It was a completely normal game drive, with new guests, the first trip into the bush, and it was an afternoon with a beautiful setting sun. Alasdair, Rhulani’s head ranger, wanted to create a "wow" effect right from the start, so he got out of the vehicle to search for lions on foot across rough terrain, as he had discovered footprints of them on the road. And then something completely unexpected happened.
Alasdair tells us: “My guests were a family from Brazil and a family from South Africa, and they both said to me they wanted to see a leopard.
When I saw the lion tracks and I decided to follow them. I was walking, and walking and walking, and then, all of a sudden, in the distance I see this silhouette in the tree and I was like ‘nooooo ways!”. It was a leopard!
So I walked back to the car, started the engine and somehow I slithered through the bushes. And we arrived there, and it was true. There was a leopard in the middle, of the tree!
I went like mad, like crazy! That is the most awesome thing in the world. It's been ages since I've tracked a leopard on foot, but now to find one by accident, while tracking lions, was just incredible!
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