Marakele National Park
Mountain slopes, deep valleys and wildlife along the route. In Marakele you do not only look at the road ahead. Looking up is often just as interesting.
Discover everything about this location.
Between mountain peaks and deep valleys.
Marakele National Park is shaped by differences in altitude. Mountains give way to rolling hills and deep valleys. Elephants, rhinos and Chacma baboons live in this landscape. Buffalo, leopards and cheetahs also have their habitat here.
The lion and the spotted hyena are the park’s large predators. Marakele is also malaria-free.
The park lies around 200 kilometres north of Pretoria and can be explored in a 4x4. A stop that fits well into a route from South Africa towards Botswana.
Sometimes the remarkable is above you.
Marakele is also known for its large colony of Cape vultures. More than 800 breeding pairs live here together, which makes this colony one of the largest in the world.
Anyone who occasionally takes their eyes off the road during a game drive may come across more birds of prey. The park is home to the Black Eagle, African Hawk, Black-breasted Snake Eagle and Brown Snake Eagle, among others.
Mountains below you. Vultures above you. And the 4x4 in between.
More than just wildlife along the road.
- Drive through mountain landscapes, rolling hills and deep valleys.
- Look out for elephants, rhinos and Chacma baboons.
- Buffalo, leopards and cheetahs have their habitat here.
- Lions and spotted hyenas are the park’s large predators.
- More than 800 breeding pairs of Cape vultures live in Marakele.
- Several eagle species also occur in the park.
- The area is malaria-free.
- Marakele lies around 200 kilometres north of Pretoria.
Self-drive trips in the region
South Africa, eSwatini and Mozambique Beach & Safari
West Cape and Namaqualand hiking & 4x4
