From the time that the first explorers set foot on its soil, Africa has held a mystery as the Dark Continent, and an excitement at the unprecedented beauty of its unspoilt wilderness, dramatic landscapes and abundant and diverse wildlife and environment.

This mystery and beauty is nowhere better experienced than at the southern-most end of Africa's Great Rift Valley. Here the hot humid plains of Maputaland are richly adorned with rolling grasslands and thornveld, flame coloured flowering aloes, majestic Marula trees, exotic swamp forests and tranquil water refuges lined with the mysterious yellow-green of Fever trees.  Rising over a landscape teeming with wildlife, each day the sun makes a lazy arc across Nature's mosaic, bringing life and warmth, sometimes thirst and scorching heat, to those who roam its surface, until finally setting behind the alluring Ubombo Mountains. The fading light, a signal to nature's nocturnal creatures to wake and enrich the peace of the night with their haunting calls and stealthy vigilance, slowly withdraws across the heart of Maputaland - the plain of Kube Yini.  

The real heart of Africa beats in Maputaland - or Tongaland as it was once called: situated in the north eastern corner of South Africa's Zululand, it covers 8,000 sq kms - stretching from Lake St. Lucia in the South, the Ubombo Mountains in the West; the Mozambique border in the North; and to the dense dune forest fringed coast of the Indian Ocean in the east.  Maputaland is one of the few places in Southern Africa never "colonised" and so retains a true wilderness quality.  Come… share a dream within the warm heart of Africa - Kube Yini Private Game Reserve!