Tag Archive: Africa

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter from all of us at Thanda! The picture shows Thanda’s “Easter Bunny”, a young Scrub Hare 🙂 Picture by Christian Sperka – Specialist Photography Guide and Resident Wildlife Photographer – Thanda… Continue reading

Two Former Miss Worlds Enjoy the Beauty of Thanda

Thanda has just played host to two fabulous ladies who were both previous Miss World title holders of commendable significance. At the time living in Durban, Penelope Anne Ray (nĂ©e Coelen) was crowned… Continue reading

Posing!

This Water Monitor Lizard was enjoying the sun at Thanda’s largest waterhole. These intelligent reptiles are very shy and usually disappear quickly into water or high grass as soon as one approaches. To… Continue reading

New Arrivals!

What a morning. Leaving the lodge for a drive a bit later than usual we were first looking for our dominant male Lion. He had been sighted not far away from the Thanda… Continue reading

An Elderly Lady!

This elderly Giraffe lady had a good look at this “noisy animal” before she decided to move off into the bush following the rest of her Journey (Journey is the proper term for… Continue reading

“Lions hands-on” guest experience

Well, we finally captured our two young male Lions. After a few weeks hard work for all of us, Mike Toft, our veterinarian for this project, was able to dart both of them.… Continue reading

The Last Bush Disco!

In the past month we played our special “music” to the Thanda Lions on numerous evenings. (Also see our blog message about two young male Lions which are to be transferred to another game… Continue reading

New Hospitality General Manager

Thanda has recently welcomed Magdel Geldenhuys to their growing family to take up the newly created position of Hospitality General Manager. Joining from Royal Malewane she is passionate about service excellence and exceeding… Continue reading

Rhino Fund – Girls on a Mission!

Thanda Private Game Reserve would like to say a huge thank you to four inspiring young girls who today handed over a cheque for R25,000 to the Thanda/KZN Project Rhino fund. The 4… Continue reading

A Zebra Quarrel

These two Burchell’s Zebras had a bit of a quarrel. The Thanda guests on my vehicle were surprised about the force and stamina these two females displayed during their fighting. A very special… Continue reading