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Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
No sooner had we begun bemoaning a serious lack of rain in January than cyclone Dando whipped us with his tail and we received a 65mm downpour in three hours!
Singita Pamushana : December 2011
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
December has delivered good rains, prolific green growth, an abundance of flowers, and a whole kingdom of fungi.
Singita Pamushana : November 2011
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
The rain arrived in all its glory on the first of this month, and not a drop has gone to waste! It’s like all the plants and trees have sprung an overnight surprise party of green on the rain’s command.
Singita Pamushana : October 2011
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
This month has been all about arrivals – many predictable like the return of migrant birds, some delightful like the discovery of newborn leopard and cheetah cubs
Singita Pamushana : September 2011
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
The 22nd of this month saw the second annual World Rhino Day take place, a day devoted to raising awareness about the rhino poaching crisis in Africa, the illegal trade in rhino horn and global rhino conservation.
Singita Pamushana : August 2011
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
The first photograph was taken a few months back and it’s surprising to see how the vegetation has changed from lush green to tan in that time.
Singita Pamushana : July 2011
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
July has been a hive of activity at the lodge and out on game drives, with guests often seeing the “Big Five” within their first few drives, and sometimes even on a single drive!
Singita Pamushana : June 2011
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
“When the moon hits your eye like a big-a pizza pie, that’s amore…”When it glows like molten lava then disappears, that’s a central lunar eclipse.
Singita Pamushana : May 2011
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
Singita Pamushana had been named as the Global Winner in the Conservation category of the World Travel & Tourism Council’s Tourism for Tomorrow Awards.
Singita Pamushana : April 2011
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
They were here for about a week in April, making several impala kills, and have since returned to Gonarezhou.
Singita Pamushana : March 2011
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
When you spend as many hours a day in the bush as resident wildlife documentary filmmaker Kim Wolhuter does, you’re bound to be rewarded time and again with extraordinary sightings
Singita Pamushana : February 2011
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
There are no words to aptly describe the intensity and variety of greens that blanket the landscape this month.
Singita Pamushana : January 2011
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
What a way to begin a new year with the sighting of yet another litter of cheetah cubs!
Singita Pamushana : December 2010
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
Christmas decorations in the form of seedpods, fruits and flowers decorate the trees and plants, and the surrounding vegetation is bright green with envy!
Singita Pamushana : November 2010
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
Mix the mighty and the minute, the swarms and the solitary, the frightening and the fragile, the attention and affection seekers.
Singita Pamushana : October 2010
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
It is achingly dry at the moment, although we’ve been teased with splashes of rain, and well-fed carnivores are reaping the rewards as thirsty, thin herbivores are perilously drawn to scarce water supplies.
Singita Pamushana : August 2010
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
“This month I had an unbelievable thing happen. I was on a drive and there was a zebra herd running in front of the vehicle.
Singita Pamushana : July 2010
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
“The sightings highlight for me was when we found a leopard (Panthera pardus) that had killed and hoisted an impala in a tree.
Singita Pamushana : June 2010
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
The Singita Pamushana team proudly fly the South African flag and mimic the elephants as our booming vuvuzelas compete with their trumpeting trunks!
Singita Pamushana : May 2010
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
Mythology abounds with stories of Scorpio, sting and pincers at the ready, in eternal pursuit across the night skies of Orion the Hunter.
Singita Pamushana : December 2009
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
It happens once in a blue moon and it happened on 31 December 2009…
Singita Pamushana : November 2009
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
The season’s first impish impala lamb was seen frisking about on the 11th and hartebeest calves and many other youngsters have joined in the celebration of life.
Singita Pamushana : October 2009
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
These nothing quite like being woken up with the sunrise streaming in your window and two Yellow-billed Hornbills tapping at the glass.
Singita Pamushana : September 2009
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
The fiery flowers of the Flame Creeper (Combretum microphyllum) engulf their branches as these ‘burning bushes’ advertise the first glimpse of spring.
Singita Pamushana : August 2009
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
The August winds arrived with precise timing bearing the promise of spring to come.
Singita Pamushana : March 2009
Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Zimbabwe
It seems that just when we thought that the rainy season was over, heavy dark clouds descended over Malilangwe and the heavens re-opened bringing a tide of new rains.
