Two fabulous days of safari ...

 I spent two nights in a lodge in the Sabi Sands area in South Africa. The reserve is only a one hour flight from Johannesburg and shares a boundary with and is open to Kruger National Park. It is famous for its leopard sightings - the whole reserve has over 100 leopards.

This young strong male leopard had entered the lion's territory. Two large male lion brothers were watching him from the distance.  In this moment , when I took the picture, the leopard had seen the lions and we were waiting for something to happen. However, all cats stayed calm, the leopard decided to make a large detour around the area where the lion were sitting and watching. Lion and leopard hate each other because they compete for food.

We had seen the two lion brothers, who each have large prides, at an earlier occasion at a water hole.

Here one in black and white to evoke the era of Karen Blixen.  One of my favourite films is "Out of Africa" with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.

There are other leopards too ...

Many more safari pictures are here and in my flickr album .