Marabou Storks and Vultures are also considered part of the Ugly Five. Together with the Wildebeest (see yesterday’s blog message https://thandablog.com/2014/04/24/the-ugly-five/ ) they are part of this very special club. Two more coming up… Continue reading
The Big Five are very famous. But there are also the Ugly Five! For guests it is a bit of harmless fun to guess which of the many animal species on Thanda qualify… Continue reading
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
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 (née Coelen) was crowned… Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
