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Out on a special bushwalk with Extra
As a shareholder and guest at Limpopo-Lipadi you have the perks of sitting (or in this case: walking) front row with some of our unique activities, like going on a bush walk with our recently arrived tracker Extra (or his brother Service). Extra has joined us from...
Havoc in the hammocks
Ever so regularly we get a gentle reminder that at Limpopo-Lipadi we are really out in the bush and possibly 'trespassing' in the territory of our wildlife. Or sometimes just making it easy for them to find a meal on the premises. We have all learned lessons the hard...
African wild dogs sneeze: let’s go for a hunt!
At the end of a windy and rather cold afternoon, just before sunset, we ran into one of our wild dog packs at a waterhole. Like most carnivores, wild dogs sleep a lot. The ones we have on the Reserve are no different – in the hot hours of the day they find shade, they...
Feeling so privileged: bush walk with our rhinos
Just imagine: early morning, somewhere in the Reserve, lots of talking in Setswana on the radio, the anti-poaching team busy trying to locate the whereabouts of our white rhinos… And then: tracks that were found, meaning that there may be some rhinos in the vicinity....
Play or fight? That’s the question…
At Limpopo-Lipadi we are lucky to have a healthy population of giraffes, which are a regular sight in all seasons. You see them practically every day, while they tower over the bush and move elegantly through the thick mopane forests or on the open plains, looking for...
Introducing Extra, who brings invaluable tracking skills
The world’s greatest trackers, the San peoples of the Kalahari, are peoples who grew up tracking African wildlife in the bush. They have been employed around Botswana by big game hunters, safari operators and researchers as unparalleled detectors in this environment....