This reserve is the home of the Baden Powell Boy Scout Movement. The main attraction is game, particularly plains game, and visitors can with relative ease observe species such as giraffe, small and large antelope, buffalo, rhino, zebra, warthog and ostrich. Birdlife Birdlife is prolific with many species of the waxbill and finch families. Accommodation Situated close to the Park is a complex of chalets offering comfortable rooms.
Breakfast is the only meal that is supplied.
However, there is a well-established restaurant with mouthwatering meals on its menu. Situated adjacent to Mafikeng Game Reserve on the Molopo River is Cookes Lake. Here visitors will find a unique system of using recycled water to keep the dam full. Plans are afoot to build a Boy Scout centre to commemorate the founding by Baden Powell of this movement in 1899. There is a large selection of waterfowl resident on the lake.