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Wildlife Art in Tsetsebjwe
Limpopo-Lipadi shareholder and artist, Alison Nicholls leads multiple safaris every year for people from all over the world to teach them how to draw and paint while enjoying the bush and its animals.
Too close for comfort: held hostage by 13 elephants
Game viewing was calm, very calm. All the radios were quiet, apart from the guides chatting and updating each other in Setswana, as usual. So instead of trying to find the animals, we decided to let them find us while sitting safely sheltered in one of...
A hike along the mighty Limpopo River
Limpopo-Lipadi is proud to have 14 kilometres of beautiful Limpopo river frontage, with its precious ecosystem and riverine trees and bush. Due to dams more upstream and some years of less than expected rains, the river runs almost dry in the winter, but in summer the...
At last we found the cheetahs
While on the look-out for a good viewing of the lion pride, shareholder Woody got a much better surprise during one of his evening drives: Limpopo-Lipadi’s two cheetahs. This is such a rare sight that there are enough shareholders who’ve never put eyes on them during...
Up in the air for the game count
Being an enclosed reserve means that we have to keep track of the number of animals, and particularly the balance so that the animals and, in fact the whole ecosystem stays healthy. A game count is performed every other year and this year’s event was slightly...
Early morning lion roars
Sometimes you are woken during the night or in the early hours of the morning by a sound that can be so unsettling that your limbic system responds with shivers before your mind realises it is… a lion’s roar. Although it may sound like the lion is at your doorstep, he...