Jobedi Game Reserve Vaalwater

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Main Lodge (Towels provided, please bring own swimming towels)
The Main Lodge houses the Reception, Games Area, DSTV & Ladies Bar. 16-Seater Conference facilities are available as well as a 480-seater auditorium. The auditorium is often used for game auctions together with the adjacent game pens, the pens have been reckoned as one of the biggest and best designed in South Africa.

Chalets
Situated in the gardens of the Main Lodge, the two Chalets provide 'home from home' accomodation for those guests a bit nervous to stray too far from civilization, but wanting to relax in beautiful surroundings. Each Chalet has three bedrooms, either one or two bathrooms, fully equipped kitchen, dining area, lounge and screened veranda. A private boma with braai facilities to ensure the best of Jobedi atmosphere. All the units are serviced daily.

Rock Cottages
Five thatched rock structured Cottages spaciously seperated in the thick bushes around the swimming pool at the Main Lodge. Each Cottage accommodates two guests with en-suite bathroom and shower, bar fridge and kettle and basic kitchen equipment. Guests can enjoy their own braai in the boma adjoining the Cottage. All the units are serviced daily.

Rondavels
Four thatched rondavels tastefully furnished situated close to the main lodge. Each rondavel accommodates two guests with fully equipped kitchen, en-suite bathroom with shower and private boma ideal for a couple or a group fo friends wishing to be together but still have privacy when quiet time is needed. Rondawels serviced daily.

Camping Site
Camping sites are available with sharing ablution facilities. The ablution facilities consist of three blocks. Two of these ablution blocks offers hot water while the other two offers cold water. Electricity points are available at the three ablution blocks.

Jobedi Game Reserve is the only game reserve in the area that offers guests, the ideal spot for e.g Range Rover and Pajero owners to enjoy their vehicles and accompanying camping equipment. A fee per vehicle per stay is charged to drive on the main roads and a different fee per vehicle per day is charged to drive the 4x4 trails.

Bush Camps (Linen provided, please bring own towels)
Bushpig
A thatch, double-storey cottage 11km from the Main Lodge. Two bedrooms, bathroom and fully equiped kitchen on the ground floor and one large room upstairs with single bunks. Enjoy a romantic night in your private boma under the canopy of a fig tree.

Impala
This quaint cockeyed thatched house is situated near one of the riverstreams. It has three bedrooms, bathroom with bath, fully equipped kitchen and a screened verandah. Cook around the fire while enjoying the outdoors.

This unit is ideal for little ones as they cannot get off the verandah if screen door latched and is equally enjoyable for Granny and Grandpa to sit and relax watching the animals, while the family exert themselves around the reserve.

The Village
hree cottages, 9km from the Main Lodge overlooking a waterhole, provide an excellent venue for groups or families wishing to be together but still having privacy when bedtime comes. The cottages are named after trees of the area: Wild Fig, Wild Syringa and Vaalbos.

Two cottages have two bedrooms and bunk beds in the lounge, bathroom with shower and fully equipped kitchen. Wild Fig has three bedrooms. Each unit also boast its own boma and braai facility.

Klipspringer
Our best kept secret!! Hidden away in the mountains and off the beaten track, this enchanting two bedroom stone cottage with fully equipped kitchen and private boma, wil guarantee the perfect secluded weekend getaway for those wishing to spoil that someone special in their lives.

Palala
For the budget conscious large family who wants the comforts of home this charming four bedroom (10 sleeper) renovated farm house will be the perfect choice. The peace and tranquility of the setting will ensure a memorable yet affordable break from the city life.

General information:
* Check in time:14h30-18h30
* No check in after 20h00, unless prior arrangement
* Check out time:11h00
* No quad bikes or any other motorbikes will be allowed through the main gate
* All general Nature Reserve rules applicable.
* Chalets and Rock cottages around the Main Lodge will be serviced daily, this does not include washing of dishes.
* PLEASE NOTE: Restaurant closed (Restaurant is only open upon prior requests and/or arrangement. Booking in advance is essential.)

Various restaurants close by in the region of 10km's from Jobedi. Please do not hesitate to direct any enquiries to us.

Greetings from the Waterberg,South Africa!

Things to do at Jobedi

Game Drives
Jobedi is one of the only reserves in this area which offer self-drive options to our guests. Enjoy our reserve in the comfort of your own vehicle for an hour or the whole day!!

