Okonjima and Africat

Okonjima is a large privately owned (by the Hansen family for three generations) game park. As well as many other animal, the park has approximately 30 leopards roaming freely, with twelve collared to enable tracking for both research and tourism. Thus there is a chance of the ranger finding them, but it still involves some skill and luck.

In addition they have a separate small reserve for rescued cheetahs as part of the Africat Foundation. This charity was set up to protect big cats by educating farmers and school children whilst rescuing orphaned cubs, injured cats and removing cats from farmland where they are endangered from being shot.

We learned , leopards cannot change their spots as they have rosettes, not spots; cheetahs have spots.

Our lodge room had its own lookout from which we were able to see a number of animals roaming and enjoying the waterhole.

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