Week in Pictures: The Greatest Show on Earth

The Week in Pictures is here to ease you into the weekend with an incredible show of wildlife photography from our Kruger and Botswana safari camps. In this week’s edition, The Greatest Show on Earth, we capture the most alluring performances of nature captured on camera over last 7 days. Leopards seem to have been a theme in the Klaserie Private Nature Reserve, while the Sabi Sand has seen famous lions cross into the Umkumbe traverse. Birds of all shapes, sizes, and colours have danced before our eyes, creating mesmerising flashes of colour and leaving us with a lingering song in our ears. This is one way to inspire travel, to discover Africa’s secrets, to admire the wild, and to feel one with the natural world once again.

Africa on Foot, Klaserie Private Nature Reserve, Greater Kruger Park

A leopard assesses the tree she is about to climb as we watch her through the golden foliage

A spectacular watercolour sunset, decorated by a silhouetted roller devouring dinner

Ross Dam pauses to lock eyes with her audience, as she finishes off her hard-earned meal

A elegant stretch of the wing by a saddle-billed stork at the water's edge

Ezulwini Game Lodges, Balule Nature Reserve, Greater Kruger

A brown snake eagle pauses mid-preen to send a golden-eyed glare in our direction

In the presence of legendary Africans...

A lioness from the Mohlabetsi Pride looks at us skeptically from the shade of a weeping wattle

A monotonous lark takes off with a determined soar, while twittering its repetitive melody

Tuskers Bush Camp, Kwatale Conservancy, Northern Botswana

An impressive 'kwatale' giving us the death stare. It's no wonder the Tuskers Bush Camp concession is named after these powerful beasts.

Xobega Island Camp, Okavango Delta, Northern Botswana

A pod hippos warns us against coming any closer... They are the rulers of the river

A fiery sunset ending another day in the Okavango Delta, beautifully.

A white-backed vulture takes off in a blur of feathers from the Moremi 's grassy plains

nThambo Tree Camp, Klaserie Private Nature Reserve, Greater Kruger Park

An electrified sky during a summer lightning storm

Determining her next move from the fork of a tree

An upward glance; analytical, calculating.

You've got to look twice to see the backlit silhouette of this flap neck chameleon, camouflaged by the leaves of the tree

Umkumbe Safari Lodge, Sabi Sand Wildtuin, Greater Kruger Park

A Sparta Pride lioness stalks passed our vehicle in the darkness

Tatowa the leopardess looking every inch the queen she is up on her throne

The striking plumage of a woodland kingfisher, with us only during the summer months