The Week in Pictures : Girl Power. In Celebration of Women’s Day.

Walkers Bush Villa Leopards

This week we’re celebrating Women’s Day by showcasing our female photographers’ images of the wild. The bushveld is rife with powerful females paving the way for the younger generations. Elephants are raised in matrilineal herds comprising all related females born into leadership positions, lionesses are protective over their pride yet they are powerful and ruthless […]

The Week in Pictures : (Kruger) CATS, A Live Broadway Musical

Walkers Leopards Cubs

The Jellicles prance and dance around on stage, putting on quite a performance for their audience. CATS is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and has been going strong since its first show in May 1981. In the Kruger we have a live CATS performance most nights – whether it’s hearing them advertising […]

The Week in Pictures : Summer Backdrops and Crimson Kills

Rock Python Suffocating Hare

When we head out on game drive during the summer season, it’s similar to stepping straight inside an emerald gemstone. The various shades and hues of green provide such a spectacular backdrop for our photographers. So much is happening at our Kruger camps and we’ve enjoyed an array of reports of unique sightings across the […]

The Week in Pictures : Predators and Pretty Things

Othowa Umkumbe Lions

For this week’s “Week in Pictures”, we’re sharing a few recent predator images of big cats. Lions seem to be the theme for this week, leaving the leopards to slink away in the background. We’re offering a showcase of exceptional images from our photographers, highlighting a few of the sightings from the week. In an […]

#10GoodDeeds : Deed No.1 is the “Match of the Klaserie”

Bushveld Tennis in the Klaserie

Today Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal battle it out on the courts of Cape Town in aid of charity (The Federer Foundation). The tickets for the match were sold out in 10 minutes (same amount of time it took McEnroe to lose his temper on court). We used the 10-minute-ticket-sell-out time as inspiration for our […]

The Week in Pictures : Forget Summer in St Barts, Try a Summer in Kruger

Leoaprd at Ezulwini Game Lodges

A relaxing vacation in St Barts seems like a lovely idea during the summer months. But you know where else is equally as relaxing? The Kruger ! Don’t underestimate the daring delights that the summer season in the bushveld brings. Although not considered peak safari season, sightings of big game and predators certainly haven’t dwindled […]

We Replaced Normal Crackers with Eco-Friendly Christmas Crackers

Christmas Crackers in Klaserie

During the course of last year we realised that the much-loved tradition of snapping and cracking Christmas crackers is not particularly environmentally friendly. It’s always been at the back of our minds, but it came to the fore when research indicated that there is a 30% increase in waste over the Christmas period. The last […]

The Week in Pictures 2020 : The Top Wildlife Images of 2019

Umkumbe Lions Drinking

Trawling through a year’s worth of our photographer’s top notch Kruger images was a fairly arduous task, but one that was worth doing. Our photog’s images deserve recognition, so we’ve done our best to select the cream-of-the-crop images from 2019. There were hundreds of images showcasing the beauty of the Greater Kruger, but we narrowed […]

Christmas Cheer and Festive Merriment in the Bushveld !

Happy and Festive Staff

Today is Christmas Day ! For those celebrating, we wish all and sundry a day filled with celebration, love and poignant moments. If you’re not celebrating Christmas, we wish you a happy holidays and enjoyable time ahead. The teams based at our camps in the Balule, Klaserie and Maseke Game Reserves pulled out all the […]