2022 Bed & Breakfast: The package includes comfortable private thatched accommodation, a hearty African breakfast, access to the swimming pool, a minimum of one game drive and exclusive use of communal living facilities. Special requests, such as additional meals and day trips, can happily be accommodated. Mountain bikes and outdoor games are welcome.
Self-catering: This popular option offers comfortable thatched accommodation, including access to the swimming pool, communal living area and walks into the bush. Game drives and meals can be arranged.
Tents: Outdoor enthusiasts enjoy the comfort of professionally attired tents with beds, ablutions and hot water. Guests have access to a private boma, kitchen facilities and outdoor seating for meals. Mountain bikes and outdoor games are welcome. Game drives can be arranged.
We are happy to consider any special our unplanned requests for meals, for example, if you would like us to prepare and host a braai at night around the fire with homemade bread cooked on the fire, we are happy to discuss this with you.
If you would like us to buy food and drink for you in advance this can also be arranged.
There is a minimum stay of 2 nights throughout the year if your booking falls on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday night or during school holidays and long weekends.
Only written cancellations will be accepted via e-mail
Please ensure to receive an acknowledgment of cancellations
In the event of a cancellation, the following fees shall apply:
0-14 Days – Forfeit 100% of the booking value
15 – 28 Days – Forfeit 50% of the booking value
29+ Days – 100% refund
iganu is available for hire on a whole or partial basis, i.e., guests can hire the lodge and self-catering tents altogether; or in separate units. Guests prefer however to hire out the lodge for privacy.
We are open to long term rentals for artists, writers, entrepreneurs, retired couples and career break professionals.
High Seasons:
March 21 to May 15
July 09 to July 30
October 1 to 10
December 15 to January 25
Low Seasons:
February 15 to April 23
May 3 to July 9
July 26 to October 1
October 11 – December 15
Rates for children 0 – 5 years old are available upon request and are subject to availability as well as terms and conditions.
Children 6 – 16 years old are accommodated on either a selected evening and morning game drive with their parents. Adult supervision is compulsory.
Adult supervision is mandatory for minors at the swimming pool at all times.
COVID-19
South Africa is currently under the Level 1 safety alert. Guests are required to wear masks and practice social distancing of one and half metres from each other.
We remain alert to advice and direction from the South African authorities. We are open for business, in line with approved regulations and guidance to protect guests, employees and third-party guests. Please engage with us in advance of your booking if you have any questions or concerns. Please e-mail hetty@iganu.com or call +27 (0) 78 383 9182.
Please read https://sacoronavirus.co.za for further information on the current situation.
Sustainability is a way of life at iganu.
We embrace the global and local principles of living responsibly, protecting and preserving our employees, guests and animals.
Our footprint is gentle, non-invasive and guided by practical and achievable environmental and sustainability principles. Our actions are mindful.
Our practices at the villa embrace industry health and safety principles, guidelines from the local authorities to protect people and assets and the safe water and power usage, waste disposal and recycling.
Rates include the exclusive use of the thatched cottage/rondavel with own entrance, the communal areas off the lodge comprising a functional kitchen, bar, lounge, library, DSTV and the indigenous garden. Linen, towels and cooking utensils are included.
A daily maid service is available, subject to prior arrangement.
The lodge sleeps 10 in single and double configurations.
Designed by local craftsmen, iganu, the place of the marula tree, is perched in an indigenous garden under blue skies with year-round sunshine, exquisite butterflies, yellow hornbills and antelope roaming freely in a predator-free environment.
iganu is a short drive away from the one horse town of Marken and four hours from Johannesburg. A part of the Waterberg biosphere in Limpopo, the lodge is cosy, sleeping 10 in well crafted thatched huts and eight in professionally attired tented camps.
Privacy, exclusivity and personal service with friends and family is guaranteed if guests book the entire lodge.