Whether you’re a season traveller or a first-time safari goer, there will always be several safari memories that stay with you. That's the beauty of the African bushveld. Safaris are exhilarating. From the early morning wake up to excitedly heading out, the anticipation of what you may see is never dulled. One thing is [...]
Over the past few months there has been a massive change in the lion dynamics on Shamwari Private Game Reserve. The once proud and dominant Southern Pride has now been diminished to only the beautiful lioness with the blue eye, her sister, the sister’s two cubs and on occasion the two sub adult male [...]
Shamwari Private Game Reserve is home to pristine wilderness where an abundance of wildlife roam. We not only offer our guests 5-star luxury accommodation, we pride ourselves on presenting wildlife interaction that is sure to be the highlight of their stay. Guests have been witnessing some phenomenal game viewing as of late. [...]
The greater kudu is arguably one of the most beautiful species of antelope in southern Africa. This magnificent species is found throughout eastern and southern Africa. Despite occupying such widespread territory, they are sparsely populated in most areas, due to habitat loss, predation, hunting and disease. Shamwari is home to the greater kudu (Tragelaphus [...]
We’ve had a fantastic start to the year with a plethora of exhilarating wildlife activity across the vast 25 000 hectares that is Shamwari Game Reserve. Ranger James Moodie provides us with this month in pictures. The cheetah sub-adults are thriving despite the abundance of lions with two of the prides recently increasing in size. [...]
September 2017 was a significant month for Shamwari. New life was discovered in the form of little lion cubs from one of the older northern lionesses. Although it is not uncommon on Shamwari to see lion cubs. This is the first litter of cubs sired by the new dominant coalition of two brothers in the [...]
The weather this week has been like a yoyo, one day it is boiling, where any chance I get I find myself gravitating towards the walk in freezer at Longlee Manor; and the next day its pouring with rain, the type where one really gets the feeling the universe is emotional, thunder and lightning can [...]
On a clear and cool morning of the 4 January 2015 we headed out of Bayethe lodge down to the southern areas of the reserve to follow up on 4 lionesses that we had seen on our previous afternoon drive. As we arrived in the area and switched of the engine to listen in on [...]
We sometimes see giraffe demonstrating an action called Osteophagia, which involves them eating bones. We’ll see a giraffe pick up a piece of bone from the ground, throwing its head around to reposition the bone into a comfortable position and salivating a little more than usual. They giraffe doesn’t consume the entire bone. It will [...]
Here is the 'behind the scenes' story of how the Lion attacks Giraffe video came about. If you haven't watched it yet, you can view it below. Please note it's not for sensitive viewers. It was just another day at the office for Ranger Jone’ who was on an evening game drive at Shamwari Game [...]