A Birdwatchers Dream
One of the things I most enjoy about summer in the Lowveld is the increase in the amount of waterbodies due to the higher rainfall. The surrounding vegetation is also …
One of the things I most enjoy about summer in the Lowveld is the increase in the amount of waterbodies due to the higher rainfall. The surrounding vegetation is also …
At Londolozi you may know we often take ideas from popular and historic great dishes, some of which include our tagines, our Warldorf salad and our Londolozi Benedict; in turn …
“We do not inherit the world from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” – Native American Proverb. A very rare occasion today as I write a blog that …
Walt Disney’s The Lion King is one of my all-time favourite movies. As a child I would watch it time after time, being amused and enthralled by each scene as …
Working in the Cubs Den, walking between camps is a daily occurrence. Over the past 3 months of being back at Londolozi I have started to take more notice of the …
At the conclusion of another memorable week at Londolozi, I look back and consider myself extremely fortunate to have witnessed such incredible sightings and to be exposed to such a …
Hyenas have always had a reputation of being strange animals. They are one of the few mammal species which have a matriarchal society, in which the females possess genitals which …
There are very few who have done as much in their lives as Pete Fleck already has. Followers of the Londolozi Blog will remember Pete from 2014, when we competed …
I don’t know what I expected but it certainly wasn’t what we got… It was late in the morning and myself along with two other rangers (Fin and Kevin) and …
We set out on morning game drive with a typical initial plan in mind; look for lions. Barely 15 minutes in though, tracker Freddy Ngobeni suddenly raised his hand for me to …
I know how in the modern world we can be slaves to convenience, but with time being of the essence in so many facets of our existence these days, the …
There’s a certain tree scattered across Londolozi’s landscape whose many names – the buffalo thorn, blink-blaar-wag-‘n-bietjie (Afrikaans for “shiny-leaf wait-a-bit”), umLahlabantu (Zulu for “that which buried the chief”), and mbafa …
The exciting news is that we think the Tsalala Tailless lioness might have given birth to cubs. She has not had much luck in raising litters over the last five …
A couple of years ago I was very lucky enough to do a road trip from South Africa all the way up to Uganda and back. Together with four other …
A couple of weeks ago we ran a post featuring some of the best of long-standing guest, Tony Goldman’s bird images. We promised a follow-up post in which we’d feature …