The exclusive use Manor at Samara offers total privacy for parties of up to 8 guests in 4 luxury double en-suite rooms with services including personal ranger, chef and butler. Unwind on the patio and gaze over the 21m infinity pool at the water-hole where game come to slake their thirst in the early morning and late afternoon. Catch up on some reading in the stylish lounge and enjoy meals in the bright airy dining-room or alfresco on the lawn.
The Manor at Samara
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All you need to know
Intro
Highlights
- WALK AND STALK – Track cheetah, giraffe, and other species including plants and trees, on foot with your experienced ranger.
- DINE AL FRESCO –enjoy some of your meals in an al fresco bush setting with unsurpassed views and only the sounds of nature as a backdrop and the vast Karoo sky overhead.
RISE BEFORE THE SUN – Be part of an amazing sunrise on-top of the mountain and witness the waking sounds of nature’s orchestra as birds and various species call out just before sunrise.
- WISH UPON A KAROO STAR - Join your ranger after dinner for a star gazing nightcap, where you will be taken through the constellations which feel so close that you can almost touch them.
Need To Know
The Karoo is a well kept secret but those who venture there it provides space to breathe and dream.
Heart-stoppingly beautiful, is how award-winning Samara Private Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape, is ultimately described. Nestled in an amphitheatre of mountains on 70,000 acres, where wildlife roams again.
Safaris
Two game drives per day included in our rates. Your experienced guide will take you to the plains of Camdeboo and up to the top of Kondoa, perhaps for a picnic with views to infinity.
Walk and stalk the cheetah and get up and personal with the rhino. Stare skyward and experience the true height of the calm and gentle giraffe. Be amazed at the wonderful and secretive aardvark.
Wildlife
| MAMMALS | ||
| Bats | ||
| Egyptian Free-Tailed Bat | ||
| Cape Serotine Bat | ||
| Egyptian Slit-Faced Bat | ||
| Schreiber's Long-fingered Bat | ||
| Geoffrey's Horseshoe Bat | ||
| Carnivores | ||
| Black-Backed Jackal | ||
| Cape Fox | ||
| Bat-Eared Fox | ||
| Cape Clawless Otter | ||
| Striped Polecat | ||
| Water Mongoose | ||
| Yellow Mongoose | ||
| Small Grey Mongoose | ||
| Suricate (Meerkat) | ||
| Small-Spotted Genet | ||
| Aardwolf* | ||
| Caracal | ||
| Small Spotted Cat | ||
| Cheetah | ||
| Elephant Shrews | ||
| Smiths Rock Elephant Shrew | ||
| Round-Eared Elephant Shrew | ||
| Hares and Rabbits | ||
| Scrub Hare | ||
| Smith's Red Rock Rabbit | ||
| Hyrax | ||
| Rock Hyrax | ||
| Insectivores | ||
| Aardvark | ||
| Forest Shrew | ||
| Reddish Grey Musk Shrew | ||
| South African Hedgehog* | ||
| Primates | ||
| Velvet Monkey | ||
| Chacma Baboon | ||
| Ungulates Even-toed | ||
| Springbuck | Klipspringer | |
| Steenbuck | Bushpig | |
| Kudu | Giraffe | |
| Eland | Waterbuck | |
| Oryx/Gemsbok | Red Hartebeest | |
| Common Duiker | Black Wildebeest | |
| Mountain Reedbuck | Blesbuck | |
| Grey Rhebok | Nyala | |
| Ungulates Odd-toed | ||
| Burchell's/Plains Zebra | ||
| White Rhinoceros | ||
| Cape Mountain/Zebra | ||
| Black Rhinoceros | ||
| Rodents | ||
| Ground Squirrel | Spectacled Dormouse | |
| Common Molerat | Karoo Bushrat | |
| Springhare | African Porcupine | |
| Pouched Mouse | Pygmy Mouse | |
| Striped Mouse | ||
| BIRDS | ||
| African Harrier Hawk/Gymnogene | Bustard, Ludwigs | Amur, falcon |
| Apalis, Bar-Throated | Buzzard, Jackal | Buzzard , Lizard |
| Avocet, Pied | Buzzard, Steppe | Cuckoo , Klaa's |
| Barbet, Acacia Pied | Canary, Black-Headed | Cuckoo , Black |
| Batis, Cape | Canary, Cape | Grey , Winged Francolin |
| Batis, Pirit | Canary, Streaky-Headed Seedeater | Stilt , Black- winged |
| Bee-Eater, European | Canary, White-Throated | Plover , Kittlitz's Plover |
