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Chiefs Tented Camps has completed the largest luxury camp ever built inside Mongena Private Game Reserve, a Big Five reserve.

Chiefs Tented Camps created the camp to host the All Blacks’ recent South African tour, Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry.

The camp saw 485 tents, including 320 en-suite Cottage Suites, erected on a completely undeveloped site at Mongena Private Game Reserve to accommodate more than 800 guests. Old School Group helped with the conceptualisation and execution, with assistance from Mongena’s professional team.

The build lands in a milestone year – 2026 marks 30 years since Chiefs Tented Camps began operating in South Africa, the same year the All Blacks first competed in the inaugural Tri-Nations series against the Springboks.

“Nearly 30 years of doing this creates a kind of muscle memory,” Chiefs Tented Camps executive director and co-founder Lysta Stander said. “There is no substitute for having had boots on the ground, learning to read a site, adapting when plans change and solving problems as they happen, because they will happen.”

Other camp highlights

• 900,000 litres of water trucked in, 2.7 km of electrical cable and 1.5 km of water piping laid
• 11,230 meals served and roughly 27,000 person-hours of labour
• When the tour ended, the entire camp was dismantled, and the land returned to exactly the state it had been found in.

While the Mongena build was under construction, Chiefs was simultaneously running its 15th-anniversary Namaqua Flower Beach Camp nearly 1,500 kilometres away on the Atlantic coast, a seasonal tented camp open for just one month a year, with room for only 30 guests.