To See
- 28 Species of Game (Plains Game, crocodile and free-roaming Leopard)
- 260 Species of Birds

At Main Camp
- Table Tennis
- Pool Table
- DSTV
- Swimming Pool
- Birdwatching

At Dam
- Fishing (own gear)

Hiking Trails
We have short hiking routes near most of the bush cottages for you to do on your own hike.

Melkrivier 4X4 Trail
The 2 x 4 Route is fun for the whole family and can even be done in 4X2 high clearance vehicles. The 4 x 4 Route is for the more adventurous and experienced drivers with differential lock vehicles. No less than two vehicles should go out together for assistance purposes. Our 4 x 4 Route is rated between 3-4 out of 5. Walking the difficult parts will save you a hefty recovery fee.

In the area
:- Mama Tau White Lion Project ± 1½ hours drive from Jobedi/Booking essential
- Horseriding
- Eventiera Wildlife Park
– Restaurant & Big Cats viewing including tigers
- Game Auctions at Eventiera

The Jobedi Leopards
(Leopard research not operational at the moment due to Leopard team leaving.)

Seeing a Leopard in the wild is perhaps the most wonderful experience one could ever have. Draped over a tree branch or crossing a road. They are arguably the most beautiful of the cat species. Killing machines, stock raiders, Ghost of the Bushveld, call them what you like, but it is of these animals that we know so little about in the Waterberg area.

To be able to understand these creatures' ways and actions, we have to spend time with them in their natural surroundings. This is the DREAM of Jobedi Game Reserve. We want to know more about these animals for it is not them intruding on our land, but us doing so on theirs. To find a solution so that both can live in harmony will show landowners that killing them is not always to the benefit of them or us. Disposing of one animal may for instance give way to maybe two or three other leopards in the given area. It is up to us to make that crucial decision!!

Jobedi made the decision of conserving rather than killing a leopard and with this fundamental principle our Leopard Conservation began.

Jobedi Game Reserve Welcomes You to the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve
The Waterberg Biosphere reserve received its international status in March 2001 and now forms part of the World network of biosphere reserves, registered with UNESCO.

The Waterberg Biosphere is the first “savannah” biosphere reserve registered in southern Africa. It’s unique biodiversity features and cultural aspects make this a special place to visit and live in. The Waterberg… so named by the early trekkers for its bounteous supply of clear water. Eugene Marais, the noted author and father of African ecology, observed that the passage of wagons was impeded by the enormous amount of water to be found throughout the region.

The name apt, for in times of good rain, one will find a continual seepage and flow of water from within these mountain ranges.

Straddling an area of some 15000 square kilometers in the Limpopo Province, it has largely gone unnoticed for the past eighty years. Within its brooding mountain ranges it had a reputation for gun runners, tax evaders and hunters to be followed by serious minded pioneer folk and their families, who set down deep roots within these hills and plateaux.

I predicted some years ago that the Waterberg would yet emerge as one of the most important and significant conservation areas in South Africa with the greatest potential for tourism, game ranching, hunting and environmental awareness.

The diversity of both plant and animal life is considerable. Whilst recognizing that most of the big game species were eliminated by the turn of the century, conservation has seen the return of the elephant, buffalo, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, lion and all the major species of antelope.

It has beauty unmatched, from its soaring craggy heights on the southern escarpment with the Seven Sisters guarding the plains, to the north-eastern buttresses of spectacular rock formations, rising shear out of the bushveld plains.

The central plateau provides a stunning feeling of emptiness and yet man has lived within these mountains for the past 2000 years – its cultural diversity is its greatest asset. The challenge is to create a conservation area of international importance to the benefit of both the environment and man.

Great strides have already taken place with the environment of the 15000 square kilometer Waterberg Biosphere Reserve, the largest savannah biosphere reserve in Africa.

Directions to Get There:
Take N1 North to Polokwane At Kranskop tollgate turn left towards Modimolle (Nylstroom). Drive through Nylstroom towards Vaalwater, at the 4way stop in Vaalwater turn right going towards Melkrivier. Approx. 31km on the Melkrivier road you get the Dorset & Sondagsloop roads, turn left and immediately turn right and we are 6km on the sand road.

GPS Co-ordinates:
24° 02´ 01´ S / 28° 17´ 38´ E

Email Jobedi Game Reserve Reservations: booksa@madbookings.com