Design aspects such as that grandiose entrance signal that this is a safari experience unlike most others. Upon turning off the road, all cars drive up to the park’s front gates through a meticulously flooded driveway-a metaphor to do with purity, rebirth, and connecting with nature. After two hours of driving north from Johannesburg into the dusty, spare expanse of Limpopo province, the entrance to Shambala Private Game Reserve feels like nothing short of an oasis (fitting, seeing as shambala is a Sanskrit word for peace).