Tau Game Lodge - Madikwe Game Reserve - South Africa
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Tau Game Lodge is a Luxury Safari Lodge in the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa
The lodge has been designed to both reflect and blend into the natural beauty which surrounds Tau. The lodge faces onto a vast natural waterhole, enabling guests to delight in the 27 major species which roam the reserve, which include all of the “big five”.
Features
back to topAt Tau you'll be taken on Game Drives with experienced guides who will show you the big five which include lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino.
Other animals that are seen regularly sighted either at the waterhole our in the surrounding area of the reserve are endangered wild dogs, giraffes, ostriches, warthogs, cheetahs, spotted & brown hyenas, zebra, giraffes, white and black rhino's, endangered wild dogs, impala, springbok, kudu, waterbuck, wildebeest, eland, blesbok, nyala and sable.
Madikwe Game Reserve has a unique boast among reserves through out Africa, as it is the only place where Kalahari Gemsbok and Springbok meet naturally in the wild.
If you are a keen birder then the Madikwe Game Reserve is an ideal lodge for you, as the reserve itself is home to a bird population of over 350 different species. Including the birds like cape vulture, ostriches, martial eagle as well as plumcoloured starlings, marico flycatchers, namaqua sandgrouse and the temminck's courser, to name a very few of the diverse species in the reserve.
Facilities
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No. Rooms30 |
Capacity60 |
Sustainable/Ethical Credentials
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Madikwe Game Reserve is one of the few game reserves in the world to be proclaimed purely on the grounds of being the most appropriate and sustainable land use for an area. The Madikwe Game Reserve is a joint venture between the state, the private sector and local communities. The reserve works to involve the local community in wealth creation through tourism, provides skills and training, tries to involve the local communities directly in the benefits of wildlife tourism and the protection of the natural environment.
The owner of Tau Game Lodge, Robert Gerard, set up the Tau Foundation to enable community development in line with the philosophy of the reserve. Since its inception The Tau Foundation, driven by Tau's director Clifford Green, has implemented a number of community projects in the local Supingstad community. The social responsibility programme is delivering tangible results at the various local schools. This includes the upkeep of the school properties and upgrading of the school sports fields and play grounds. The renovation of school buildings and facilities, setting up of vegetable gardens, computer rooms, creating a borehole and installing guttering and water tanks and toilets with running water at the high school. Guests visiting the lodge are offered the opportunity to visit the Supingstad schools, the local leather factory, some traditional historical sites or they can contribute to the soup kitchen which Tau arranges at the schools. The Tau foundation has also granted University sponsorships to students with academic potential.
South African Tau Tree Fund
The Tau Tree Fund is aimed at giving guests an opportunity to contribute to the environment, by planting indigenous trees. Especially the more endangered species, trees such as the Maroela (Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra). The Fund has also managed to acquire eight Bushveld Red Balloon trees (Erythrophysa traansvaalensis). These trees are extremely rare and less than 50 of them are known of in the greater Madikwe area. So far the Fund has planted over 50 trees in and around the Tau Lodge area.
Tau Game Lodge is working closely with the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry and is supplying nurseries, so that from time to time when the trees seed, they are able to collect seeds for further regeneration.
Sustainable Awards
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Currently Without an Award for Sustainability
Dining
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