Going on a boat cruise on Lake Jozini can have its challenges – whether to see if you can spot some elephants or to go tiger fishing.   Sometimes, Lake Jozini, as Pongolapoort Dam is known as in Eswatini, can be flat, smooth and like a mirror.  Other times, the wind can blow gently and a

TREES AT ROYAL JOZINI : THE KNOB THORN We are heading towards the end of August and the bush at Royal Jozini is covered in shades of beige & brown  –  the trees look stark & bare –  except for one tree, the Knob Thorn. Knob Thorns flower between the months of August to September

When you think about going into the bush, do your thoughts turn to creepy crawlies, thoughts that you will be bored as there will be nothing to do, or hectic hiking trails and roughing it and that it will all be really stressful and bad for your health? Think again!  Firstly, a trip into nature

Royal Jozini Grasslands – nature’s treasure. When you think of grass, do you groan inside as you think of having to mow that unruly lawn in your backyard? Grab your mental remote, switch off that ‘home channel’ and spend a moment with us, poring over the sheer wonder of earth’s miracle cover: grass! Did you

Lake Jozini Information The Pongolapoort Dam, which stretches northwards into Swaziland is surrounded by Royal Jozini Private Game Reserve and is known as “Lake Jozini”.  The game reserve gate is just 9kms from the border of South Africa in the Kingdom of eSwatini, formerly known as Swaziland. King Mswati III of Swaziland changed the name