Tuli Block Wildlife - Tuli Block Travel Guide

Wildlife of the Tuli Block

The Tuli Block is a series of privately-owned farms, lying on the border between Botswana and South Africa, of which many are private game reserves supporting a wide variety of wildlife. The best-known of these reserves are the Mashatu and Tuli Game Reserves.

Giants and things

The Tuli is also known as the Land of the Giants because of the incidence of ancient baobabs, tall cliffs and herds of elephants. It is here where the wild Africa of legend stirs. It is a land that has experienced most of Africa’s human history – from tribal conflict to settlement and through to exploration – with the echoes of all these endeavours to be found in the area.

Apart from the elephant and baobabs the Tuli Block is also the home of the tallest mammal, the giraffe, the largest bird, the ostrich and the largest antelope in the eland. Africa’s heaviest flying bird, the kori bustard is also found in the Tuli.

Apart from a great game experience the Tuli also offers one of the most sought after birding safaris with more than 350 species having being recorded. It is not the number of species though that sets Tuli apart but the species themselves. Dry-land species are found side by side with waders and other water birds.

The geography of the Tuli area is in stark contrast to that of the more famous northern parks of Botswana. In the north the white Kalahari sands dominate and there are very few hills whereas in Tuli the earth is red and rocky, with hills and outcrops filling the landscape.

Cars, bikes and on foot

The great diversity of Tuli can be experienced by game drive, night drive, on foot, on horseback and by bicycle. Special bicycle trails take you close to a variety of wildlife.

The Tuli may not be as well known as the northern parks of Botswana but it can certainly hold its own against these icons.