We'd like to take you on a virtual safari and show you the highlights of staying at Umkumbe Safari Lodge, an affordable lodge located on the banks of the Sand River in the premier Sabi Sand Game Reserve. We're pretty sure these videos will jolt your memory back to your[…]
When you stumble across a stocky, powerfully built cat with black rosettes dotted on its fur, you know it's a leopard. Sightings of the elusive leopard are considered rare - they have a habit of hiding in thickets, up in trees and don't care much for the limelight. When you[…]
This time last year, we reported that we had witnessed red-billed hornbills leaving the nest at Africa on Foot, and now, a year later, the same thing has been recorded, except that this time it was a yellow-billed hornbill chick! Catching this sort of intimate act of nature in action[…]
The Sand River flows and dries up with the change in seasons in South Africa's Kruger Lowveld. As the summer heat creeps in, the epic thunderstorms roll in on through great, purple clouds, and the rains nourish the land after a long, dry winter, and rivers such as the Sand[…]
Nature is an eccentric place where wildlife often breaks free from the documented textbook behaviour and leaves us feeling somewhat bewildered. Just when we think we understand a species, its physical markings and behaviour; you stumble across an anomaly. Marius Zeilinga, a game ranger from Umkumbe Safari Lodge, stumbled across[…]
It is well known that elephants are some of the most intelligent members of the wild population of African inhabitants. Emotional beings with a mysterious reputation for good memory, elephants have been known to carve out age old migration routes that lead to reliable sources of water, and to remember[…]
