by Melissa Smit | Mar 24, 2017 | Birds, Creepy Crawlies, Environment, Featured Articles, General, Snakes, Special nature events, Tracking, Wild encounters
Feel Africa underfoot on a guided bush walk with a highly-trained game ranger. Bush walks are included in the tariff and offer guests a deeper insight into the best kept secrets of the African bushveld. A bush walk is about exploring certain parts of the reserve to...
by Melissa Smit | Sep 16, 2016 | Aardvark, African rock python, Birds, Creepy Crawlies, Crocodile, General, Impala, Mongoose, Pangolin, Snakes, Vulture, Wild encounters
Kapama Game Reserve is renowned for the rich variety of animals which guests are able to view on an average game drive – and no wonder – as the reserve forms part of a region that has an extremely high biodiversity of animals great and small. This area, called the...
by Melissa Smit | Nov 13, 2015 | African rock python, Environment, Nyala, Snakes, Special nature events, Wild encounters
Watching a python devour a nyala in camp The earth shook as Reazert (my tracker) banged on my bedroom door. “Hang on, I’m coming.” I said, getting off my bed slowly. “You know the African rock python?” He asked. “Yes…” I replied, thinking he was...
by Keri | Dec 11, 2014 | snake, Snakes, Wild encounters
Edited by Keri Harvey Snakes are always a hot topic of discussion among guests and visitors to Kapama. They mostly want to know what types of snakes inhabit southern Africa, which are venomous, and whether they occur around the lodges. As guides, we love seeing these...
by Keri | Aug 14, 2014 | African rock python, Snakes
It averages three to four metres in length, but can easily grow up to six metres long – that’s the southern African python. It’s massive – but even though it’s South Africa’s biggest snake, it’s very elusive and rarely seen in the wild. Earlier this year, I was lucky...
by Johan | Apr 8, 2013 | African rock python, Lion, Snakes, Wild encounters
On a pleasant night safari the other day my guests and I were coming towards the end of the safari drive, when out of the blue we happen upon one of the rarest sightings I have ever experienced. It all started earlier during the drive when we found the young Southern...
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