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The Primal Joy of Walking in the Bush

Nick Sims September 14, 2021 26

All good things must come to an end. I imagine that when the day of my departure from Londolozi eventually arrives, I’ll look back at my time here and smile. …

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Tips From Our Nature Reunion Ambassadors: Part 3

Jemma Thorpe August 19, 2021 9

A Nature Reunion Ambassador is an individual from our very own Londolozi Family. Someone who, on a daily basis, interacts with the reserve, the wildlife and the elements and who truly understands …

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Trevor the Tracker

Robert Ball August 18, 2021 16

During my training and right through to when I qualified as a Londolozi Ranger, a piece of advice that I received numerous times was to ensure that I build a …

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A Leopard Filled Morning I will Never Forget!

Tayla Brown August 17, 2021 3 15

Early one morning we set off in the hopes of finding a leopard and we got a little more than we bargained for. The morning started off with tracker Freddy …

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8 Hours with the Ximungwe Female

Dean De La Rey June 10, 2021 2 15

For the first time in a long time I got a taste of what it is like to spend similar time, that John Varty and Elmon Mhlongo did, with the …

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Joining the Tracker Academy

Dan Hirschowitz March 24, 2021 23

With the lodge having been relatively quiet over the last 10 days, our ranging and tracking team have had the opportunity to involve ourselves in activities which don’t come around …

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Tracking the Avoca Male Lions

Nick Sims March 10, 2021 22

A few weeks ago we witnessed an unusual event in the current lion dynamics here at Londolozi. The two Northern Avoca males marched all the way from their territory in …

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Tracking with Freddy

Dan Hirschowitz January 16, 2021 23

Being a guide/ranger at Londolozi allows you the opportunity to be a part of working teams. Probably the most special of these teams is the one with your fellow tracker. …

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Nature’s Resourcefulness

Josh Attenborough January 11, 2020 8

After following the tracks of the Mhangeni pride zigzag back and forth in the open grasslands of the south-western part of the reserve for most of the morning, we were …

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The Lion Tracker’s Guide To Life

Boyd Varty November 24, 2019 9

“We are not looking for the meaning of life we are looking for the feeling of being alive” ~ Joseph Cambell At Londolozi tracking has been in our DNA for …

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Toiling for Tracks in Black Cotton Soil

Rob Jeffery October 5, 2019 10

It had been a slow morning in terms of sightings, which had seen us traverse the south-western reaches of the reserve all the way to the southern boundary of Londolozi. …

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Celebrating 10 Years of the Tracker Academy

James Tyrrell September 21, 2019 17

Tracking was practiced by our ancestors 10 000 years ago, and continues to be practiced today as an essential survival tool in some of the more remote parts of this …

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A Glimpse into a Mother Leopard’s Day

Nick Sims July 13, 2019 1 14

Sometimes things in the bush just seem to go your way. It was my guests’ last evening drive and we had been really lucky with what we had seen over …

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The Longest Wait: A Hilarious Tracking Story

Rob Jeffery March 21, 2019 26

This is an old story from senior tracker Judas Ngomane. It is a story about tracking lions. It was 9am and the sun was beating down. It had been a …

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Styx Pride Take Down Wildebeest

Grant Rodewijk March 5, 2019 20

With only the lone Tsalala lioness moving around the northern parts of Londolozi, it was almost inevitable a pride would start moving in to take over, and it was most …

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