Leopard’s View Game Lodge is located in Balule Nature Reserve, a big-five reserve that is part of the Greater Kruger Park, and is situated only 5 km from the Balule Nature Reserve gate on the R40 trunk road.  Access through Balule Nature Reserve is along good gravel roads.

Leopard’s View Game Lodge is situated towards the top of a granite ridge, overlooking a secluded valley, with its own well-established waterhole. 

The valley is an active corridor for wildlife and the waterhole is much frequented by animals and birds.

From the top of the ridge there are superb views across the Lowveld to the escarpment west and north of Hoedspruit.

Leopard's View Game lodge is situated within the newly defined borders of Kruger Park, but offers an entirely different way not only to view wild animals but also to experience being in the bush, amongst the “big five”.

Many people are familiar with the Kruger National Park and with spending their days driving the reserve's roads, looking for game, before returning to a rest camp at night.

It’s a great experience that can also be obtained in many other game reserves, but it can tend to be an experience shared with many others and there can be something of a ‘must move on, must get to where we’re going’ feeling.

At Leopard's View, you are always virtually alone at the Lodge, never more than six people; more often than not, it will be just your party.

You decide your own pace and your own rhythm.

And you don’t have to go anywhere if you don’t want to.

However, you need to keep one eye on the valley, to be sure to catch the ongoing parade of wildlife taking place in front of you.

Anything could appear – you never know what will turn up. Perhaps giraffe come up to the lodge to browse the nearest trees; impala and warthog might graze peacefully nearby, elephants may wander up to drain the birdbath, or, perhaps everything changes dramatically when some large cat emerges from the bush and comes to drink.

You may get up before sunrise, help yourself to coffee or tea and then settle down on the tower or on the deck to watch the day begin, as the sun rises over the hills behind the waterhole.

If you are lucky you may just catch the last nocturnal animals coming down for a drink.

Then the day-time animals emerge, antelope, giraffe, warthog and zebra, along with many others, all taking their turn to cross the plain and come and go from the water.

Alternatively, you may have arranged to go on a morning game drive on which you may encounter any of the plentiful game in the area.

At about 9.00 a.m. (or whatever other time suits you) or after your game drive, you'll undoubtedly be hungry, and it's time for a magnificent breakfast/brunch on the terrace.

By 11.00 a.m. or thereabouts, hopefully replete, you could read a book or settle down for a few hours at the pool, on the veranda of your hut or on the main deck.