Kruger National Park · South-western Kruger
Pretoriuskop is the oldest rest camp in Kruger National Park, in the south-western corner of the park near the granite dome of Shabeni Hill. Numbi Gate is only 9 km away, and the area is known for antelope you see less often elsewhere, such as sable and Lichtenstein's hartebeest.
Kruger National Park · From Cape Town
3 days · 2 nights
Return direct flights Cape Town–Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (MQP), hotel transfers in Cape Town and road transfers between MQP and the camp included
Kruger National Park · From Johannesburg
3 days · 2 nights
Return road transfers from Johannesburg or Pretoria included
Kruger National Park · From Cape Town
4 days · 3 nights
Return direct flights Cape Town–Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (MQP), hotel transfers in Cape Town and road transfers between MQP and the camp included
Kruger National Park · From Johannesburg
4 days · 3 nights
Return road transfers from Johannesburg or Pretoria included
Pretoriuskop is in the south-western corner of Kruger, near Shabeni Hill. Numbi Gate is 9 km from the camp, about 20 minutes’ drive. From central Gauteng the drive to Numbi Gate takes about 4 to 5 hours via the N4, R40 and R538, and Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport is about 50 km from the gate.
The camp has a restaurant, cafeteria and shop, a filling station, a laundromat, communal kitchens and a swimming pool. There is no ATM. Unusually for Kruger, the camp keeps red-flowering and exotic trees in its gardens, an exception to the park’s indigenous-only planting policy.
The higher, wetter granite country around Pretoriuskop suits sable, eland and Lichtenstein’s hartebeest, and the rare red duiker and oribi also occur here. SANParks offers guided bush walks and game drives from the camp, and the Napi Wilderness Trail starts from here.
Yes, especially from Johannesburg: Numbi Gate is one of the closest gates to Gauteng, so you spend less of your first day on the road and more of it in the park.
Kruger’s gates and camp gates open and close at set times that change through the year, and you must be inside your camp before it closes. SANParks publishes the current times and notes that they may change without notice; on our safaris, your guide plans each day around them.
Compare Pretoriuskop with the other camps in our guide to Kruger National Park rest camps, or see all our Kruger National Park safaris.
Kruger's largest rest camp and park headquarters, on the Sabie River near Paul Kruger Gate.
A riverside camp on the Sabie River in south-eastern Kruger, with hippos often visible from the camp.
A small camp at Crocodile Bridge Gate on the Crocodile River, in lion and rhino country in the far south-east.
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