First rate animal encounter - great family experience! - Supporting wildlife sanctuaries can be a bit of a guessing game in South Africa. Some reserves claim to be sanctuaries but allow touching and petting and feeding or purchase animals who should remain in the wild. Monkeyland is a true sanctuary. It is part of SASSA - a local sanctuaries alliance and endorsed by WildChoices (WildChoices is a non-profit company dedicated to improving the state of the captive wildlife tourism industry). Monkeyland provides a home for primates which were rescued from zoos, labs, circuses or were unwanted pets. Monkeyland is a world leading refuge and the lemurs, monkeys and apes here roam freely. There are awesome opportunities to learn about primate behaviour from the guides, take photos or videos or just watch the animals grooming, feeding and swinging. Our kids are 5 and 8 and they loved every minute of this tour. Warning - please listen carefully to the guides, they advise visitors to put away sunshades and if you ignore them your property is likely to get pinched by some of the clever animals. We loved seeing the White Handed Gibbons and the lanky Black Spider Monkey. Please consider the purchase of a square metre of the Forest on behalf of the monkeys. The goal is that they will eventually own their own home!

Wonderful Experience - What a great couple of hours exploring all 3 parks. Monkeyland - our tour guide Elano was very knowledgeable, educating us on the various primates within the sanctuary. Good to see the work being done to ensure the primates live a happy and safe life. Well done to all Birds of Eden - we strolled round at our own leisure seeing various birds, lovely to finish with the flamingos. Jukani - our tour guide was Elvis, again very knowledgeable, demonstrated compassion for the Big Cats, another inhabitance of the sanctuary. Good sense of humour too. Thank you we had a wonderful experience.

Magical Experience & for a great cause - Wow. 600 monkeys covering 10 species surrounded us in the wild. The trees were alive. Lucky we didn’t get weed on or worse. To see so many different monkeys, large & small, some with babies clinging to their mothers. They did seem unnaturally tame allowing our small group to walk amongst them, but given their history understandable. Feeding stations were where most of the action was. A very memorable visit. Do give a donation to the 1m2 fund if you can before the tour starts.

Had a great time with an abundance of monkeys! - This was a great outdoor adventure to learn and be close with different monkeys. We went during their feeding time so it was very fruitful (excuse the pun) as there were so many monkeys that we could see and some of the rare ones also came out on our guided tour. The sanctuary is beautiful ad it is great to see how they look after these animals who have been abused or abandoned and then putting them in a safe place for them to live well. It is a must for any animal lover!

Fantastic - I loved the time we spent in Monkeyland and would highly recommend it. There are so many monkeys and you can get so close to them without touching and invading their space too much. It was so entertaining and I didn’t stop smiling the whole time. We didn’t have issues with mosquitos after putting on the cream offered at the start point. Our guide was nice and informative too. There were so many lemurs which I loved too. All in all I would recommend this to anyone it was a great experience you’ll travel far to find again elsewhere.

What a day. It was so worth it! - We took the 3 in one and visited all 3 sanctuaries. The guides were very knowledgeable and kept us entertained with their knowledge and stories. Job well done to Itiaan and Elvis. It is really worth the visit and in the same time you support the great work these sanctuaries are doing.

Monkey tour - Went there instead of the elephant sanctuary after reading such terrible reviews on it. The monkey sanctuary was a pleasant surprise. Very good guide and informative. Loads of different monkeys to see up close. Small group in the tour.

Amazing experience. But be prepped for mosquitos. Worth the price. - We had a fantastic time, guided by the exceptional Enrique, who was very well informed and interested. There are loads of monkeys all over the place, amazing to be so close. I loved the gibbons best of all. NB. Wear long pants and socks, the warnings by others on trip advisor about mosquitos are to be heeded. They are merciless. If you are prepared, with appropriate clothing and mosquito repellant, it will be a fantastic experience.

Monkeyland, definitely one for the sightseeing list! - Monkeyland is definitely one for the list as a must see! There are monkeys from all over the world that are being kept as they cannot go back into the wild. These monkeys come from all walks of life including zoos as well as being kept as pets. Monkeyland has become their safe space and you get to learn so much about each species. The guided tour was great fun! Do lather yourself in the mosquito repellent they provide as the mosquitos are relentless especially during summer.

Ironic guide - It was the only day of a 15-day trip that it rained. We know that the weather is something we definitely cannot control and is part of the risk of any trip. However, the establishment could have been much more elegant, telling us that in those conditions the animals hide and we would see few. We would have been better able to decide. Our guide was ironic several times, he was addressing a group closest to him and he was not friendly at ANY time. Even on our way out, we met another guide who was extremely cold and unfriendly. The place is beautiful, the experience with the people was not.