Saturday 19 September 2009

Simba!

Since we had been hearing the lions roaring quite often, both during nights and early in the morning we had for a while expected to run into them. Tracks were evident almost every day but the big cats kept on eluding us… One afternoon, after getting a message on the radio, saying that they were in the same area as we were, we went in search of them. We found them in the dense bush close to the river, a lioness and the famous male, Kalahari, resting during the heat of the day.
The very next evening both groups had another lion encounter, this time two females with a kill and four cubs. At first the cubs seemed a bit shy, but after a while they were playing around with their aunt only a couple of meters away from the vehicles. We spent some time at this exciting sighting and only got back to camp very late this night, hungry but happy.

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