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Phinda Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal

COST: $$$$$

To guests staying in one of the seven high-design lodges on-site, the 54,000-acre reserve's teeming wildlife—black rhinos, elephants, cheetahs, and over 380 species of birds—seems to have been there forever. But this biodiversity is the result of an intensive ecological restoration program that transformed scarred and misused farmland into one of southern Africa's most diverse game parks.

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From Travel + Leisure , NOV 2007

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Last updated November 2007