Ice queen – the white lioness mother.Īs Pat explained, there are only six white lions occurring naturally in the wild of Africa, and five of them are in Timbavati (apparently there is a white lioness in the south of Kruger, near Pretoriuskop Camp). He probably knows Timbavati better than anyone, and during my time with him, he managed to find us the white lions near the Klaserie River that flows in the west of the reserve. I was guided by Pat Donaldson, a private guide who has worked in the area since 1969, and has spent his whole life in the bush of Southern Africa. What makes Timbavati undoubtedly famous is its white lions. Timbavati is just one of several huge private reserves that now makes up the greater Kruger National Park. I’ve spent the past week at Walker’s River Camp in the Timbavati, a 500 square kilometre private reserve that lies to the west of central Kruger National Park, and because the fences between the two were dropped in 1993, there’s a real sense of wildness here. What a way to end: white lions! I couldn’t have planned a better way to end my epic year of exploring South Africa’s wildest places.
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