Positioned in one of the most unspoilt wilderness areas in South Africa?s Eastern Cape Province, Kwandwe Private Game Reserve spans over 54,000 acres of pristine landscape. Add to that the most spectacular accommodation, food and game viewing, and you realize you have discovered pure bliss sighting.

?Mom, look over there?, my daughter instructs me, holding the pair of binoculars close to her face. I?m squinting, trying to look harder but I notice nothing. Our ranger hands me his binoculars and suddenly, I spot them ? one mother, and one, two, three, four, five cheetah cubs! ?Are we able to get closer?" I ask. This is really a once-in-a-lifetime sighting as a cheetah mother with five cubs is not something you see every day.

Our ranger, Brendon Dredge has already loaded tracker Dennis Yoli into the passenger seat and accelerates the Toyota Land Cruiser up the steep embankment. I wonder if we?re going to make it over the uneven, rocky surface and as Brendon stops the vehicle and turns the nose to where he thinks she might be, the most beautiful cheetah elegantly strides towards us, followed closely by her five cubs.
She looks hungry and is sniffing upwind to see if there is any prey in the vicinity. Having to look after five cubs and maintaining enough sustenance to feed them on a regular basis is no mean feat. The cubs are all sporting the adorable mantle that young cubs have to camouflage them from other predators. Mom trying to hunt turns into a game for the cubs an...