Sounds of the night in camp

My Final safari for the dry season saw my guest and me seeing fifty one different lions in seven days

We see a lioness looking at us from about thirty metres, low to the ground, tail whipping from side to side.

An on-foot encounter with the hyenas of Camp Chitubu feasting on an elephant carcass.

She lunges forward with a grunt and the rumbling gets louder. I quickly say “DON’T MOVE”, we stand for a tense second.

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I turn and look at my two guests with a huge grin on my face. If you don’t feel ALIVE now…you never will!

All is quiet for a minute, then we hear a lion roar a couple of hundred metres in. I turn round to my guests with a huge smile “we going in

Those elephant bulls have just allowed us to be a part of their group for a magical few minutes.

The second pride male appeared with his head held high as he scanned for where this “lion” he could hear was

When a lion roars that close to you, the sound comes from EVERYWHERE!

There it was - a Cheetah standing on the bollard, the dust from the vehicle that had just passed still settling!

It is an incredible feeling to be that close to feeding lions in an open vehicle. The noise of them fighting and growling goes right through

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Paddy then said words that I have never forgotten: “Sit still and enjoy what is about to happen".

Every now and then you have a day to remember, I had one recently... a pangolin encounter!

Lioness encounter on foot. It is the sound of bone and flesh being broken and cut. I call my guests close in and tell them to listen.