Photographic Journal: The Macro World of Dreams or Nightmares?
The Summer months are generally a time of plenty. With the long, hot days, we are privileged to witness many beautiful plant and tree species flowering, along with other interesting …
The Summer months are generally a time of plenty. With the long, hot days, we are privileged to witness many beautiful plant and tree species flowering, along with other interesting …
One of the most exciting things to witness out in the bush is the process of how a leopard gets its kill up into a tree. Most of us guides out …
“Practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.”- Pema Chodron Animals fully inhabit their bodies. They eat when they’re …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I know the feeling all too well. You spend months planning a holiday and as the time draws near you start looking at weather reports from a whole host of …
When guests ask me how they can take a good photograph, its always a very tricky answer; who’s to say what a good photograph is? What we ultimately strive for …
When speaking to any Londolozi staff member about what they enjoy most about this spectacular place, there is one common theme that comes to light, and that is of family …
Exceptional; this is a word which I often use to describe elephants. And they are just that. They are “unusual, not typical” and “unusually good” members of the mammal class. …
Sitting with the Xidulu female leopard’s two cubs the other day, I was struck by what was for me such a beautiful and reassuring moment. We had found the two youngsters playing …
I’m unashamedly obsessed with all trees but there is one on Londolozi that is not only a firm favourite of mine but also of other humans, lions, leopards, baboons, monkeys and …
The one thing I love most about the bush, is that no two days, and in fact, no two game drives are ever the same. Each time we set out into …
Afternoon tea at Londolozi is somewhat a compulsory legacy from the early days that still lives on! I too, having grown up in an Africa in which this tradition was strongly …