Safari Starting 26 March 2013

26 March 2013

Route: Nkambeni Safari Camp onto Numbi gate tar down to skukuza for a break.

Animals seen were elephants, rhino, buffalo, ground hornbills, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, waterbuck, impala, kudu, bushbuck, Nyala.

After our break we drove down Paul Kruger Gate road, onto doispane and up albasini to Nkambeni for lunch.

Animals seen were elephants, rhino, kudu, impala, zebra, wildebeest and hippos.

Afternoon drive: 

Route: Nkambeni onto alabasini to Mendel dam up the shabeni link and around shabeni kopies.

Animals seen were hippos, kudu, impala, common duiker, steenbok, elephant, rhino.

27 March 2013

Today we took the same route as the 26th, animals seen were rhino, elephant, kudu, impala, wildebeest, hippo, zebra and buffalo.

28 March 2013

Route was the same as Wednesday with the same sighting experienced. After picking up new clients, we took a drive in the afternoon getting pretty much the same as the previous two days.

29 March 2013

Today was the same route down to skukuza for a break, until Verity and James left us and went through to Numbi gate on doispane and albasini, sightings experienced by them were Hyena, buffalo, ground hornbill, zebra, giraffe, wildebeest, impala, vulture and a juvenile bateleur eagle.

After our break, we went through to marula lop, and found a male and two female lions with their three cubs in the Mahle Mahle causewa. After we finished at that sighting we made our way up Tshokwane tar over the high water bridge and back to skukuza for lunch on elloff street.

30 March 2013 

We left Nkambeni and made our way down the albasini, up shabeni link road, around circle road and down the Faye loop and into Pretoriuskop for a break.

Animals seen were kudu, waterbuck, impala, hippo, dwarf mongoose, elephant, rhino and buffalo.

After the break it was out to napi road, down to Shithave dam and around the napi boulders loop.

Animals seen were elephant, rhino, buffalo and waterbuck.

31 March 2013

Today’s route was the same as Saturday only that we went to manungu kopie and got a female leopard with her cubs. Everything above was seen again..

Afternoon drive:

We collected more guests from Verity and Numbi Gate and went to  Pretoriuskop for lunch.  After lunch we went down napi road to the junction and h3 were we turned around and came back to Nkambeni.  Animals seen were impala, kudu, elephant, buffalo and wild dog just 2.5 Km's from watergat towards the h3.

1 April 2013

This mornings drive was as follows, we went to manungu kopies close to Pretoriuskop camp were we found a leopard with her cubs, we then went down the napi road to skukuza were we found buffalo, elephant, impala, waterbuck and kudu.

After the break and hearing were there was a possibility of some lions, we made our way down the s114 to remoter kopies dam, were we found two female lions lying about 100 meters from us, they were quite active so we spent about two hours there watching them. 

After this we made our way back to skukuza for lunch.

After a lunch stop, we made our way back to Nkambeni getting more elephant as well as six different sightings of rhino.

More updates to come so keep watching.......