Royal Legend Safari Lodge Nature & Wildlife

Nature & Wildlife

The Timbavati Nature Reserve came into existence in July 1956, when a group of conservationist minded people who owned game farms on the Western boundary of the Kruger National Park, came together to form the Timbavati Association. The size of the reserve covers about 60000 hectares of pristine African Bush, part of the world famous Greater Kruger National Park. The Kruger itself is a further 2 million hectares in size, which is about the same size as Israel or Wales. In the early 1990's the boundary fence between the Kruger and the adjacent private reserves namely, Timbavati, Sabi Sands, Klaserie, Umbabaat, and Manyaleti was removed to create the Greater Kruger Park, covering an area of 2.2 million hectares. The Greater Kruger has been zoned into 35 different landscape types. A landscape is defines as an area with a specific geomorphology climate, soil and vegetation, together with the associated fauna. Royal Legend Safari Lodge and Spa falls into a landscape zoned as: Combretum SPP (Bushwillow), / Colophospermum Mopane Woodland. The underlying rock is mainly Granite and Gneiss intersected by numerous intrusions of Dolerite. The terrain is undulating with Sandy soils. The altitude varies between 300 meters and 500 meters. The climate is temperate with hot summers and cool winter with frost as an exception in the low - lying areas.