Mount Anderson is an extraordinary 20,000 acre private game reserve set high up in the dramatic mountains of the Mpumalanga Highlands that also embrace the famed Blyde River Canyon. The property offers spectacular scenery and breath-taking views whilst carrying rare and endangered mountain wildlife as well as some of the most unique vegetation in the country. Mount Anderson is all about the rare opportunity of reconnecting again and feeling one with nature.  Guests enjoy game drives, walks, hikes, picnics, swimming at our lakes and waterfalls, fishing, canoeing, mountain biking and horse-riding all in the company of our expert guides.  The reserve is also steeped in a kaleidoscope of history and guests are taken on fascinating ‘journeys’ going as far back as the Stone Age, through ancient African tribal history  to the Anglo Boer War and frantic Gold Rush mining days of the last century.

In a secluded valley overlooking crystalline trout ponds, the luxurious rambling farmhouse, Golden Cottage, offers only 5 en-suite bedrooms and is perfectly equipped with every amenity with guests enjoying personal unobtrusive service by an exceptional team of dedicated staff who have been part of the “Mount Anderson” family for many years.

Well known for being passionately dedicated to wildlife, land and water conservation in Africa, the late Michael Rattray purchased the reserve in the 1980s to fulfil a dream to restore the land from domestic overgrazing to its original ecological splendour. Successfully proclaimed in 1990 as South Africa’s first-ever private water catchment reserve, Mount Anderson is a classic conservation story and today protects some of the major river catchments that are the lifeblood of the Kruger National Park and local communities in the region – a legacy and a responsibility that has been passed onto the next generation of the Rattray family.  This kind of sustainable tourism is more crucial than ever before.