Samara Karoo Reserve is the perfect place for a malaria-free wilderness in the Great Karoo of South Africa and a place to see the Bg Five (lion, leopard, black rhinoceros, African bush elephant ...

From there, you can take in the surrounding Karoo, a semi-desert expanse that covers 153,000 square miles in South Africa’s Western Cape.

The 27,000-hectare Samara Karoo Reserve is home to a growing roll-call of iconic species and a varied habitat that features five of South Africa’s nine recognized biomes. Samara Plains Camp.

About 183 million years ago during the early part of the Jurassic Period, enormous amounts of lava flowed across the landscape in what is now South Africa, transforming the environment into a land ...