Big 5 safari sightings for the week of 19-25 Feb ’23

Sunday 19 February 2023

  • A single Masungulo male with 5 Kudyela lionesses and 5 cubs all resting at hongoni road
  • 4 Black rhino
  • 30+ Elephants feeding at 1/2 cutline
  • 20+ Elephants moving south west over cheetah plains
  • 20+ Elephants feeding at 8/9 cutline
  • 5+ Elephants drinking at ngala dam
  • 1 Black rhino bull

Monday 20 February 2023

  • 5 Kudyela lionesses with 5 cubs and 1 Masungulo male resting at hongoni road
  • 20+ Elephants drinking at ngala dam
  • 30+ Elephants drinking and feeding around xigamba dam
  • 1 Bull elephant south of nyari dam
  • 2 Kudyela lionesses with 5 young cubs resting at Billy’s lodge
  • 1 Buffalo bull resting in the mud at nyari dam

 

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Tuesday 21 February 2023

  • 1 White rhino bull
  • 30+ Elephants feeding at kwarri road
  • 2 Young lions resting on reguit pad south of Toni’s dam
  • 1 Leopardess west of xigamba dam heading east
  • 1 Lioness resting at rome 5
  • 1 White rhino bull

Wednesday 22 February 2023

  • 9 Wild dogs heading west from nonwane
  • 30+ Elephants drinking and feeding around xigamab dam including the Ezulwini bull
  • 20+ Elephants feeding north of xingalana road
  • 1 Leopardess (Black dot) heading south from xigamba dam
  • 2 Young lions heading south from Toni’s dam
  • 20+ Elephants feeding at barnard
  • 2 Buffalo bulls resting at Robbie’s road

Thursday 23 February 2023

  • 1 Leopardess (Faka Nchovela) heading north from rhulans road
  • 4 Kudyela lionesses and 5 cubs resting at Andre se pad
  • 2 White rhino bulls
  • 20+ Elephants feeding around xigamba dam
  • 1 Young male lion feeding on a waterbuck carcass at river lodge main
  • 15+ Elephants feeding at jika-jika

Friday 24 February 2023

  • 30+ Elephants feeding at torra road
  • 1 Spotted hyena heading west on mamba road
  • 1 Leopardess (Faka Nchovela) feeding on an impala carcass at E/W cutline
  • 1 White rhino bull
  • 1 Lioness resting at 4/5 cutline

 

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Saturday 25 February 2023

  • 30+ Elephants feeding at impala weg 5
  • 1 Leopardess (Faka Nchovela) still feeding on the impala
  • 2 White rhino bulls
  • 2 Lionesses with 1 young male resting at Robbie’s road
  • 1 Masungulo male resting at dlamithi sodic soil
  • 30+ Elephants feeding at xindzele road
  • 2 Buffalo bulls heading north west from nchololwane
  • 1 Spotted hyena heading west from the lodge
  • 15+ Elephants feeding north of venture camp dam

These were all the amazing sightings seen on safari for the week ending 25 February.