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...

Scary moments: charging to protect the breeding herd

If you ask one of our guides which animal they fear most, they unequivocally answer: elephant. Gentle giants usually, but oh so unpredictable if you unexpectedly bump into them where the bush is thick, when a bull is in musth or when the breeding herd is around. In...

The otherworldly looking brown hyena

The spotted or striped hyena takes the spotlight in movies like the Lion King, while the brown hyena usually takes more of the backseat. Although the numbers of brown hyena are rapidly declining in southern Africa, at Limpopo-Lipadi we seem to have quite a number of...