After what feels like a long, hard winter, we welcomed the warmth this month with open arms and faces upturned to the sun's rays. The mornings and evenings have remained cool, but the days have been fabulous. Even the swimming pool, which has been painstakingly cared for during the cold winter months, was well visited with midday temperatures often verging on a comfortable 30°C.

As the landscape begins to dry up, walking safaris have been popular, with many guests being privy to sightings of rather intimate interaction between the lions during their walks! Our bush brunches have also been a huge hit, with guides and hosts having a hard time getting guests to return back to camp after a festive meal in the best 'dining facilities' imaginable! Our guests have been touched and moved by the effort and thought that gets put into these special surprises - nothing like having a good stroll to work up an appetite only to come round the corner in the African bush and find the waiters and chef awaiting you with a mouthwatering array of salads, fresh breads and divine pasta, not to mention the ice cold drinks to quench the thirst.

The wildlife this month has, yet again, not let us down. Game viewing has been outstanding, with almost all our guests having a feline sighting of some kind, if not all three of the most exciting predators (lion, leopard and cheetah). The lions have been feeding themselves well, with several sightings of lion on a kill - the biggest and smelliest being a hippo! Bonus sighting on the very last day of the month was a pack of wild dogs with three miniature pups with the biggest ears ever!

Our resident elephant bull can literally be classified as part of the camp landscape as he now spends his days harassing the palm tree near the main area and kitchen for its delicious nuts. He is clearly very comfortable and at ease in camp and one morning he decided he'd take a nap. After a good fill of nuts, and a few gallons of water from the river, he found himself a little mound in the thickets right by the staff village, lay down and had a good snooze. Typically all our photographers were absent at the time so we were unable to get a snap of this enormous beast lying on his side! As beautiful and breathtaking a sight as it was, we were nonetheless all relieved and when he did eventually get up and meander down into the bush again leaving our camp palm trees safe again!

No day is the same as the next in the bush. Every animal, each bird and the daily sunsets each have their own beauty and charm - we definitely continue to appreciate this wonderful piece of Africa we call home. We look forward to sharing it with many more like minded, adventurous, nature loving and appreciating guests. Here below a taste of what some of our guests have felt this month:

Lufupa guest comments:
"Wonderful location. Great staff. What a win!" (UK)
"Words inadequate but: peaceful, heart stealing, friendliness, an experience never to be forgotten. Will return for the people and animals" (UK)
"What a magnificent place, incredible wildlife drives, wonderful hospitality and food, fantastic staff." (USA)

The Lufupa Team