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photo by Mary Kirkby, while staying at Mdonya Old River in Ruaha in 2012

Safari News :

Leopard on car in Ruaha - photo by Bobby Jewell

Watch an amazing video of a leopard climbing onto one of our vehicles on a game drive from Mdonya Old River camp in Ruaha

For the story go to this newspage

Lake Manze News Jan 2013:

Red-billed firefinch, Lake Manze Selous

Now is a time of plenty here in the Selous. The “short rains”, which started reasonably late in November this year, were still falling in late January
Over the three months, they produced a good 283mm in total in the Manze area.

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Mdonya Old River News Jan 2013:

What better way to ring in 2013 with our wonderful guests under the Tanzanian sky, lions roaring in the background before the heavens opened up
with a gigantic down pour cleansing the air for a fresh start to the New Year. Special thanks to our local Hehe tribal dancers
for putting on a spectacular show of traditional singing and dancing.

As we celebrated 2013 so did the park, Mdonya falls commenced flowing and new life is constantly springing into action.

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Kwihala Safari Newsletter: December / January 2012 / 2013  by Steven Roskelly

A return to the Ruaha is always special for me no matter what the season! There are always amazing spectacles to behold and experience, from the tiniest of creatures to the greatest leviathans walking the wilderness here. Once again, Ruaha never fails to disappoint the diligent observer of nature or a relaxed mind allowing colour, sound and scent to envelop and infuse the senses!

Arriving to take over the reigns from Marc on December 1st, I was struck by a landscape attempting to extricate itself from the hot and parched grip of the dry season, a little rainfall having been felt only a short while before, as the wheels of the Cessna Caravan hit the deck at Msembe, Park HQ. The Great Ruaha River was still “dry,” with only some isolated hippo pools and water flowing beneath the seemingly desolate expanse of its long, sandy bed. Shoots of green were only just appearing at the soil-atmosphere interface, blasted pitifully by the hot rays of the sun overhead and unshaded by what few green leaves were appearing on the trees. A new chapter of renewal and reproduction was emerging then, and as I write this now Ruaha is a fully fledged emerald savanna of almost blindingly bright colour, verdant open plains, thickly wooded riverine habitats and rocky fortresses that play habitat & host to her many and varied wild inhabitants struggling for survival every hour of every day. The green season has always been said to be “quiet” and fraught with “difficulty to spot game,” and although this is partly and only slightly true, such opinions extolled with so much zeal are, I humbly opine, greatly over-exaggerated!

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Safari Diary by Alan Montgomery, who visited all 5 of our properties in Nov-Dec 2012

Link to Danish translation for our Scandinavian readers.

Sunday 25 November - Impala Camp, Selous Game Reserve

We arrived this morning from rainy England.
After a short plane ride with Coastal Aviation, we land at Mtemere Airstrip in the Selous Game Reserve, where we are met by a guide and driver and taken to Selous Impala Camp. There we are welcomed by the Italian Managers, Barbara and Andrea.

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Lorenzo's Leopard

November 2012 Story and photos by Lorenzo Rossi, trainee guide at Kwihala camp Ruaha National Park November 2012

We were parked near a rocky outcrop on the north bank of the Mwagusi sand river. It had rained,
and there was a small stream of water – buffalo were drinking and a big troupe of baboons and banded mongooses
were foraging in the river bed.
Suddenly a leopard sprang out from the outcrop and jumped on a banded mangoose and killed it.

Fearlessly, the baboons swooped down on the leopard in its exposed position in the river bed.
The largest males came very close to the feline, attacking it from all sides.
The leopard crouched down and snarled ferociously but could not win the battle against so many.

It was too much, the spotted cat abandoned the kill and raced for the rocky outcrop, where it disappeared into a crevice.
The baboons were making a great racket and continued for some time, victorious in the battle….

We saw the leopard later, sitting on top of a rock surveying the scene carefully.

Steve Brynes runs a Safari blog, and has written some great articles about his stays at Kwihala and at Selous Impala :

The Safari Advisor

Kwintessential Kwihala: A Gem in Rugged Ruaha  - by Steve Brynes

 

“Go West,” American journalist Horace Greeley famously advised young men looking for personal success in mid-nineteenth century America
Lounging at the airport in Arusha, I mused that the same advice appeared to be in play for the majority of visitors to Tanzania as they waited
to fly west to such iconic places as Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti in pursuit of safari success.
I’m not a young man, but my faculties are still reasonably intact, so I instead headed south to Ruaha,
a park known for its large elephant and buffalo herds, as well as its lion prides that can include twenty-plus members.
This course was set after much research, including extensive reading and speaking with those in the know, all of which presaged
a world-class safari without that major distraction of the northern venues…..people. And in much the same way, I decided on Kwihala,
a camp located near the Mwagusi River, an area renowned for its outstanding game viewing, as my base for a 7-day stay in October 2012.

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Steve Brynes' article on Selous Impala Camp

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