A Treasured Moment With the Ximungwe Female and Her Cub
One evening on our way back to camp, we came across the Ximungwe female leopard. She was making her way into an area that we knew she had been making …
One evening on our way back to camp, we came across the Ximungwe female leopard. She was making her way into an area that we knew she had been making …
Having missed winter in the bush last year, the crisp air we are starting to experience in the mornings gets me excited. Growing up, I only got to experience the …
Many guests have asked me what do leopard cubs do when their mother leaves them at their den site? The mother leopard, in this case the Picadilly female will leave …
Midway through the doldrums of last year’s lockdown, Bronwyn Varty-Laburn wrote an interesting blog post on the changing trends of travel and how the safari industry is in fact perfectly …
This week was all about spots; from leopards to pearl-spotted owls to cheetahs and then giraffes, the patterned animals were taking centre stage. We mention two previous virtual safaris in …
Often at the start of a yoga class I like to begin by lying down and then begin to practice a breath meditation. Guests often shoot me a slightly bewildered …
True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A conversation I had recently reminded me the importance of living in …
Over the past few weeks, we have had many encounters with these amazing canids. When the wild dogs are around there is always a sense of excitement amongst the guiding …
The end of 2020 saw many a guiding team (ranger and tracker) and their guests viewing an unusually high number of mating pairs of leopards around Londolozi, which is very …
As I’m sure many of you read in Chris Taylor’s recent TWIP, he mentions the finding of not one but two new leopards dens. The Ximungwe and Nhlanguleni females have …
According to the Biomimicry Institute, biomimicry can be described as “the scientific, research-based practice of learning from and then replicating nature’s forms, processes, and ecosystems to create more regenerative designs.” …
From an intricate spider’s web to a big herd of bovines, as well as what we believe to be THE iconic African safari experience, this week delivers the goods, as …
Rainy and windy conditions, of which we have had a fair amount of late, do not bode well for leopard viewing. The elusive felines often choose to hunker down in …
This week has been an exciting one with the lion dynamics taking a very interesting turn. Lion viewing had been somewhat thin, with the Ntsevu pride seemingly having disappeared overnight, …
Early one misty morning, something in the corner of my eye caught my attention. At first I thought it might have been the stump of a fallen tree, but as …