| Bishop, Southern Red | Canary, Yellow-Fronted | Courser , Burchell's |
| Bokmakierie | Cchat, African Stone | Courser , Double Banded |
| Boubou, Southern | Chat, Anteating | Cuckoo , Greater Spoted |
| Bulbul, African Red-Eyed | Chat, Familiar | Roller , European |
| Greenbul, Sombre | Chat, Mountain | Lark , Eastern Clapper |
| Bunting, Cape | Cisticola, Grey-Backed | Lark , Rufous-Naped |
| Bunting, Cinnamon-Breasted | Cisticola, Levaillant's | Lark , Capped Lark |
| Bunting, Golden-Breasted | Cisticola, Zitting | Tit-Babbler , Chestnut-vented |
| Bunting, Larklike | Cormorant, Reed | Crombec Long-Billed |
| Bustard, Denham's | Crane, Blue | Apalis , Bar-Throated |
| Bustard, Kori | Crombec, Long-Billed | Flycatcher , African Paradise |
| Crow, Cape | Falcon, Lanner | Sparrow-Weaver,White Browed |
| Crow, Pied | Falcon, Peregrine | Bishop,Southern Red |
| Cuckoo, Diederiks | Finch, Red-Headed | Canary, Yellow |
| Cuckoo, Jacobin | Finch, Scaly-Headed | Canary , Streaky-Headed Seed Eater |
| Cuckoo,, Red-Chested | Finchlark, Grey-Backed | Teal, Cape |
| Dove, Cape Turtle | Flycatcher, Fairy | Teal, Red Billed |
| Dove, Laughing | Flycatcher, Fiscal | Duck , White Faced |
| Dove, Namaqua | Flycatcher, Spotted | Goose, Spur-Winged |
| Dove, Red-Eyed | Francolin, Grey-Winged | Stork, Black |
| Drongo, Fork-Tailed | Goose, Egyptian | |
| Duck, African Black | Goshawk, Gabar | |
| Duck, Yellow-Billed | Goshawk, Southern Pale Chanting | |
| Eagle, Black/Verreaux's | Grebe, Little | |
| Eagle, Booted | Guineafowl, Helmeted | |
| Eagle, Martial | Hammerkop | |
| Egret,Cattle | Harrier, Black | |
| Egret, Little | Heron, Black-Headed | |
| Eremomela, Yellow-Bellied | Heron, Grey | |
| Honeyguide, Greater | Lark, Cape Long-Billed | |
| Honeyguide, Lesser | Lark, Sabota | |
| Hoopoe African | Longclaw, Cape | |
| Hornbill, Grey | Martin, Bron-Throated | |
| Ibis, African Sacred | Martin, House | |
| Ibis, Hadeda | Martin, Rock | |
| Kestrel, Lesser | Martin, Sand | |
| Kestrel, Rock | Moorhen, Common | |
| Kingfisher, Brown-Hooded | Mousebird, Red-Faced | |
| Kingfisher, Malachite | Mousebird, Speckled | |
| Kingfisher, Pied | Mousebird, White-Backed | |
| Kite, Black-Shouldered | Nedicky | |
| Kite, Yellow-Billed | Nightjar, Fiery-Necked | |
| Korhaan, Karoo | Nightjar, Rufous-Cheeked | |
| Korhaan, Southern Black | Ostrich | |
| Lapwing, Blacksmith | Owl, African Grass | |
| Lapwing, Crowned | Owl, African Scops | |
| Lark, Cape Clapper | Owl, Barn | |
| Owl, Cape Eagle | Secretarybird | |
| Owl, Spotted Eagle | Shelduck, South African | |
| Owl, Wood | Shrike, Common Fiscal | |
| Pigeon, Rameron | Shrike, Red-Backed | |
| Pigeon, Speckled | Snake Eagle, Black-Chested | |
| Pipit, African | Sparrow, Cape | |
| Pipit, Plain-Backed | Sparrow, Grey-Headed | |
| Plover, Kittlitz's | Sparrow, House | |
| Plover, Three-Banded | Sparrow, Yellow-Throated | |
| Prinia, Karoo | Sparrow Hawk, Black | |
| Prinia, Namaqua | Sparrow-Hawk, Little | |
| Quail, Common | Sparrow-Hawk, Red-Breasted | |
| Quelea, Red-Billed | Starling, Cape Glossy | |
| Raven, White-Necked | Starling, Pale-Winged | |
| Robin-Chat, Cape | Starling, Pied | |
| Robin, Karoo Scrub | Starling, Red-Winged | |
| Robin, White-Browed Scrub | Starling, Wattled | |
| Sandgruse, Namaqua | Stork, White | |
| Sunbird, Amethyst | Titbabbler, Lanyard's | |
| Sunbird, Malachite | Vulture, Cape/Griffon | |
| Sunbird, Southern Double Collared | Wagtail, Cape | |
| Swallow, Barn | Warbler, Lesser Swamp | |
| Swallow, Greater-Striped | Warbler, Rufous-Eared | |
| Swallow, Pearl-Breasted | Warbler, Willow | |
| Swallow, White-Throated | Waxbill, Blue | |
| Swift, Alpine | Waxbill, Common | |
| Swift, Common | Waxbill, Swee | |
| Swift, Little | Weaver, Cape | |
| Swift, White-Rumped | Weaver,Southern Masked | |
| Tchagra, Southern | White-eye, Cape | |
| Thick-Knee, Spotted | Whydah, Pin-Tailed | |
| Thrush, Cape Rock | Wood-Hoopoe, Green | |
| Thrush, Olive | Woodpecker, Cardinal | |
