July 9-11 Duba Plains Safari Camp

Pride of 6 lions attacking a buffalo

She rolls onto the pair on the left as the two on the right come on, some bulls came and chased the lions away and the buffalo ran off for another day

Wow, I don’t think there are words created yet that can describe the experience we have had at this camp. The people and facilities are wonderful, everyone wants to make sure you are taken care of and that your experience is what you expected. We spent a total of 22 hours out in the Delta tracking and watching the animals and scenery.

We have been very fortunate in several ways. First; our guide for the 3 days was James Pisetu who is a recognized guide for National Geographic and is often booked months in advance. I can’t even begin to describe all the animals we saw. I am only showing the lions here the rest will be found on our web site later. At Duba we saw Antelope, Kudu, Red Lechwe, Tsessbe, Buffalo, Elephants, Hippopotamus, Warthogs, African Wild Cat, Side Stripped Jackal, Civet, Lions, Baboons, African Rock Python, Crocodiles and I’m sure some I forgot and I didn’t mention all the birds.

But, the ABSOULT highlight of Duba was following a pride of lions and buffalo over two days and finally seeing the pride take down a buffalo. The strategizing that went on before the lions attacked was amazing. The buffalo bulls are big and strong animals and can often kill the lions. So it’s not easy for the lions to take down a buffalo, they have to employ many tactics to cut off the heard and separate a calf or a small female from the heard and take them down and hold off the bulls. This event is something that the guests only see once or twice a month because the area is large and you have to track them for many miles before seeing anything happen and quite frequently it happens at night.

Each camp in the Delta is very different. This camp is the only camp where they drive in such deep water; I was amazed at how the Land Rovers could handle the terrain. Most of the other areas South of here are dryer and the vegetation is different. I was also amazed at how Linda held up to the bouncing around we had, one night we broke down just at sunset, it took several hours before the rescue vehicle showed up to take us back. The stars are so bright down here, the Milky Way is clearly visible, something I don’t think we see at home.