About this guide
Who's behind Visit Hluhluwe?
An independent visitor guide to Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, published by Visit Africa Publishers. We are not a tour operator and we are not connected to Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife.
Who writes this
Visit Hluhluwe comes from a small independent publisher whose writer spent years crossing Africa by road, sleeping in a tent on the roof of his own vehicle. The parks were what he kept going back to, and the information about them was the thing that kept letting him down: prices long since replaced, camps long since closed.
This guide is the answer to that. It is built on the official documents themselves, dated line by line, and it says so openly where a document is silent.
What this site is
An independent guide to Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal and the towns around its gates. We are not a tour operator, we do not take bookings, and we are not connected to Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, which runs the park, or to any lodge.
How we work at Hluhluwe-iMfolozi
Ezemvelo relaunched its website in 2026 without a tariff page. The fees on this guide come from the 2025/26 tariff brochure itself, read in Ezemvelo's own document store, and from the park's approved 2013 management plan. Where the brochure contradicts itself, as it does on the conservation fee (R300 in a note, R320 in the table), we say which figure we use and why.
Some claims about this park are repeated so often that they feel like facts: a fourth gate, a 96,000 ha park, a boat cruise on Hluhluwe Dam, a single bird count. Where Ezemvelo's own documents do not support them, we write what those documents do say. The park's 1895 founding is real; the claim to be Africa's very oldest reserve is Ezemvelo's, and Ezemvelo's own Pongola page dates that reserve to 1894, so we attribute the superlative.
Every price carries its tariff year, and the 2025/26 rates expire on 31 October 2026. Found something outdated? Tell us and we will fix it.
How the guide is paid for, and what is not for sale
Listing a camp or lodge is free and no position on any page can be bought. Some outbound links earn us a small commission, and that changes neither the order of a list nor a single figure on these pages.
The publisher
Visit Hluhluwe is published by Visit Africa Publishers, which runs a small set of independent guides to Africa's national parks. In South Africa that includes Kruger and Pilanesberg. The method is the same on each: official fees with a date on them, every place to stay listed, and a plain note where the record runs out.