Our most popular tours, by far, are the Joxilox Big5 Safari Group Tours because most of our international guests want to see the Big5 – Elephants, Rhinos, Buffaloes, Lions and Leopards. Over the past 10 years we have spoken to our guests and that is their top priority, followed closely by their wish to be nude as often as possible. The other important item is luxury accommodation with an en-suite bathroom.
Guests also indicated that they do not like to move accommodation often – packing luggage is a "pain". They also do not want to travel too much each day and if it is a long trip then they want to stop and stretch their legs every 2 hours.
With this in mind, we changed our itineraries as from January 2025 to combine the Big5 Safari with luxury accommodation which is either 100% naturist or luxury accommodation which is private enough to be able to be nude. Amanda and I did research and then we designed the updated "Joxilox Big5 Safari Naturist Group Tour". The excursions are also important, so we included the top 10 excursions which our naturist guests liked the most.
This year, the January tour as well as the February tour included the above requirements, and we were interested to see if the new types of accommodation and updated itineraries would impress our guests. SunEden is where we are based and the Dinokeng Game Reserve is only 4 kms away so we included Dinokeng as well as the Pilanesberg Game Park and of course, the Kruger National Park. We added the Desnudo Naturist Resort which had opened less than a year ago and we added the Rhino and Lion Park which is close to Desnudo. We changed our accommodation to more luxurious accommodation in both Pilanesberg and Kruger.
For the first time, we started and ended our tours at Desnudo which is very close to the Lanseria Airport and closer to the OR Tambo International Airport than SunEden, with much better roads. The other advantage was that Desnudo offers meals every day and their meals were "WOW", and their prices were reasonable. There is also no minimum number of guests required so if there are only 4 people, the Desnudo Restaurant would always be open.
The nearest excursion to Desnudo is the Lesedi Cultural Village and the Harties Cableway and not far away is Maropeng in the Cradle of Humankind and the Rhino and Lion Park which our guests enjoyed.
After the first weekend, we drove to Marloth Park which is 18kms from the Crocodile Bridge Entrance of Kruger, but it was a long drive which took about 6 hours including a stop at the Alzu Petro Stop, where there are lots of restaurants and shops as well as many wild animals such as Rhinos, Buffaloes and some large antelope. The Schoemanskloof Pass was beautiful, and our guests noted how the terrain changed as we drove further. We passed coal mines, forests, trout farms, citrus farms, sugar cane farms and banana farms.
