The Motse is the main lodge of Tswalu Kalahari, South Africa’s largest private game reserve, owned and restored by the Oppenheimer family over decades from former farmland back into genuine Kalahari wilderness.
Free-standing suites styled after traditional Tswana legae homes, each with a private plunge pool and wide views over the reserve’s red dunes and grassland.
A refined, seasonal dining programme drawing on South African ingredients, served with views over the reserve’s characteristic Kalahari landscape.
Game drives and walking safaris across Tswalu’s vast private reserve, tracking desert-adapted species found nowhere else in South Africa’s conventional safari circuit.
Tswalu is one of the only places in South Africa to reliably see desert-adapted black-maned lion, along with meerkat, aardvark, and pangolin, species rarely encountered on standard game drives elsewhere.
Tswalu’s rare-species focus, particularly pangolin and aardvark tracking, rewards patience and specialist guiding over the volume-based approach common at smaller reserves.
The Oppenheimer family’s decades-long Tswalu restoration is one of South Africa’s most significant private land rehabilitation projects, converting cattle and sheep farmland back into functioning Kalahari ecosystem.
To arrange a tailor-made journey to this lodge, speak with your Kipekee Journey Lead.
