At Rhulani we continue to grow. Our manager Shade-Leigh has a new, private office, which ensures that there is a bit more peace and privacy, and daily work around reservations and administration are kept away from manager’s tasks.

Even guests who come to us repeatedly were quite surprised by this sighting. “What kind of animal was that?” everyone asked themselves as Willlem led the vehicle near the fence line that borders the park and this unusual creature was there and appeared to us to be completely relaxed. A small, dark, cat-like animal. The African bush is home to many little secrets.

Rhulani Safari Lodge announces that we are now once again members of the “African Travel & Tourism Association (ATTA®)”. ATTA promotes travel and tourism to Africa and Indian Ocean Islands from all corners of the world and has over 615 members.

We would have loved to see this Red-crested Korhaan fly into the air and do his typical, spectacular free fall. But we wait in vain. It stays on the ground and looks for food such as seeds and small insects.

Did you know that there can be a car breakdown on safaris? Rhulani’s ranger Willem shows us a nice sighting with two lionesses today, where another safari vehicle no longer started, and Willem was helpful and quickly towed the defective vehicle with a rope. You see, everybody helps each other in the bush!

When the sun disappears over the horizon, we are no longer allowed to visit the cheetahs and shine a spotlight on them. This evening we caught and observed the two Cheetah brothers with the very last rays of sunshine. Wonderful light and the two cats very relaxed.

Today let’s visit the solar plant with the four so-called “tables” that produce the electricity for us. On a warm, sunny day it is surprisingly cool here in the shade under the panels.

Ranger Willem had a tricky task to solve. At first this bull elephant was standing on the road, which he couldn’t get past, and then he even had to put the car in reverse to give the bull the space it needed. But everything went well. Lucky again.

Did you know that small cats sometimes catch birds? “Always expect the unexpected,” says our ranger Alasdair today, and he tells us about a bunch of Lilac-breasted Roller feathers he found, and we start to investigate what might have happened here.

These two different animals are often seen together, in fact they are actually good buddies: the Blu Wildebeest and the Zebra. Here we find the two of them taking a break.