A Thrilling Cheetah Chase
For those of you who have been following the Londolozi posts and virtual safaris over the course of the last few months, you will be familiar with the mother cheetah …
For those of you who have been following the Londolozi posts and virtual safaris over the course of the last few months, you will be familiar with the mother cheetah …
Kay and her good friend Susan come year after year to Londolozi and sometimes more than once a year. They usually go out with the formidable team of Andrea Sithole …
In referencing a previous blog written by Chris Taylor, A 12 Day Safari in Pictures, I agree that there is enormous value in a longer stay at Londolozi. Previously a …
It had been more than a year since I had visited South Africa’s Cape winelands, being unable to move around the country with last year’s national lockdown, I had become …
The sun was still hidden below the Eastern horizon as I strolled into the carpark at Varty Camp. As tracker Life Sibuyi and I discussed our plans for the morning, …
Leopards have continued to take centre stage this this week. The Nkoveni, Ximungwe, Plaque Rock and Ndzanzeni females as well as the Flat Rock and Senegal Bush males were all …
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 …
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 …
First up, the answer to yesterday’s Bird ID Challenge: The three birds in question were Amur Falcons. Almost all of them have departed now for their long migration back to …
This past week has been filled with plenty of excitement. Two leopard den sites were discovered on Monday afternoon! The Nhlanguleni female’s den was found just west of our camps …
(Editor’s Note: We posted one of our Virtual Safaris a few weeks ago in which we featured a tree that had been hit by a bolt of lightning. This post …
This week was mainly about the north, which we can access again after some temporary repairs to the flood-damaged Causeway over the Sand River. The Nanga female was found with …
Guest Willem Kruger has been visiting Londolozi for years. His latest visit coincided with the tail-end of Cyclone Eloise, which unleashed torrential rain on Londolozi and much of the surrounding …
With February generally being our hottest month of the year, we have been relatively lucky to not have had many days warmer than 30 degrees Celsius. The rain has eased …