accommodation

Choose from the lodge, the Bush Camp or a variety of Camp sites available. The lodges each have a swimming pool available for guests.

Limpopo River Lodge is situated along the Limpopo riverbank, allowing for interaction with bird and wildlife that frequents the river.

Camp Sites are based on the Limpopo River under big , shady trees, or at the Tree Top dam.

FOOD catering

For self-catering, our kitchens are all fully equipped with cooking utensils, crockery, cutlery and refrigeration - you need only bring your food and drinks.

Our friendly and helpful staff will service the accommodation units and kitchens – ensuring a completely relaxed stay.

Full catering options are available, including all meals, teas, coffees, cakes and two exciting, guided game viewing drives per day.

game viewing

Discover over 20,000 hectares of vast, rolling, unspoiled land, boasting many exquisite Baobab trees amongst scattered koppies, thick Mopane bush and a variety of indigenous trees.

Animals that can be found include elephants, leopard, lion, zebra, wildebeest, kudu, eland, warthog as well as nearly 400 species of birds.

Explore the area “self-drive”, in your own vehicle, or book our game drives, with guided tours in an open 4x4 vehicle, driven by a highly experienced professional guide, leading you to the best places to find wildlife.

participation / volunteering

An experience of a lifetime! The ‘Wild At Tuli’ conservation project’s aim is to provide a safe, habitable area for wildlife.

Facilitated by two unique ladies, who share a spirit of adventure, with an undying passion for the magic of the African Wilderness and its wildlife. This project has been running since 2011 and has welcomed a couple of thousand visitors eager to help.

We work in partnership with a number of organisations who facilitate local and international groups joining the project.

How we work

Collaboration

We own our own Reserve in the Central Tuli Block where we run a camp called Motswiri Camp and then we also run Tourism operations on Limpopo River Lodge and Mopani Lodge in collaboration with the owners. We welcome all tourists to these destinations and give you a sense of true Africa and the wilderness.

Conservation

We are passionate about conservation and all things wild and part of what we do is invlve our volunteer program in helping any of the Reserves in the Central Tuli Block, should they need our help. This could be anti-poaching, helping with alien plant removal, maintaining the backline veterinary fence, protecting species of trees, conducting game census - whatever anyone requires we are happy to get involved.

Community Support

We support our local communities in a variety of ways including employing all our staff locally.

We take our guests to the local villages to experience village life, visit the Rock paintings in the area ,learn to weave bracelets the traditional way or watch a performance of traditional dancing by the local Zebras Dance group. All these activities are paid for and bring much needed income to local people.

2007 - todate

cause for Conservation

Dr Helena Fitchat and Mrs Judi Gounaris, owners of Wild At Tuli Safaris are two unique women who share a spirit of adventure and undying passion for the magic of the African Wilderness and its wildlife.

As Trustees of one of the biggest Wildlife Rehabilitation Centres in South Africa both,  having spent decades saving wildlife, realised that the only way to really make a difference is to preserve habitat.  In 2007 Judi and Helena purchased a large tract of wilderness in Botswana’s ‘Big Five’ Tuli Block. Since they dedicated this land to wildlife it has become a safe haven for all wildlife passing through. This is the legacy they will leave to conservation.

You will not find anyone more knowledgeable than Helena who has spent over 30 years on and off in the wilderness. She is an expert tracker, has crossed the Kalahari desert on her own and lived with the Bushmen for a year.  She is also a pilot, a biologist specialising in Animal Behaviour (for which she obtained her PhD) , and she single-handedly navigated her way through the vast Okavango Delta in a leaking boat and survived!  For 10 years she was the Operations Director of The Centre for Rehabilitation Of Wildlife (CROW) in Durban, South Africa during which time an estimated 40,000 animals will have been admitted.  Helena is a mine of information and will enthral you with her fascinating stories about life, adventure and the world of wildlife.

Judi worked for more than 30 years in the corporate IT world and always volunteered her spare time to help animals.  Apart from numerous creatures needing help, she has looked after baby cheetah, helped Helena rear two lion cubs who were featured on Animal Planet  and spent several years with two Cape Clawless otters that learnt to swim and fish before being  released back into the wild.  Aside from the lions cubs, one of her favourite animals is the bush baby and she has hand-reared a number of these rare little creatures.    For more than 8 years Judi was a Committee Member and latterly Chairperson of The Centre for Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW) in Durban South Africa.  

Helena and Judi have spent the last few years working and travelling together and reared and released many animals back into the wild.  They have experienced some incredible adventures travelling in Botswana. These include sleeping on top of a vehicle surrounded by 26 lions,  sitting amongst a herd of 300 elephants, being stranded for days in the middle of nowhere because their vehicle broke down, tracking elusive leopards, chasing hyena through camp because they had pinched their wine, and fishing in a mokoro (a type of canoe made out of a large tree stump) surrounded by hippos and crocodiles.

Wild at Tuli Safaris is their way of sharing what they have experienced with others.