Appreciating the small things in life

Often the only focus on game drives are big furry/hairy stuff. The focus is always on finding, lion, leopard, elephant etc… But as the earth begins to warm up, sometimes all goes quiet in the bush. This is the perfect time to spend some time at a waterhole and observe...

4 Day Shareholder’s Guiding Course

As a shareholder of Limpopo-Lipadi you have the perks of ‘sitting’ front row with our special activities like bush and rhino walks. Or as in this instance: a four-day guiding course. Ian, one of the lucky shareholders, shares his account of this amazing experience....

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...

Morning traffic Limpopo-Lipadi style

While a good many of us probably spend quite some hours of the week commuting to work and cursing the traffic jams that are inevitably part of our rush hours, we at Limpopo-Lipadi have a different take on that morning traffic. While sitting in one of our hides with...

Herald the first rains

On the Reserve we literally have hundreds of baobab trees that have seen hundreds, if not thousands, of years pass. The stories they could tell… As you drive around the Reserve during this time of the year, you slowly see the first green leaves appear on those...
Gentle giants on our doorstep

Gentle giants on our doorstep

Just after lunch while reading a book at the riverfront, a herd of 12 elephants emerged, making their way to the Limpopo River. So very quiet as they move carefully but swiftly through the bush. The only sound you hear is the crackling of branches, the soft feeding on...