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Skukuza Highlights and Attractions

• Activities: walks along the Sabie River, guided bush walks and game drives
• Golfing: 9 hole (18-tee), Par 72 Skukuza Golf Course
• Skukuza accommodation: Bungalows, campsites, guest houses and a luxury hotel
• Attractions: Skukuza picnic area, Skukuza Indigenous Plants Nursery, Stevenson Hamilton Memorial Library
• Conveniences: Restaurants, a shop, deli, petrol station, bank, car hire and car wash, laundromat, AM Spa, medical doctors

Wondering what is the best camp to stay in Kruger National Park? Many visitors think Skukuza Rest Camp is the best camp in Kruger Park. The activities, attractions and facilities are diverse, as are the animals and plants found both within Skukuza Rest Camp and the surrounding area. Skukuza Rest Camp is an excellent rest camp from which to pursue the Big Five and birds in the vicinity.

Lion are frequently spotted along this route. At night, look for the Fruit Bat that hangs under the eaves of the shop, and the Thick-tailed Bush Baby climbing the trees in search of gum.

Skukuza Accommodation

• Bungalows and Luxury Bungalows
• Family Cottages and Guest Cottages
• Safari Tents
• Guest Houses
• Camp sites for camping or caravans
• Kruger Park Hotel at Skukuza

All You Need to Know

Skukuza Rest Camp shop.

Skukuza Rest Camp in Kruger National Park is a popular rest camp situated in the heart of Big Five wildlife territory and is easily accessed by road and by air. Skukuza Rest Camp in Kruger National Park features a variety of accommodation options such as camping, bungalows, bush lodges, safari tents, cottages, guesthouses and a luxury hotel.

The myriad of birds and wild game in the area is easily spotted by going on bush walks and game drives. Wildlife documentaries are shown in an outdoor amphitheater. There is a magnificent 9 hole (18-tee), Par 72 golf course available for golf enthusiasts on their Kruger Park safari holiday. Read more about golfing in Kruger at Skukuza Golf Course

Restaurants

Skukuza Rest Camp has 2 restaurants - the Cattle Baron Skukuza and the Kruger Station. The Cattle Baron at Skukuza serves breakfast, lunch and supper and has a deck boasting lovely views of the Sabie River. The Kruger Station has a deli, bar, restaurant, ice-cream and coffee shop and a kids zone.

Airport

Skukuza Airport offers daily flights from Johannesburg and Cape Town for your conveniance.

Driving

Skukuza Rest Camp is 12 km from Paul Kruger Gate (30 mins drive)
Skukuza Rest Camp is 39 km from Phabeni Gate (1 hour drive)

Disabled Visitor Facilities

The reception area at Skukuza Rest Camp is accessible with drop curves providing access from the parking area to the buildings, which include the reception office, a bank, a post office and public toilets (including a barrier free toilet) amongst others. The auto-bank is up a step and is thus inaccessible for wheelchair users. The camp's shop, restaurant and cafeteria are all designed to be all easily accessed in a wheelchair, as is movement along the camp's perimeter fence adjacent to and overlooking the Sabie River.

Skukuza Rest Camp has several attractions such as a museum hut, the Stevenson-Hamilton Memorial Library, an information centre and an auditorium. Only the library is inaccessible. Wheelchair users will need to be pulled up the stairs to access this facility. The camp has 8, 2-bed huts with barrier free facilities (6 with showers and 2 with baths). There is an accessible 6-bedded cottage with bath and shower facilities.

Skukuza Rest Camp Facilities

Skukuza Rest Camp restaurant deck.

• Information at Reception
• Public telephone
• Post office
• Public telephone
• Bank
• Car hire
• Car wash
• Restaurant
• Delicatessen
• Shop
• AM Spa
• Auditorium and conference facilities
• Communal ablutions
• Communal kitchens
• 2 swimming pools in camp (for overnight residents only)
• Laundromat
• Filling station
• Cutlery and plates hampers (from Reception)
• Basic first aid assistance
• TV and DSTV (limited channels) available in Luxury Units only
• Day visitors picnic area (located 4km outside the camp) with own swimming pool
• Cellphone reception

Stevenson Hamilton Memorial

This is a get-out point with a path to a memorial plaque. The path passes over and between boulders and is not accessible to a person in a wheelchair.

Nkuhlu Picnic Site

Nkuhlu is a picnic site at Skukuza Rest Camp where a ramp has been specially constructed to allow wheelchair users the opportunity to descend from the parking lot down to the pathway adjacent the river's edge. There has been no adaptation of any of the other facilities and no barrier free toilets exist at the time of writing.

Kruger Tablets

Another get-out point where a memorial plaque has been embedded in rock. Reaching the plaque in a wheelchair requires assistance and such visitors are better off reading the plaque through binoculars.

A Brief History of Skukuza

Skukuza Rest Camp was originally known as Sabie Bridge or simply Reserve, the name was changed in 1936. Skukuza Rest Camp in Kruger National Park is named after the Tsonga name for James Stevenson-Hamilton, the first warden of the park. Literally translated it means 'he who sweeps clean', a reference to his removal of all the local people to make way for the establishment of the Park.

The Stevenson-Hamilton Memorial Museum houses many interesting artifacts - very well known is the knife ranger Harry Wolhuter used to single-handedly slay a Lion and save his own life. Skukuza is the Kruger National Park's largest rest camp and administrative headquarters. It is situated on the southern banks of the Sabie River and is home to some interesting birds and amazing plant life.

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