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Thanda Private Game Reserve<\/a>\u00a0was honoured at the Grand Final World Travel Awards, held on 11 January 2012 in Doha, Qatar, with an esteemed award for \u2018World\u2019s Leading Luxury Lodge\u2019 for a third successive year.<\/p>\n

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Thanda, a Zululand<\/a> private game reserve near Hluhluwe<\/a>, has won 12 World Travel Awards in various categories since 2006. The gala event was the grand finale of a year of global regional award events in search of the world\u2019s finest hospitality products.<\/p>\n

To be recognised as the \u2018World\u2019s Leading Luxury Lodge\u2019 three years in a row proves that Thanda’s efforts to excel in luxury and exclusivity is being accomplished. It is amazing that a lodge from Zululand featured among the best \u00a0in the world.<\/p>\n

The winners were selected from more than 5 000 companies in 100 categories across 162 countries and were voted for by more than 210 000 travel agents and guests worldwide.<\/p>\n

Thanda Private Game Reserve is the only safari lodge in the prestigious Leading Hotels of the World portfolio. Situated on 14,000-hectares of wild bush and rolling mountains, Thanda offers guests total privacy and exclusivity in an access-controlled environment where they can view all of the big five game as they occurred at the turn of the century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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