Luxury Mobile Safari At Nxai Pan With Cheetah And Lion

I recently did a four night luxury mobile tented safari at Nxai pan in Botswana and as usual the desert provided some of the most amazing game viewing.

Large herds of zebra, oryx (Gemsbok), springbok and spectacular lions and cheetah hunting.

The highlight was searching for cheetah and waiting to see them hunt the springbok. Sometimes we arrived at the scene too late and only seeing the cheetah tare to pieces the remains of their prey.

We were very fortunate to watch a family of four cheetahs, stalk and the give chase in full flight a small herd of springbok, whose baby calf fell prey to the swift cats.We all sat and watched in anticipation of the kill, and when it did happen, we all felt sad as the mother springbok returned in hope to find its baby.

We all felt better later that evening when we saw over fifty baby springboks that hung around with the herds, playing in large nurseries as they pronked with excitement as though it was the joys of summer rains. I imagined that for every calf that falls to predation, somewhere in the plains there were others born.

Nxai pan is a MUST DO safari from December through to end of April, it is teaming with game and provides some of the best game viewing in Botswana during the wet season, especially for cheetah and lion.

Beks Ndlovu