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Want to know how much it costs to hunt in South Africa? Our hunting packages start at $2,950 for a cull hunt. Our Hunter Starter trophy package is $4,900 for 5 days, 6 nights, including five species, accommodation, meals, and professional hunting services. We tailor your hunting safari to meet your trophy, adventure, and hunting…

Eastern Cape, South Africa What you need to know before hunting warthog at Rocklands Hunting warthog in South Africa is an experience of a lifetime. At Rocklands Safaris in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, you hunt across a mixture of open ground, hills, valleys, and dense bush. Warthogs make good use of that cover. A boar…

Hunting eland in Africa is the adventure of a lifetime. A mature eland bull is one of the most impressive trophies you can hunt in Africa. He is Africa’s largest antelope, with the body mass of a large bovine, heavy spiral horns, a thick neck, and the stamina to cover difficult country surprisingly quickly. His…

A field guide to hunting gemsbok in the Eastern Cape Gemsbok hunting is one of the best plains game hunts you can add to a South African safari. The animal is beautiful, sharp-eyed and built for rugged country. The horns are long and clean. The body is heavy through the chest and shoulder. The hunt…

Hunting kudu in South Africa is one of the most respected plains game experiences you can have. A mature kudu bull is big, wary, well-camouflaged and difficult to stalk. He uses thick cover, broken ground and wind to his advantage. He can stand still in the bush and disappear in front of you. That is…

Bow hunting in Africa asks more of you. You need patience. You need quiet feet. You need discipline when a good animal steps in and your heart starts doing its own thing. You need to know when to draw, when to hold, and when to let the animal walk. That is why bow hunting in…

You do not book hunting in South Africa on a whim. You ask the practical questions first. What can you hunt? When should you come? Can you bring your own rifle? What is included in the package? What does a safari actually look like once you land? Those are the right questions. At Rocklands Safaris,…

By Simon Harvey (PH). Africa is the hunting continent. There’s no other place on earth where you can walk into a sunrise and have kudu tracks crossing the sand, hear guinea fowl calling from the thickets, and watch herds of game feeding across open plains like something out of a documentary. For many hunters, an…