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class="content__text" Namibia in a few seconds 🇳🇦♥️

February 01, 2023

class="content__text" 2022 was the year I finally made it to Namibia, one of my bucket list destinations for a long time. Visiting places like this & being up close and personal with wildlife are definitely among the things that I enjoy the most in life. Excited to check off another bucket list destination this year. Wishing whoever is reading this a Happy New Year! May 2023 be a good and healthy year to us all ✨🥂

February 01, 2023

class="content__text" Paying a visit to the largest seal colony in the world! Approximately 200.000 wild seals live here 🦭

December 01, 2022

class="content__text" Being meters away from this magnificent animal, in its natural habitat, is possibly the most memorable day of my visit to Namibia. What a day, what a day 😍🐆 On another note… Habitat loss, poaching, and conflict with humans have greatly reduced their populations. In the 1900, the world’s cheetah population was thought to be 100,000, in 1960 40,000. There are now less than 7,000 cheetahs left in the wild, says the @wwf 😞

December 01, 2022

class="content__text" Wild & Free 🐘

December 01, 2022

class="content__text" We had been on safari for about 3 hrs. The plan was to make our way to a sunset spot but then our guide receives a radio message from another guide. “We’ve found the lions” We were looking for them the whole time. Plans changed immediately and the sunset spot suddenly changed to “wherever the lions are” When we got there, it was a large group of about 20 lions. They were extremely relaxed as you can see on the second photo. They allowed us to stay very close enjoying their company. As the sun began to set, they stood up and started to move, one by one walking past us, staring at us. The young lion on the last photo even stopped for a photo. A sunset to remember 🦁

December 01, 2022

class="content__text" Aim High, Stand Tall, Get Spotted 🦒

November 01, 2022

class="content__text" Early morning views ☀️

November 01, 2022

class="content__text" Face to face with Spotted Hyenas 😬 Hyenas are more than purely scavengers. They are strong, smart, resilient and great hunters whether alone or in their clan groups. Swipe left to see where this Hyena is headed >>>

November 01, 2022

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

class="content__text" Like father, like mother, like son 🦌

November 01, 2022

class="content__text" Playful black-backed jackals 😊 The black-backed jackal typically lives in pairs or in small family groups consisting of a mated pair and their offspring. Each family group tends to have a strict dominance hierarchy, with the breeding pair at the top. Mated pairs from strong bonds stay together for life.

November 01, 2022