Nxai Pan Day 6 - Lions & Herds

Today we left later at 7am and we spent an hour driving up and down the camp to reception road looking for lions and found nothing. At 8am I decided just to call it and continue driving further into the park. Past the first water hole and towards Nxai Pan and just before we got there we found a game vehicle that had spotted a lioness.
She was moving away from us and went into the bushes and we were about to leave when she popped back out and brought 2 tiny cubs. We couldn’t believe our luck as she brought them right towards us and into the road and then towards the Pan before ducking back into the bushes to hide her cubs and disappear. Mission accomplished .
I’m glad we saw the lion but overall I’ve been really disappointed with predator sightings here. There’s been no hyena and we haven’t even heard them só they’ve obviously moved on, it could be because of the recent rains, or they are following the migration either way I was expecting to shit myself in camp and that hasn’t happened.
In the afternoon we headed out early and found the biggest heards of Wilderbeast and zebra all with babies só that was impressive. We also found more bat eared foxes, they are common here but that’s a first for us, they’ve always been so hard to find. Today is our last day and it’s been a good one, would we come back? Yes, but probably a different time of the year.Læs mere