Rooms at Uitkyk Guest farm

The Camp and surrounds

Kimberley is renowned as the site of a 19th-century diamond rush of unprecedented madness, one that converted a small hillock to what is now known as the Big Hole, a massive, water-filled pit gouged into the earth’s surface. Today, despite its status as the industrial and administrative centre of the Northern Cape Province, the city is surrounded by natural areas and flanked on virtually all sides by private game farms that offer good dryland savanna birding.
Our camp is not fenced and therefor game roam free in and around the facilities. We do not have dangerous game and big 5 species however the plains game is plentiful and a wide variety to be seen. These include giraffe, zebra, springbuck, oryx, sable, waterbuck, blesbuck and many more. We are also lucky to have a very large colony of Cape Vultures on the farm. The Cape Vulture is a rare species. They are threatened by the lack of food due to the changes in farm practices involving less livestock mortalities. Collisions with powerlines are also important threats. The protection of the nesting colonies, the reduction of aerial powerlines and supplementary feeding are some of the conservation efforts always in progress.