Africat: Cheetah and Leopard Conservation in Namibia

Okonjima Guest Farm/Bush Camp, which is run by the Africat charity (www.africat.org) who help rescue leopards and cheetahs. The accommodation is in the form of traditional huts, like many other high-end safari lodges in southern Africa with luxurious beds and bathrooms inside, but here the half-mile walk through long grass to the lodge with a torch is even more traumatic. Leopards wander around the grounds freely, although rarely eating the guests. The usual format of game drives and communal dinners with sun downers while game viewing is used here, but with a different selection of wildlife. The hides for watching the leopards made viewing and photography from close-up exceptional. Radio collars on some of the leopards made it possible to locate these otherwise extremely shy animals.