Low Fare Africa

-Another Unusual Sighting comes to us via Thuto Moutloatse of Wilderness Safaris / Safari & Adventure Co. Here is Thuto’s firsthand account of his recent experience at Kalahari Plains Camp:-

Kalahari Plains Camp, Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana
May 15, 2009
Photos courtesy of Thuto Moutloatse

I have just spent the last week in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and had some wonderful wildlife sightings. We had a small thundershower earlier on in the month and in consequence the Kalahari seemed to burst into life. We had good sightings of honey badger, black-backed jackal, groups of bat-eared fox, meerkat (suricates), lion and numerous general game species like gemsbok and springbok.

The highlight of our recent visit had to be that of the cheetah sightings in Deception Valley. There are about three different female cheetah that have cubs of different ages at the moment and we were lucky enough to see them on several occasions.

One afternoon just after the rain had stopped and the sun started coming out from behind the clouds, we set out for an afternoon game drive. There were big herds of springbok and gemsbok in the Valley which made for great landscape photography. (more…)