Can I track rhino on foot at Matobo Hills Lodge?

Yes. We offer guided white and black rhino tracking walks from the lodge through Matobo's Intensive Protection Zone — one of the safest places to track rhino on foot in Africa.

How long does a rhino tracking experience take?

Rhino tracking walks last 2-3 hours and typically depart at dawn. No previous safari experience is required.

How many San rock art sites are there in Matobo?

Matobo Hills has over 3,000 documented San rock art sites — the highest concentration per square kilometre anywhere on the continent. Paintings date back up to 40,000 years.

Are activities included in the all-inclusive rate?

Selected activities including rhino tracking, rock art guided walks, game drives, and World's View visits are included in our all-inclusive rate. National park fees and rhino conservation levy included.

Can children participate in activities?

Yes. Most activities are suitable for children. Advise us of your children's ages when enquiring so we can tailor activity suggestions.

Things to Do in Matobo National Park

01 What is included

Signature Matobo experiences.

Guided activities are included with the Matobo Experience and All-Inclusive packages.

Guests on Bed & Breakfast, Dinner Bed & Breakfast or Full Board can add any activity as a day tour: half-day from $90, full-day from $165.

Balancing granite kopjes rising from green-season woodland in the Matobo Hills — Every activity begins inside the national park

02 Guided by our own team

Seven ways to know these hills.

Every activity can be booked on its own or added to a stay. Tell us which one and we will come back with times and a price.

On foot

Rhino Tracking on Foot

A guided walking safari through the Intensive Protection Zone with an armed National Parks ranger. One of the safest and most reliable places in Africa to track white rhino on foot.

2-3 hrsEnquire

A guide showing San rock paintings in a granite shelter

Rock art

Bushman Cave Art Tours

Over 3,000 documented San rock art sites, the highest concentration per square kilometre on the continent. Some paintings date back 30,000 years.

2-4 hrsEnquire

Open vehicle on a scenic drive through the granite landscape

Game drive

Scenic Drives

Morning and afternoon drives through the granite landscapes. Balancing rock formations, and frequent sightings of white rhino, sable, kudu, eland, zebra and giraffe.

3 hrsEnquire

Summit

World's View & Rhodes' Grave

The iconic summit and Cecil Rhodes' burial site atop the Matobo Hills, with granite domes stretching to every horizon.

1.5-2 hrsEnquire

A starlit bush dinner under the night sky at Matobo Hills Lodge

Dining

Starlit Mountain Dinner

A multi-course dinner served by candlelight on the mountain overlooking the Maleme Valley, with the hills dark around you.

EveningEnquire

Culture

Village Cultural Tour

A visit to a local Ndebele village: traditional customs, crafts and daily life, with communities the lodge has partnered with for decades.

Half dayEnquire

A rufous-naped lark calling from a termite mound in the Matobo Hills

Birding

Raptor & Birding Walks

The Matobo Hills hold the world's greatest density of Verreaux's eagles, alongside Cape eagle-owls and peregrine falcons. Walks focus on the cliff-nesting raptors.

2-3 hrsEnquire

03 The one people come for

Close enough to hear them breathe.

White rhino, tracked on foot through ancient granite. No vehicles. No barriers. Just you, a guide who grew up in these hills, and a long, careful silence.

Led by lodge guides. Half day, at dawn or in the late afternoon. April to October.

Enquire about rhino tracking

A lodge guide tracking rhino on foot through the granite hills

Ask about an experience

Which of the hills would you like to see?

Pick an activity and we will come back with times, prices and what it involves. No payment is taken.

Which experience?

Full name

Email address

Check-in date

Check-out date

Dates can be rough. We will shape them with you.

Number of guests

WhatsApp number optional

Anything we should know optional

Your enquiry goes straight to the lodge team. We reply within twenty-four hours. No payment is taken.

Choose your days in the hills.

Tell us what you would most like to see and we will shape the stay around it.

Enquire direct WhatsApp the lodge

The hills, up close.