![Umkumbe Safari Lodge, Sabi Sand, Greater Kruger Park It’s been another week for the books with remarkable leopard activity, dust bathing elephants and impressive antelope to take our breath away. Take a look at the latest on the newcomers if you missed it this week: Africa on Foot, Klaserie Private Nature Reserve, Greater Kruger Park […]](https://www.sundestinations.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inyathini-370x275.jpg "Week in Pictures: Spots, Stripes, and Scales on Safari")
Week in Pictures: Spots, Stripes, and Scales on Safari
Umkumbe Safari Lodge, Sabi Sand, Greater Kruger Park It’s been another week for the books with remarkable leopard activity, dust bathing elephants and impressive antelope to take our breath away.[…]
![We speculated that things would heat up in the Klaserie with the presence of Mabande, the rather brazen lion who is making his presence known on our turf. We questioned what the Trilogy would make of Mabande and how they’d react to their territory being invaded. Our speculation has now turned into cold, hard fact. […]](https://www.sundestinations.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IMG_8882-370x275.jpg "Klaserie Lion Fight: Mabande Grapples with the Trilogy Boys")
![Isn’t it fantastic when you’re in the right place at the right time? Photographer Em Gatland was on assignment at Africa on Foot and nThambo Tree Camp when a lion pride took down a buffalo outside the wooden chalets at nThambo Tree Camp. The elephant herds, becoming somewhat jealous of the lions being in the spotlight, […]](https://www.sundestinations.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/nThamboLion-370x275.jpg "When Animals Walk Through the Klaserie Camps")
![The ever graceful leopardess, Hlarulini, travelled from the south of Sabi Sand reserve and was spotted patrolling the traverse around Umkumbe Safari Lodge. The first sighting of Hlarulini was of her hoisting a stolen kill into a tree for safekeeping. The fresh kill was abandoned by White Dam and Hlarulini, being an opportunistic leopard, hoisted the meaty impala into […]](https://www.sundestinations.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/HlaruliniMauritz5-370x275.jpg "Portraits of Umkumbe’s Leopardess Hlarulini")
![Welcome to this week’s instalment of week in pictures, which is a mixed bag of wildlife delights. Plains game, big herds and predators have been quite present this week throughout our reserves. Without further ado, here are our favourite pictures from the week. Ezulwini Billy’s Lodge and Ezulwini River Lodge Both lodges have had a […]](https://www.sundestinations.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/MG_7552-370x275.jpg "Week in Pictures : A Mixed Bag of Wildlife Delights")
![Welcome to part two in the Mabande male lion saga – this time, things have heated up and excitement is mounting. The Mabande male, who we’ve recently introduced to our guests, is certainly settling into the Klaserie way of life. His presence is having a trickle down effect on the resident lions on the Africa on Foot and […]](https://www.sundestinations.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/MabandeAfricaOnFoot-370x275.jpg "Update: Male Lion Mabande Mates with the Ross Lionesses!")
![If the hyenas are the clean-up crew of the safari world, then vultures are the grim reapers. When you’re on safari and you see a wake of vultures hovering above an area, you have that foreboding sense of death in the air. Hyenas surround a kill site, waiting in the wings for meaty morsels and bone […]](https://www.sundestinations.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/VulturesHyenas10-370x275.jpg "The Grim Reapers & the Safari Clean-up Crew")
![We seem to have plenty of scavenger sightings in conjunction with our big cat sightings. I guess that’s just the nature of the beast! Cats are always on the hunt for food and scavengers are always waiting in the wings to pick up available scraps and dine out on carrion. Scavengers serve a vital role […]](https://www.sundestinations.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/WIPnthambohyena-370x275.jpg "Week in Pictures: Big Cats and Scavengers")
![The rangers from Umkumbe Safari Lodge have sent in numerous reports of leopard sightings. The reports are coming in thick and fast, and we’re battling to keep up with them! Umkumbe is located in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve, which offers visitors premier game viewing opportunities. In conjunction with being a lighthouse for conservation in […]](https://www.sundestinations.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Hlarulini2-370x275.jpg "Marius Zeilinga’s Phenomenal Umkumbe Leopard Update")
![As the seasons have shifted, so have our lion pride dynamics. Being based in an area sharing unfenced borders with the Timbavati Game Reserve and the Kruger National Park means plenty of scope for nomadic lions and lion prides to move around. Prides split, new males patrol territories, old males mate with rogue lionesses and […]](https://www.sundestinations.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Mabende2-370x275.jpg "Klaserie Lion Catch-up: NEW Male Lion in Klaserie")