by wickus159@gmail.com | Jul 31, 2025 | Avula Experience
3 Animals You Don’t Expect to Steal the Show | Avula Safaris Everyone dreams of seeing the Big Five. The lion’s roar, the elephant’s presence, the leopard’s stealth—they’re the poster animals of the African bush. But every once in a while, a safari surprises you. Not...
by wickus159@gmail.com | Jul 31, 2025 | Avula Experience
The Night a Lion Roared Outside My Tent | Avula Safaris It was my second night in the Eastern Cape bushveld, and the air was thick with silence. That heavy, expectant kind of stillness that presses against your eardrums and makes you acutely aware of your own...
by wickus159@gmail.com | Jul 27, 2025 | Avula Experience, Hunts
Tracking Kudu in the Eastern Cape | Avula Safaris The Eastern Cape is a land of contrast—rolling hills meet rocky outcrops, thick valley bushveld gives way to open plains, and somewhere in that varied terrain, the ghost of the bush moves. The kudu. Known as the “grey...
by wickus159@gmail.com | Jul 27, 2025 | Avula Experience
Rainstorms and Rhinos: A Trip to Remember | Avula Safaris The rain came quickly. One moment the sky was its usual pale blue, scattered with lazy clouds, and the next—a wall of grey swept across the horizon, pushed forward by a low grumble of thunder. We were deep in...
by wickus159@gmail.com | Jul 27, 2025 | Avula Experience, Experience
Chasing the Sunrise in the Bushveld | Avula Safaris The alarm buzzed long before first light. Camp was still, cloaked in darkness and dew. Somewhere in the distance, a lion’s low rumble echoed across the savanna. I swung my legs from beneath the warm covers, pulled on...
