by ecom | Aug 26, 2019 | Reserve, Sightings
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...
by ecom | Aug 19, 2019 | Reserve, Sightings
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...
by ecom | Aug 12, 2019 | Reserve, Sightings
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...
by ecom | Aug 5, 2019 | Sightings
Happy memories of shareholder Martina, where she expected the unexpected: “During one of our visits, we decided to spend a couple of morning drives in the different hides of the Reserve. On the first morning, we went just out on a drive to have coffee in the...
by ecom | Jul 29, 2019 | Conservation, Sightings
For those of you who have yet to encounter him: meet Cheeky, the well-deserved nickname says it all for this elephant bull with crooked left tusk, who loves to challenge you upon an encounter with him. Should you run into him, don’t be fooled by his attitude of first...
by ecom | Jul 22, 2019 | Conservation, Reserve, Sightings
During our two-yearly game counts it’s always striking to see some high numbers of animals that you hardly ever see or only in a far distance. We seem to have a striking number of bush pigs, but most of us have only seen them in a glimpse, let alone have a good shot...
