Timbavati Reserve, Leopard Orchids It’s not only about the Big 5 when you come and visit the bush. There is a very special plant you must she when you come and visit Shindzela…. The Leopard Orchid, Timbavati Reserve Orchids are an ancient family of plants comprising of about 18000 species worldwide. The Leopard Orchid is [...]
Lions of the Timbavati Game Reserve
Timbavati Game Reserve – lions The Timbavati Reserve is home to Shindzela Tented Safari Camp, and this week we have had excellent lion sightings and would like to share our images – all taken by Monika who has been guiding in camp. Earlier, this week, lions killed a buffalo, and various different lions have been feeding off this [...]
Timbavati Game Reserve, Hyena’s
The Hyena’s in the Timbavati Game Reserve - are they cats or dogs? This is a question I often get asked while out on a game drive with guests, and the answer is actually very simple. They are neither! Hyenas are hyenas, members of the Hyenidae family, while cats are members of the Felidae family and dogs [...]
Shindzela Camera Trap, Timbavati Reserve
Camera Trap in the Timbavati (We are transferring some of our old posts to our new website – this is a post from June 2011) Here are some images our camera trap caught lurking in the front of the camp
Crazy Rhino day, Timbavati Reserve….
9 March 2011 A crazy rhino day today in the wonderful Timbavati Reserve – I don’t know where they have all come from but no less than 12 different rhino on the morning and afternoon drive – we must try and get some identity kits on the go and see who’s who. A breeding herd of [...]
March madness in the Timbavati Reserve…..
3 March 2011 – A young male leopard at Piet se Pan (Shindzela, Timbavati Reserve) during the afternoon drive. A relaxed male rhino at main dam and a small breeding herd of elephant on main dam road. 4 March 2011 – Female leopard close to main dam – possibly the mother of the cub that we [...]
Let sleeping lions sleep……
1 March 2011. – One of the best morning game drives ever at Shindzela. Left the camp early and got a fantastic male leopard at main dam- drove down the Kruger Park Cut Line and bumped a group of 5 giraffe. While watching the giraffe, 3 rhino appeared out of the bush. After a great rhino [...]
Lions Calling, Shindzela Tented Safari Camp
28 Oct 2010 – Greater Kruger Park, 2 x male lions near broken dam, 1 large male hippo and warthog at the big dam. This afternoon we had an excellent drive; waterbuck on the western cutline, and 3 male giraffe in the same area. A group pf 3 male and 2 female white rhino on [...]
Timbavati Reserve, Shindzela Walking Safari….
26 Oct 2010: Big herd of buffalo in Nyati drive (Timbavati Reserve) – the herd is very nervous. Suspect that the lions harassed them all night. No sign of the lions this PM, but the mother leopard of the two cubs born in Dec 2009 at the dam. Extremely relaxed and came to drink right in [...]
Lions vs Hyena’s, Greater Kruger Park
15 October 2010: Very cold and windy conditions. No ideal for game viewing. Very pleased to see large buffalo herd some 400 animals strong. Nice white Rhino bull sighting on pump road Timbavati Reserve. Pm drive – weather still bad, but took blankets on drive for guests. Giraffe at sundowner spot (or rather coffee with [...]
The Hide - Sleep Out
