South Africa Private Hunting Farms and Outfitters

Custom Rifle and Bow Hunting Plains Game Hunting Safaris in Northern Cape Province

Mount Carmel Safaris has been operating since 1985, your every need will be catered for by the team of professional hunters, trackers, skinners and taxidermist as well as our warm and caring staff. We offer you a great walk and stalk with a professional hunter to acquire your once in a lifetime plains game or dangerous game trophy.

The Northern Cape Province is legendary for its vast herds of plains game, its diversity of ecological systems and striking geological structures. Standing at +/- 500M OR 4500+/- FT elevation the high dry climate is best enjoyed between March and October due to its location the province enjoys virtual freedom from parasitic diseases.

Mount Carmel Safaris is situated in the Northern Cape Province, a province legendary for its herds of game, huge open skies, diverse ecological systems and intriguing geological structures.

Plains Game Rifle and Bow Hunting Safaris in South African

Custom and Bespoke Plains Game Hunting Packages

Mount Carmel Safaris offers the trophy hunter the chance to hunt fine game and to enjoy excellent game fare in an accommodating atmosphere. If an animal on your wish list does not occur on Mount Carmel it can be arranged to hunt on another hunting concession, to assure that your unique trophy list and goals are reached.

Trophy hunts can be conducted with the client’s choice of weapons: rifle, muzzle loader, archery, or handgun. Hunt options also include non-lethal darting.

The hunting area is located in the north-east in the Northern Cape. Here you can have the ultimate hunting experience with a variety of game to hunt, from Springbuck to Sable.

The duration of your hunt will be determined by the number of animals desired. The recommended time for an ordinary plains game and dangerous game hunt will be 7-10 days.

South Africa Hunting Lodge

Our Hunting Lodge is run in a traditional luxury safari theme. Designed and built by Andries, it creates a warm African atmosphere which you’ll find nowhere else. The Lodge offers guest suites with en suite bathrooms.

Our game lodge is of the highest standard. Rooms are fully serviced and laundry done daily. We recommend lightweight cotton clothes in khaki or green. Full length pants and long sleeved shirts are recommended for protection from the sun. Sturdy comfortable hunting/hiking boots are a must. Jackets and sweaters will come in handy during the cool evenings and early mornings. Hats are recommended during the sunny days.

The rooms are equipped with a queen or king sized beds, bedside tables, reading lamps, wardrobes, comfortable chairs, satellite T.V. and air-conditioning giving you that at-home feeling.

Rooms are fully serviced and laundry is done daily to make you feel right at home!

Mount Carmel Safaris is a full-service guest farm located in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.

Mount Carmel Safaris is a full service guest farm located in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Mount Carmel Safaris is owned and operated by Andries van Zyl, a qualified professional hunter and tour guide. His family approach to both hunting and non-hunting guests is tailored to produce an unforgettable African experience in a “home away from home” atmosphere.

From our farm you will have a wide range of activities available including photographic safaris, horseback riding, hiking, cave diving, and swimming in a spectacular natural sinkhole. The sinkhole, named Boesmansgat, is the largest of its kind in world and second deepest at about 300 meters.

Join us in this extra special piece of the world under a star-studded sky around a tranquil camp fire surrounded by night sounds of the game.

Huntable Game Species in South Africa

• African Lion
• African Warthog
• Aoudad Ram Barbary Sheep
• Axis Deer
• Black Faced Impala
• Black Springbok
• Black Springbuck
• Black Wildebeest
• Blackbuck
• Blue Wildebeest
• Burchells Zebra
• Bushbuck
• Bushpig
• Cape Buffalo
• Cape Eland
• Cape Kudu
• Cape Springbok
• Common Blesbok
• Common Blesbuck
• Common Duiker
• Common Reedbuck
• Common Sable Antelope
• Common Springbok
• Eland
• Fallow Buck
• Fallow Deer
• Gemsbuck
• Giraffe
• gold wildebeest
• Grey Rhebuck
• Hartmanns Zebra
• Jackal
• king wildebeest
• Klipspringer
• Kudu
• Lion
• lioness
• Red Lechwe
• Roan
• Roosevelt Sable
• Southern Mountain Reedbuck
• Steenbok Steenbuck
• Steenbuck
• Tsessebe
• Warthog
• Waterbuck
• White Blesbok Blesbuck
• white flanked impala
• White Rhino
• wildebeest