Tswalu Game Reserve, South Africa
Insider’s Review of Tarkuni Homestead
Once the home of the Oppenheimer family in Tswalu, their private game reserve, the largest in South Africa, Tarkuni’s understated elegance eloquently bespeaks the family’s multi-generational African roots. Set between two mountain ranges in the soul-stirring, animal-rich vastness of the Kalahari, recently redesigned, exclusive-use Tarkuni is a sublime sanctuary from the too-often unmelodious world into a “a whole world,” Elspeth Huxley wrote, “that revolves in balance with itself more perfect than the finest symphony.” (A world where one of the rare interruptions to your privacy—one that many Micato guests have welcomed: an audience with the reserve’s cheerfully habituated meerkats.)