Imphofu
Games in Schweizer-Reneke

Hunters booking with Imphofu Safaris have a choice of seventeen different game species, among them, some of the Big Five.
Imphofu Safaris has been in operation since 1987.

Our team of expertly trained trackers, will guide you in the South African Bush. Imphofu Safaris Hunter’s Lodge overlooks the vast landscape of the Harts River Valley. The traditional African structure of the lodge is built with natural rock and thatched roof to blend into the surrounding environment. The lodge can accommodate up to ten people in three bedrooms and a loft. The outside bar caters for those enjoying the open fire pit overlooking the landscape and waterhole where game gathers at sunset. The neck carries a rough horse-like mane and also a heavy fringe of hair along the dewlap. Horns grow on both sexes, very heavy and massive in the male. The bases of the horns may expand to meet in the middle of the head, and form a solid shield impenetrable to bullets. Both male and female have a tuft of up-standing reddish hair on the forehead.The male carries a pair of short straight horns, but it is rare for the females to have horns. Being able to go extended periods without water, and feeding on both grass and bush-browse, the eland can put on condition where other animals fail altogether.The normal colour is plain dun, with light stripes down the sides. Gemsbuck (Oryx gazella) The horns of a gemsbuck are long and slender and straight, ringed at the base and smooth at the tip. A wounded or weary gemsbuck fights in a lying position, the sweep of its horns long enough to cover even a flank attack.It is often suggested that the gemsbuck, with its general pony-like build and straight horns, is the original of the fabled unicorn. Seen in profile, it could easily seem to have only a single horn.They are rather less than four feet high at the shoulder, pale grey in general colour, with a dark line between the grey flanks and white belly. The face and legs are strongly marked in black and white, and there is a narrow black triangle running from the root of the tail and ending in a point on the withers. In undisturbed areas it assembles in herds of hundred or more, but in other places small troops of a dozen or so are more usual.The impala is about three feet high at the shoulder and of slender build, with a graceful upward sweep of the neck. The doe is hornless, but the buck has delicate horns, long for the size of the animal, ranging backwards, outwards and upwards in a lyre-shaped curve, with transverse ridges for most of the length.The skin colour is chestnut-red, lighter on the flanks, with a well-marked line between this and the pure white under parts. In rolling country they often move onto the ridges for the day’s sleep, bedding down in the cover of thin scrub with a wide view around.When startled or uncertain, the reedbuck stands and signals its disquiet by a loud whistle which can be heard for a considerable distance, and passes the alarm to every animal in the neighbourhood.When sheltered in thick cover, this buck generally lies tight until the hunter is within a few paces and then burst out in full gallop. It has a smooth coat of tawny rufous colour lightening to yellow on the rump, belly and inside thighs. The face is white with a chestnut line down the cheeks. When standing in full view with its head turned towards one the most vivid impression is of slenderness in the body and big ears and big, dark eyes under white eyebrows. Single animals or pairs are the rule Young Tracey Ayer boasts with her warthog. The male carries good horns, rising well up from the head and curving gently forward towards the tip. The female is hornless.Waterbuck are grass feeders. A solitary animal separated from the herd often takes to the river pools as final refuge.