Nkambeni Safari Defender
Fleet vehicle 14 of Nkambeni Safari Camp's game-drive Defenders inside Kruger National Park: green coachwork with a yellow stripe, a high canvas canopy over tiered passenger seats and the camp's fleet number on the side, one of a line of them photographed at the lodge in September 2012.
History
Nkambeni Safari Camp sits inside the Kruger National Park near the Numbi Gate, on a concession that gives it the right to drive guests through the park's south-western corner. Its fleet is Land Rover Defenders converted for game viewing — the body behind the cab rebuilt as tiered rows of forward-facing seats under a high canvas canopy on a tubular frame, in green with a yellow stripe along the flank, each numbered so that the camp can marshal a line of them at dawn. The photograph by the Commons contributor Ossewa, taken on 23 September 2012, shows several drawn up at the lodge.
The registry's model follows vehicle 14. Who built the game-viewing bodies, which engines the fleet carries and how many vehicles Nkambeni runs are not published; the conversion trade in South Africa is local and largely undocumented, and the registry's Defender 130 safari record covers the type more generally.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover
- Manufactured
- Defender 110 fleet in service by September 2012, when photographed
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- South African game-viewing conversion (converter not recorded)
- Engine type
- Defender 110 — 300 Tdi, Td5 or Puma by year; not stated in the source
- Production run
- Small fleet — several vehicles photographed together; total not published
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom / South Africa
- Operated in
- South Africa
- Status
- in service
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Model line
- Defender
- Wheels
- 4
- Nominal wheelbase
- 110″
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Sources & citations
Researched sources
- File:Land Rover Defenders Nkambeni.jpg (Land Rover Defenders at Nkambeni Tented Lodge, Kruger National Park, South Africa; photographed 23 September 2012 by Ossewa; CC BY 4.0) ↗ — Wikimedia Commons (accessed 2026-09-11)
- Land Rover Defender buyer's guide (200Tdi 1990–94; 300Tdi 1994–98; Td5 1998–2007; Puma from 2007) ↗ — Classics World (accessed 2026-09-11)
Catalogue references
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Land_Rover_Defenders_Nkambeni.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Land_Rover_Defenders_Nkambeni.jpg ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-11T03:15:39.699Z · status: researched