GENERAL ENQUIRIES
PO Box 553, Gillitts, 3603, SA
Telephone:
+ 27 31 761 3440
Facsimile: + 27 31 765 2880
Reservations: reservations@mashatu.com
Accounts: accounts@mashatu.com
Marketing: marketing@mashatu.com
Birders Paradise
The Mashatu photographic underground hides are probably best known for their incredible elephant sightings. During the peak dry season in addition to elephants, photographers are treated to wonderful sightings of many other mammal species including mongoose, impala, steenbok, kudu and the impressive large elands. Another favourite with guests is a Giraffe. With the arrival of…
The PhotoMashatu hides April 2017
It’s been just under two months since the Photo Mashatu underground hides were re-opened for the season. Coming out of the wet season, March and April are traditionally quieter months because of the many sources of water available to the animals on the reserve. But this year, despite all the water around, the animals just…
PhotoMashatu hide staff experience
The Mashatu staff serving brunch to the guests arriving back from a morning session in one of the PhotoMashatu hides are often confronted with excited guests and their stories of the exceptional sightings and photographic opportunities. For many this is a highlight of their visit to Mashatu. So on a quiet day in camp Kirsten…
The Season Start
The hide season has slowly but surly started to gain momentum once again. Our beautiful summer migrants have now fled to warmer regions as the morning and evening temperatures in the bush have taken a dive. The pools of rain water around the reserve are slowly drying up, which has brought back our winter regulars…
C4 Photo Vehicle Experience, Part 2 – By Kyle de Nobrega
Part two, to a highly productive four days of wildlife photography at Mashatu Game Reserve. Thanks to Ranger Fish for the word class sightings!
Photographs By: Kyle de Nobrega
A Mashatu Game Drive – By Mike Singleton Haworth
This is the last post from our recent trip to Mashatu in mid-September. As on a game drive it is better to talk less and look more. I have chosen to follow that wisdom on this photographic game drive. The images I have included were taken on our game drives and show the variety of…
Latest hide action from photographer Mike Dexter
Mashatu‘s exclusive photographic hides offer professional and novice photographers the opportunity to get really close to the animals that frequent the area, while being offered the protection of a hide, producing fantastic photographs! Mike Dexter, of C4 Images & Safaris, shares the latest action from the main photographic hide: The early morning means two things…
Photographic hides at Mashatu
It was a first for photography in southern Africa when C4 Images and Safaris secured an exclusive concession to provide dedicated photographic hides at Mashatu Game Reserve. The hides provide a perfect vantage point from which both novice and professional photographers can safely photograph animals and birds from ground level, and often close range. Shem Compion, co-founder…