One of the guards was finishing the late shift, when he saw lions hunting warthogs up against the fence"

"I half dropped to the floor, to avoid the bat flying in to me, and I went to the lounge to get Toni"

"We have an abundance of wildlife here, all creatures great and small... and we have many stories to tell, to go along with it"

This time the cheetahs were walking down towards the river, and were in perfect sight.

"As I sat there in silence, watching and waiting, and then I saw them, three beautiful cheetahs."

"To his surprise he saw some tawny coloured shapes, and orange eyes staring back at him, from the lawn."

"They parked between the car and the lioness. Two rangers then got out the car with a few tools to change the tyre"

When I looked up, there they were, “my” 4 young males and a lioness just below them.

"As we arrived on the main deck of Hamiltons, an enormous male lion came walking through the riverbed in front of us"

"I could hear something in the roof. Scratch, scratch, scratch.I lay there, thinking about what it could be, frozen in fear."

"Possibly one of the most thrilling moments of my life, watching lions have their dinner merely 20 meters from us, while we were on foot"

"I have spent much time in the African bush, but never have I sat down to dinner and had a leopard join me for an evening tipple."

"As Murphy’s law would have it, we came around the corner to a traffic jam. The cause? An absolutely massive elephant having his dinner"

"As she shone her torch, a massive buffalo bull emerged from the water on the swimming pool step, and shook himself off"

"The sun was beginning to rise above the Letaba River, it was a crisp morning and I could hear lions roaring, and hyenas howling"

Bella was barking loudly, and then I saw them; about 10 lions all in the reeds below us, staring at Bella and I, with their piercing eyes

This iconic man of South Africa who had seen so much of life, had done so much for our beautiful South Africa, wanted to meet little old me.

There is something exhilarating about watching the African night, while the crackling fire burns, knowing you are in the presence of a giant

"Before the elephants even reached them, the poor lions got up and dashed in to the reeds"

If you haven’t experienced Botswana, you should definitely add it to your bucket list. It is incredible.