A few weeks ago I posted a blog story here, how I had the impression that our reserve might be on the way of becoming famous for cheetah sightings. Well, I believe that this impression was more than justified. In fact, I counted, and over the last 10 days, we saw cheetahs an astonishing 7 times. So if you stay with us for 5-7 nights, then you have to be unlucky not to see cheetahs at least once. And what cheetah sightings these are! They are very relaxed, not bothered in the world by our presence, and happy to show themselves for photos. We even saw a mother cheetah with her cub a fortnight ago, so the population is definitely doing very well, and we expect more cheetahs on our reserve going forward. We don’t quite know how many it is, but it is probably over a dozen. Given that only about 300-400 specimen are estimated to be living in free nature in South Africa, this is an astonishing success.

I have decided to post photos of several sightings over recent days, to give you an impression of the high quality and proximity of these sightings.