Dates Visited: July 2016
Location: Linyanti
Comments: This was well recommended by one of out safaris friends and the visit was truly spectacular. The tents (12 in total) were not that luxurious but they were roomy and had a nice bath room with soaker tub and ample space for our 2 large suitcases.
The food was plentiful but the main reason to visit Lebala is for the game drives!
We encountered hundreds of elephants literally every day and the area had numerous amounts of wildlife from hyenas to lions to impalas and zebras but our main enjoyment was the visit to the wild dogs' den. At this time, the alpha female had just given birth to a litter of 15 pups and the pack of 13 had to go out and make a kill every day to feed the pups. So on cue at around 5pm every night, the pack would go out hunting and we were there to follow them. On the first night, the pack was unsuccessful as they were seen to quickly by a herd of zebra but the second night, the pack chased down an impala and basically shredded the poor animal within a minute. It was gruesome to witness such a feeding frenzy but the reward for us was to know the pups would be fed that evening!
At night, we were visited by elephants and as they tried to fit themselves thru the openings between the tents, they smacked into our tent repeatedly causing an earthquake type shaking of the walls which made for us to panic. No harm but it was quite exciting (nerve wracking?).
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