I have been absent from the safari blog for a few days. But not because we haven’t seen much, quite the opposite actually. We have had very regular and stunning close-up sightings from all of Africa’s famous, and less famous, game.

I have been very busy the last few days on many bookings for our lodge, which is the result of so many excellent reviews we are lucky to be receiving as of late. Well, actually we have always received mostly excellent reviews for the last 5 years, but it seems that the word is getting around that when it comes to affordable, yet top quality African safaris, noone beats us in South Africa. And we are proud of that! We want to enable as many people as only possible to come and visit this fantastic country, with some of the world’s most stunning animals. And so some amazing animals one can see on our huge 36,000 acre private game reserve!

Uyai, our tracker, took these photos yesterday of a curious Jackal, seen on the cut-line to an area called “Leopard’s Bent”, which is located more or less in the middle of the reserve. He was very relaxed, and posed for some beautiful shots up-close, while he was observing us observing him.

As we continued, the lions were found, having taken a liking at this area for the time being too. They were relaxing and napping at one of the many ponds that are now completely full already, as we have had some regular rainfall as of late. The lions were very relaxed and they were more than happy to let us take some amazing shots. Two of the young lionesses, they are sisters, were fooling around, as they are very close to each other. Happy lion family, what a joy!

We had some stunning hyena sightings about three days ago, and I am still chasing the photo footage. As soon as I receive them, I will post them here. It was spotted hyenas, which are very rare, so the joy amongst the rangers and tracker was immense!