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Managed by the provincial conservation authority, the appropriately named Hilltop Camp is the oldest game lodge in KwaZulu-Natal.
It is situated in Hluhluwe sector of the 1,000-sq-km Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve, about 50 km inland from the Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park World Heritage Site. Claimed to be the oldest wildlife preserve in Africa, Hluhluwe-Imfolozi was the royal hunting ground of King Shaka Zulu and his successors for much of the 19th century, and it was gazetted in 1895 as th