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class="content__text" New day, a lucky one! Etosha National Park is one of the few parks in Africa where you are allowed to drive with your own car. When someone sees something, most of the time there will be another car behind, and another… It does help to have multiple eyes in search for wildlife. It was one of our first days in Namibia. We had been very lucky with all the wildlife we saw. However, we were about to get luckier. We noticed multiple cars on to something. Someone warned us… “It’s a cheetah on the move”. When we saw her she was already running after a springbok. It was difficult to keep up with her running between the grass at high speed. She was gone, disappeared. Minutes later she was a couple of meters from our car with her prey in her mouth. She caught the springbok! But something was off, she wasn’t alone. She started to make sounds calling for others… There they were, 4 cubs patiently waiting for mama to bring their next meal. She was exhausted, so much so that she left her prey on the side and went with her cubs under a tree to catch her breath. It was just enough time to drive past that tree, snap some photos and enjoy their company by distance. Minutes later they were gone, this time as a family in search for a safe place to eat their meal. What an experience! I can’t even describe how lucky I feel and how incredible this was. What a privilege to see this in real time, in the wild. I’ll be sharing some photos of this encounter within the next few days! 😊

November 01, 2022