Today let’s visit the solar plant with the four so-called “tables” that produce the electricity for us. On a warm, sunny day it is surprisingly cool here in the shade under the panels.

At the end of a glittering night and lavish celebration at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Athens, Rolf greets all our followers in this special edition from the World Luxury Hotel Awards with the “Chairman’s Award” in his hands.

Today we introduce you to a somewhat special activity with which you can fill the time during the day and between safaris: Gin tasting. In Rhulani we offer a special collection of “Mirari Gins”, which Barlady Nosa introduces to us in more detail.

Today is a great day in the over 20 year history of Rhulani Safari Lodge. We are celebrating the completion of the solar project, and together with Kyle, director of “Blockpower”, we are officially putting the solar system into operation today and at the same time saying goodbye to the grid. From now on, the sun, solar panels, batteries and, as a final back-up, a generator will provide power at Rhulani.

A massive bushfire recently raged in the north of the reserve, which we successfully fought. Today we visit the area and find ourselves on scorched earth. Is a bushfire just normal or an exceptional situation? Let’s talk to Sean.

Something that our guests may not realize at the moment of booking is the spaciousness of the lodge area, and thus the distances between the individual guest rooms - called “Luxury Private Chalets”. Today, Rolf will illustrate this aspect in more detail, and what it means for you.

While our guests enjoy the last rays of sunshine and the last moments outside in the bush, the preparations for the reception and dinner are in full swing at the lodge. We’ll take a look and our host for the evening, Kyla, and bar lady Nosa will accompany us.

When you are at the lodge, the safari and nature experience is far from over. There are little surprises everywhere, like today for Rolf, who actually wants to work a little bit in Rhulani’s Leisure Room. But then someone knocks on the window.

There is always something to see, discover and marvel at on a safari. This is also the case during the rest of the sundowner, where we find tracks of wild dogs on the road today with Ranger Dean. Let’s take a look.

We have never needed it and hopefully never will. And yet, like every hotel, we have it: an assembly point. In today’s blog, Rolf makes a test on how to get from the guest room to the assembly point during an evacuation. It takes him exactly 3 minutes to do this from the farthest guest room.