Elephant Plains Game Lodge

Monday, 13 July 2026 (24°C) Tiyani, the female leopard, stationary northwest of Gaby’s Crossing. Xidulu, the female leopard, mobile south on MMM with two cubs. A breeding herd of approximately 20 elephants feeding along EP Driveway, north of 5 Way Junction. Two...

  Monday, 6 July 2026 (25°C) Tortoise Pan, the male leopard scavenged an impala kill from Langa, the female leopard and her cub with Xidulu, the female leopard sitting at the base of the tree South of Arathusa Safari Driveway. Mahlowasi, the female leopard East...

  Monday, 29 June 2026 (26°C) Xidulu, the female leopard mobile south on MMM from One Eye Pan. The two Imabli lioness, resting at Kobus Dam. A breeding herd of forty buffalo, on Simbambili firebreak at the quarry. A breeding herd of twelve elephants drinking at...

Monday, 22 June 2026 (26°C) Two pangolins on Grass cut Road. Makhomsava, the female leopard stationary on Arathusa Main Road East of Big Dam. Tuesday, 23 June 2026 (30°C) A breeding herd of fifteen African elephants drinking at Leeukuil Pan. Wednesday, 24 June 2026...

Monday, 15th June 2026 (29°C) The Nkuhuma pride consisting of seven lioness and ten cubs, resting north of Gowrie Main in the Mluwati River. One buffalo bull, mobile west from Ntoma crossing. The two cubs of Xidulu, the female leopard hunting dwarf mongoose at...

Weekly Big Five Sightings 8th June – 14th June 2026   Monday, 8th June 2026 (27°C) Maribye, the male leopard, in a marula tree, with an impala kill, East of Kobus Se Dam, with one Ndzenga male lion and two Imbali lioness underneath the tree. Tortoise Pan, the...

Monday, 1 June 2026 (27°C) Tiyani, the female leopard mobile West from Tamboti Crossing. One African wild dog mobile West from Sherley’s Crossing. A breeding herd of eight African elephants feeding along First Windmill Road. Tuesday, 2 June 2026 (29°C) Two sub adult...

Monday, 25 May 2026 (27°C) Xidulu, the female leopard and her two cubs mobile West on Horseshoe East. A breeding herd of fifteen African elephants drinking at Bush camp Pan. Tuesday, 26 May 2026 (27°C) Xidulu, the female leopard and her two cubs mobile East of...

Monday, 18 May 2026 (27°C) Tortoise Pan, the male leopard, mobile south on Sawmill The Kambula breakaway pride consisting of two lionesses and six subadults, stationary south of Marula Bult South/Arathusa Cutline. A pack of two African Wild Dogs, mobile north from...

Monday, 11 May 2026 (31°C) Two Ndzhenga male lions stationary with the Kambula breakaway pride, consisting of two females and six subadults, stationary at the northern end of Arathusa airstrip. Xidulu, the female leopard, with her two cubs on an impala kill, west of...

Weekly Big Five Sightings 04 May – 10 May 2026   Monday, 04 May 2026 (26°C) The Nkuhuma pride, consisting of five lionesses and two cubs, feeding on a buffalo kill east of Baobab Dam. Xidulu, the female leopard, mobile west on Simbambili/Elephant Plains cutline....

  Monday, 27 April 2026 (26°C) A breeding herd of ten elephants, mobile North from Rampan. The two Plains Camp Males lions feeding on a buffalo east of Wet Patch open. Two Nkuhuma lioness and ten cubs, resting around One Eye Pan. A breeding herd of seventy...

Monday, 20 April 2026 (26°C) Tiyani, the female leopard, feeding on an impala kill on Rampan link road. Tortoise Pan, the male leopard, mobile east from Kimbeon’s crossing. A breeding herd of approximately twenty-five elephants feeding around Leeukuil. Two cubs of...

  Monday, 13 April 2026 (31°C) Xidulu, the female leopard, with her two cubs on a kudu calf kill on Simbambili/Arathusa Safari Cutline, west of Xigodi Pan. Two buffalo bulls feeding east of Pungwe Pan. A breeding herd of approximately 20 elephants drinking at...

Monday, 6 April 2026 (33°C) Xidulu, the female leopard, stationary in a tree with her two cubs west of 2nd Windmill Road’s mud wallows. A breeding herd of elephants feeding along Big Dam link north. One elephant bull feeding in a thicket at the southern end of...

Monday, 30 March 2026 (31°C) The Toulon pack of African Wild Dogs (15) stationary on the northern end of Arathusa Airstrip. The Ntsevu Pride of lions, consisting of six members, mobile south east from Arathusa Main Road/Leopard drift. Approximately 10 members of The...

Monday, 23 March 2026 (34°C) Some members of the EP Hyena clan on an impala kill on Tamboti Thicket/Guarri Central. Five members of the Nkuhuma Pride of lions, with six cubs and one Ndzhenga male feeding on a waterbuck kill, north of Tambotie Dam. Tortoise Pan, the...

Monday, 16th March 2026 (29°C) Tortoise Pan, the male leopard, mating with Tlalamba, the female leopard, in the block between Central and Cutline. Makhomsava, the female leopard, mobile South from the Rocks. Xidulu, the female leopard and her two cubs, mobile West on...

  Monday, 9th March 2026 (27°C) One Ndzenga male lion with four Nkuhuma lioness and six cubs, resting at Twin Dams. A breeding herd of ten elephants, feeding on Arathusa airstrip. Tiyanis, female leopard cub resting in a Marula tree on Eastern Bank Manyeleti....

Monday, 2nd March 2026 (34°C) Xidulu, the female leopard and her two cubs, mobile from Saffron towards 2nd Windmill Pan. Tiyani, the female leopard and her cub, mobile East on Ep/Shirley’s Cutline Towards Madash. Five Nkuhuma Females and six cubs, resting in the...

  Monday, 23th February 2026 (32°C) Langa, the female leopard mating with Tortoise Pan, the male leopard mobile north from A-main junction with Nkombe junction. Three elephant bulls, feeding at Marula Bolt Four Way North. Two of the Kambula male lions, mobile...