At Thornybush, we strive to make our experiences more meaningful, immersive and sustainable. We’ve seen first-hand how this can have a positive impact on not only our guests, but the community and environment our guests encounter too.
Our goal is to help you reconnect with nature and, in turn, reconnect with yourself and the friends and family you’re traveling with. As you explore outwardly, you also enrich your inner life, creating a positive personal impact that continues beyond the trip and stays with you for the rest of your life.
Beautiful Lodges
Spectacular Sightings
Expert Guides
Passionate People
Community Engagement
Immersive experiences
We understand that travellers these days are seeking something more when they travel. They want to learn, grow and engage with the world.
When it comes to safaris, transformation comes in the form of immersion, reconnection and life-changing experiences.
Visiting some of our community projects can spark an idea, memory or thought that can not only change your life, but those around you too.
Transformative Safaris Experiences
Personal growth
Travelling in Africa grants you the opportunity to learn, grow and develop through engaging with the world in a new way.
This translates to a valuable form of self-actualization and personal transformation and growth.
Travelling in this fashion stays with you beyond the trip itself and remains embedded in the core of your being once you return.
It really is THAT good! THAT special! THAT once in a lifetime trip!
The people are very special (Grant, Moses, Naledi, and everyone else, even the ones behind the scenes) – friendly, efficient, dedicated, knowledgeable and always laughing… it feels like leaving friends behind!
Our game drives and sightings were out of this world… how about 3 leopard sightings and wild dogs in a day…
Do you rate that 20 out of 10…
The lodge is beautiful… a review states that you either love it or hate it, because it is “different”… I LOVED it!!! Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens created a masterpiece!
The food was great!
This was a trip for the books!
And … I’m saving now… to come back again!