Two Unknown Lions Marking Their Territory in Klaserie

Interesting lion dynamics have hit the Klaserie recently, and this morning was no different! While Africa on Foot guests were out navigating the bush on their morning walking safari with Greg, nThambo Tree Camp guests were trundling through the bush on their game drive, and resident photographer, Kevin, was editing footage in his safari studio. […]

Week in Pictures: Solid Gold

Solid gold could describe the rich ambers and apricots of the sunsets and the sunrises of the bush, or the immeasurable value of the safari offerings in the secret corners of the Kruger Park and northern Botswana. Solid gold is an expression used to describe the best of the best, the most treasured, the most precious. […]

Top Safari Sightings at Africa on Foot and nThambo

We are in the quarter-year holiday phase (already!) and it looks like the bush is in as high spirits as we are about it. The long Easter weekend produced some serious excitement, and game drives at nThambo Tree Camp and Africa on Foot were filled with mud-loving elephants, sneaking leopards, sister lionesses, sunlit buffalo herds, and […]

Week in Pics : Roll on the Festive Long Weekend

Wild Dogs Africa on Foot

The long weekend is approaching and there are many of us looking forward to the well-earned break. If you’re celebrating Easter, then consider these images a gift from the Easter bunny. If you’re not celebrating Easter, then consider this a visual and virtual gift to be enjoyed over the long weekend. Highlights from the Week […]

Week in Pictures: Winter is Coming

Gradually, quietly, the thick summer jungle is thinning out, bronzing, and revealing the timber beneath its leaves. Could it be true? Winter is coming. It seems a particularly difficult summer to let go of this year, after last year’s drought, which all but strangled the life out of Kruger. The summer months brought relief when […]

African Wild Dogs at Sunset

nThambo Wild Dogs

The start of May signifies the end of the impala rut. Rams are exhausted from mating and they roam the bushveld with waning stamina and little emotional energy.  They become weak and vulnerable prey for predators and an easy take-out meal for eager carnivores. Co-indecently, the beginning of May is also the start of the […]

Game Viewing in the Soft Light of the Klaserie Bushveld

Giraffe nThambo Tree Camp

The soft light of the Klaserie bushveld floods the landscape with golden hues and creates a gentle, surreal atmosphere; enamouring onlookers with its ethereal golden glow. Smothering the colourful landscape below with its pastel colours, this is the time of day that heightens our feelings, softens the senses and ultimately gives the bushveld a romantic hazy […]

Week in Pics : The Genius of Genus Panthera

Lion Cubs in Balule

The Felidae family comprises the genus Panthera which refers to lions, leopards, tigers, jaguar and snow leopards. Snow leopards aren’t common in the bushveld; but our precious Panthera pardus (leopard) and Panthera leo (lion) are found in abundance throughout Botswana and Kruger. Now that you’re more aware of the taxonomic hierarchy of our cats, it’s […]

Unusual Sightings in Klaserie : The Eye of the Tiger Snake

Klaserie Tiger Snake

There are estimated to be over 54 species of snakes slithering through the vast Kruger landscape.  These fork-tongued species are gravely misunderstood and, contrary to alarmist belief systems, not all snakes are killing machines. The dangerous, mildly venomous, deadly and harmless variety of snake species can be found in abundance in the Klaserie. Hate them, love […]