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 After a 3 hour drive from Klein’s camp we finally arrived at the Mara River in the northern Serengeti, we immediately drove along the riverbank searching for a herd of wildebeest that looked as if they wanted to cross. The river was littered with dead wildebeest that had drowned during previous crossing attempts, there were hundreds of vultures...
Posted: Klein's Camp by Andrew Schoeman, Date: 5 July 2008
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 On the evening of the 23rd Dec we were watching a group of sleepy Lions, suddenly we heard Impalas giving alarm calls not too far away from us, we left the Lions and went to investigate, after searching for a few minutes we found a young female Leopard dragging a young Impala that she had just caught towards a Marula tree, the Leopard got to the base of...
Posted: Exeter by Andrew Schoeman, Date: 24 December 2007
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 The pride of Lions had come to investigate the alarm calls of a herd of Impalas, unbeknown to the Lions a Leopard had moments before killed and hoisted a young Impala in a nearby tree, the Lions walked past the tree with the Impala kill in it searching for the reason of the Impalas frantic alarm calls, one of the Lions stopped and smelt the ground, she...
Posted: Exeter by Andrew Schoeman, Date: 24 December 2007
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 On a recent visit to CC Africas lodges in India we were lucky enough to see two Tigers at Baghvan at Pench National park and five tigers at Mahua Kothi at Bandavgarh National park, it was the first time that a particular female was seen with her latest litter of cubs at Bandavgarh and everyone was excited to see the new arrivals, the Tiger is a beautiful...
Posted: Exeter by Andrew Schoeman, Date: 24 November 2007
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 While on a afternoon drive at Baghvan in Pench National park we heard news that a pack of Indian wild dogs had been spotted not far away from where we were, we immediately went to look for them, after about five minutes we saw the first dog trotting along the road, as we got closer the dog moved into the grass and we saw that there were five other wild...
Posted: Exeter by Andrew Schoeman, Date: 24 November 2007
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 While watching a small group of Nilgai (the largest antelope in India) our guide very excitedly pointed out a Jungle cat on the opposite side of the vehicle, everyone turned to watch the Jungle cat as it silently and quickly walked towards the road before crossing,
the cat then briefly stopped to look at us before it trotted away and disappeared behind...
Posted: Exeter by Andrew Schoeman, Date: 24 November 2007
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 After 5 days in the Indian Jungle at Baghvan and Mahua Kothi we had seen a impressive 118 different bird species, it is a bird watchers paradise, there are many bird families that are similar to the birds we see in Africa but there were a huge amount of bird families that we had never seen before, our guides were very good at pointing out the different...
Posted: Exeter by Andrew Schoeman, Date: 24 November 2007
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 On our way back to the lodge after a successful morning drive we saw 2 male yellow billed hornbills fighting, both birds were on the ground and as we watched first one bird and then the other would jump in the air and they would spar with each other using their beaks, there was a third hornbill close by that seemed to be a female, after a few moments of...
Posted: Exeter by Andrew Schoeman, Date: 8 November 2007
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 On this mornings drive we were treated to a great sight of 4 male lions walking down the road towards us, the lions bellies were reasonably full and they probably had fed on a medium sized animal the night before and were on their way to find a comfortable spot to sleep for the day.
Posted: Exeter by Andrew Schoeman, Date: 7 November 2007
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 The 4 male lions walked casually past our vehicle but then stopped and sniffed the air, they all suddenly changed direction and started trotting South and crossed over the river, we drove to a nearby crossing and also headed South, we realised that the lions must have smelt the Wildebeest kill that had been made by a male Leopard the previous day, we...
Posted: Exeter by Andrew Schoeman, Date: 7 November 2007
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