| Tit, Cape Penduline | Woodpecker, Ground | |
| Tit, southern Grey | ||
| Titbabbler, Common | ||
| REPTILES | ||
| Snakes | ||
| Common egg-eater | Mole snake | |
| Brown house snake | Sundevall's shovel snout | |
| Cape cobra | Montane grass snake | |
| Puff adder | Red-lipped snake | |
| Karoo whip snake | Coral snake | |
| Spotted Skaapsteker | Rinkhals | |
| Spotted house snake | Horned adder | |
| Cape wolf snake | Plain mountain adder | |
| Lizards | ||
| Golden sand-skink | Spotted thick-toed gecko | |
| Ground agama | Marico thick-toed gecko | |
| Southern rock-agama | Eastern cape crag lizard | |
| Karoo dwarf chameleon | Karoo thick-tailed gecko | |
| Karoo gerdled lizard | Rock monitor lizard | |
| Occelated sand lizad | Cape thick-toed gecko | |
| Nmaqua sand lizard | Cape skink | |
| Bibrons thick-toed gecko | Western rock skink | |
| Variegated skink | Namaqua sand lizard | |
| Spotted desert lizard | Namaqua plated lizard | |
| Burchells sand lizard | Common long tailed seps | |
| Spotted sand lizard | Cape girdled lizard | |
| Tortoises | ||
| Angulate tortoise | Greater padloper | |
| Mountain tortoise | Cape terrapin | |
| Karoo padloper | Tent tortoise | |
| Frogs and Toads | ||
| Karoo Toad | Cape River Frog | |
| Southern Pygmy Toad | Common Platanna | |
| Commo Caco | Giant Bullfrog | |
| PROMINENT TREES AND TALL SHRUBS | ||
| Sweet Thorn | Acacia karoo | |
| Karoo Viooltjie | Aptosimum procumbes | |
| Mountain Aloe | Aloe ferox | |
| Aloe | Aloe broomii | |
| Shepherd's Tree | Boscia oleoides | |
| Karoo Sage | Buddleja glomerata | |
| Cabbage Tree | Cussonia spicata | |
| Firesticks | Diospyros austro-africana | |
| Blue Bush | Diospyros lycioides | |
| Bladder Nut | Diospyros whyteana | |
| Sand Olive | Dodonea angustifolia | |
| Rhinoceros Bush | Elytropappus rhinocerotis | |
| Blue Gwarrie | Euclea crispa | |
| Common Gwarrie | Euclea undulata | |
| Yellow Euphorbia | Euphprbia mauritanica | |
| Crossberry Bush | Grewia occidentalis | |
| Honeythorn | Lycium cinereum | |
| Wild Olive | Olea europaea subsp africanum | |
| Jacket Plum | Pappea capensis | |
| Spekboom | Portulacaria afra | |
| Khuni Bush | Rhus burchelli | |
| Nana Berry | Rhus dentata | |
| Broom Karee | Rhus erosa | |
| Mountain Karee | Rhus lancea | |
| Thorny Taaibos | Rhus longispina | |
| Firethorn Rhus | Rhus pyroides | |
| Camphor Bush | Tarchonanthus camphoratus | |
| PROMINENT GRASSES | ||
| Red Grass | Themeda Triandra | |
| Couch/Kweek | Cynodon dactylon | |
| Buffalo | Panicum Maximum |
Quick Facts
Region
Africa
Property Type
Safari Lodge (less than 20 rooms), Safari House / Villa
Average Stay
3 - 4 nights
Average Price
ZAR4265.00
Child Policy
- Children of all ages are welcome at Samara
- Dedicated children’s programme on offer daily at Karoo Lodge
- Only children of age 8 and over are allowed on scheduled game drives.Baby-sitting services available at R100.00 per hour.
- All children before 3rd birthday, sharing with adults, are free of charge at Karoo Lodge (not Sibella suites), Manor House and Mountain Retreat
- All guests of age 14 and over are required to take their own room at adult rates
- A maximum of 2 children to be accommodated in Karoo Suites and a maximum of 1 child in Lodge Suites, sharing with two adults.
3 or more adults are not permitted to share rooms
Accommodation
2 x king size bed en-suite rooms
2 x twin bed en-suite rooms
Accolades
* TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence
* Voted Conde Nast Traveller Gold Standard
* Voted 12 Most Romantic Places in the World, Hello! Magazine
* Voted 4 Best Family Safari Holidays, The Telegraph
* Voted 15 Greatest Safari Experiences in Africa, Harper's Bazaar
* Voted Top 101 Hotels in the World, Tatler
* Voted Top 50 Romantic Destinations in the World, Travel and Leisure
* Voted Conde Nast Traveler Hot Spots List
Region
Africa
Property Type
Safari Lodge (less than 20 rooms) Safari House / Villa