Zebra in last light on Karoo grassland, hills and acacia behind them

Family safari since 1996

Built for hunters — and for everyone they bring.

Izak and Linky Kirsten run hunting and photographic safari in the Green Karoo and Kalahari, from Douglas on the Orange River, and across southern Africa. The lodge follows the animals.

Since 1996Family-run
All agesFamily-friendly
100,000+Acres of concession
Malaria-freeGreen Karoo / Kalahari
Five countriesSA and the network
DouglasOrange River logistics

Conservation

The best way to teach it is for your kids to stand in it.

This is not a brochure paragraph. Children sit in the same camp, ride to the fire, and watch the country work. Hunters, photo guests, and observers share the week.

Guests of all ages around the campfire after a day in the field

Where you stay

The lodge follows the safari.

Big Five country is a different bed from a Tiny Ten hunt, a Karoo plains week, or a photo trip. Guests stay in lodges chosen for the animals and the country — not a single named WOW ranch.

Kids are welcome. Meals and laundry sit on the packages. Hard liquor and taxidermy do not.

Sunset over the hills from a lodge lawn
Izak and Linky Kirsten dancing in a thatch lodge dining room

The Kirstens

Izak and Linky. Daughters in the business. A field team.

Family-friendly because they run it as a family. They work the US show circuit — Dallas, the World Deer Show, Texas rooms — then take the same people into camp.

Thirty years. Green Karoo / Kalahari. Douglas on the Orange River. Five countries on the network.

Enquire

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Tell us hunt or photo, dates, and who is coming — including children. Izak and Linky answer on email and on 1179.