Phinda Private Game Reserve


Phinda Private Game Reserve, formerly known as Phinda Resource Reserve, is a 170 km² private game reserve situated in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa between the Mkuze Game Reserve and the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park. Formed in 1991, this ethnically named reserve means "return to the wild". Phinda has seven distinct ecosystems with palm savannah and mountain bush to rare sand forest and dense thornveld.

Fauna

inhabiting this reserve include elephant, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, Cape buffalo, hippopotamus, southern white rhinoceros, spotted hyena, cheetah and leopard.

Lodges