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Tinga Game Lodge

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Tinga Private Game Lodge

Tinga Private Game Lodge is situated on the banks of the Sabie River, in the prime game-viewing area of the Kruger National Park. The Sabie River has the highest recorded density of leopards in Africa, and one of the highest predator densities. The Sabie River is also said to have the richest biodiversity of any South African river, with many endangered and rare species (mammals, birds, reptiles and plants) being found in the area.

Tinga has an exclusive 5000-hectare concession within this area, where guests can view the wildlife on safaris or bush w...

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Telephone:	+27 (0)11 880 9992	CONTACT PERSON:	Tinga Game Lodge
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Web	www.tinga.co.za

Address:	15 3rd Avenue, Parktown North, 2193, South Africa

Additional Information
History The Kruger National Park was first proclaimed in 1898 as the Sabie Game Reserve by the then president of the Transvaal Republic, Paul Kruger. He first proposed the need to protect the animals of the Lowveld in 1884, but his revolutionary vision took another 12 years to be realised when the area between the Sabie and Crocodile Rivers was set aside for restricted hunting. The Scottish-born James Stevenson-Hamilton (born in 1867) was appointed the Park's first warden on 1 July 1902. Many accounts of the parks early days can be found in the Stevenson-Hamilton Memorial Library. On 31 May 1926 the National Parks Act was proclaimed and with it the merging of the Sabie and Shingwedzi Game Reserves into the Kruger National Park. The first motorists entered the park in 1927 for a fee of one pound. The surface area of Kruger National Park is 7,580 miles² (19,633 km²). There are almost 254 known cultural heritage sites in the Kruger National Park, including nearly 130 recorded rock art sites. There is ample evidence that prehistoric man, Homo erectus, roamed the area between 500 000 and 100 000 years ago Cultural artifacts of Stone Age man have been found for the period 100 000 to 30 000 years ago More than 300 archaeological sites of Stone Age man have been found Evidence of Bushman Folk (San) and Iron Age people from about 1500 years ago is also in great evidence. There are also many historical tales of the presence of Nguni people and European explorers and settlers in the Kruger area. There are significant archaeological ruins at Thulamela and Masorini For more information on the development of the Kruger National park, - Click Here Until 2000, all tourism infrastructure inside the Kruger National Park (KNP) was developed, owned and operated by South African National Parks (SANParks). At this time, SANParks embarked on a commercialisation process that allowed the parastatal to grant concessionaires rights for the use of defined areas of land and infrastructures within National Parks, coupled with the opportunity to build and operate tourism facilities over specific time periods. Major objectives included the promotion of economic empowerment of the formerly disadvantaged, the promotion and provision of business opportunities to emerging entrepreneurs (in particular local communities adjacent to national parks) and the application of SANParks environmental regulations and global parameters to all concessions....