The Ndumo Game Reserve lies west of the Tembe Elephant Park on the border to Mozambique thus being the remotest nature reserve in KwaZulu-Natal. The great natural beauty of this 10,000 hectare park is nevertheless worth a visit. The rivers Usutho in the north and Pongola in the east provide widespread wetland areas, lakes and pans, picturesquely lined by fig trees and the greenish-yellow fever trees, which were in the olden days falsely believed to cause malaria. Between the wetland areas mainly lies grassland, Acacia bushland and forest.
