buses" for over 12 people. What is unbeatable in the Camp is the friendliness of the people. And the scenery in the park is worth to go.
Marleen
Didn't see a lot of the wildlife.
I have bad memories of Ithala because while camping in their lovely rustic campsite we had a hail storm with stones the size of golf balls which wrote off my car as well, as two caravans belonging to the rangers. The bird life was quite good and there was limited game.
Ron Moon
AU
Visited:
April 2009
Reviewed: Jul 4, 2011
50-65 years of age
Not an abundance of wildlife and its too small for anything long term
jepi482
Visited:
August 2007
Reviewed: Jan 6, 2012
disappointing
I travelled many years all over South Africa. I made a one day visit to Ithala game reserve by driving my own 4x4 car.
I was very desappointed except the scenic landscapes and some intresting 4x4 loops.
Wildlife is rather spare; there are no great predators. I drived sometimes long moments without seeing any animal ;when I was lucky I saw mostly isolated ones. Ithala is certainly a lovely place for week-ends in nature as the South african people like but sure not a place for tourist comming to SA for meeting games