We enjoyed a whole lot of cuteness this week so only right to start this blog with these...

We spent a great amount of time tracking a cheetah with 3 cubs and were eventually successful. What looked like three honey badgers, was three of the smallest cheetah cubs and newest members to Sabi Sabi!

Patience is key when on safari. A keen eye and a good sense of where this female would be heading, we waited patiently in an open area ahead of quite a thick drainage line. With a few moments of silence, we were rewarded with a spectacular sighting of Ntsumi’s cubs venturing out, rather inquisitively, towards mom.

We found N’weti male leopard on his morning patrol around his territory. He got the scent of another leopard and his pace quickly changed from a morning stroll to a quest to find out who was there the night before. We found both male and female leopard tracks on the route that he took.

Just as we decided to head back to the lodge, we came across this young female leopard. She was following a duiker she’d spotted in the distance but was unlucky in her hunt and let out a raspy call, potentially calling for a mate or announcing her presence in the area.

Kigelia used a Marula tree as a vantage point to spot prey. She spotted a herd of impala and went into full hunt mode.

Like mother like daughter. Kigelia female leopard and her one cub were on a mission. They were moving down the road and every now and then the cub would look back at its mother to see if she was still there.

Fresh lion tracks in the morning are exciting for guests and guides, but no one gets more excited than trackers. It's a joy to watch their faces light up and get into the rhythm of thinking like a lion and tracking them down.

Late on during one of our morning safaris, we came across a pride of lions resting. A short distance away, one of the lionesses was mating with a N’waswishaka male.

We headed out in search of lions and were lucky to find tracks of a lone lioness after one of our staff members had seen her on the way to work. What a great start to the morning’s safari.

The Styx Pride on a Blue Wildebeest that they killed moments before we arrived. There was a big struggle for all the cubs and three females to find a place around the kill. After feeding for some time, one of the cubs that got the back end of the wildebeest, came to mom for a face clean up. The following morning, they all looked content with their very full bellies!

A few days later, they were seen again, on another wildebeest kill!

There is never a dull moment when you come across a breeding herd of elephants as the youngsters are always great to watch. This herd was busy feeding, and it was incredible to watch the youngsters mimic their parents and learn how to use their trunks.

Warthogs always run away when we get closer to them in the vehicle or on foot, but this warthog and family was different as they stood watching us, between feeding, allowing for a great sighting.

Just as the sun had gone down this Verreaux's eagle-owl flew to an open Knobthorn tree just off the road and posed beautifully for us.

Big male hippo with a terrapin hitching a ride. Terrapins sometimes use hippos as a sunbathing platform, and his head seemed like the perfect spot!

A number of different vulture species were waiting patiently to secure themselves a meal by grabbing some scraps of the wildebeest which the Styx Pride had killed.

We happened to be in the right place at the right time as this bull elephant passed through and tried to pick up the remaining bones of a buffalo carcass, an interesting sight indeed.

This young hyena came close the vehicle as we stopped to view some impala on an open area. We manage to spend some time with the youngster before it heard some impala calling from a distance and headed off to investigate.

A beautiful start to the morning with a sunrise and a large herd of buffalo.

Until next time