Hi all - been good to read about Marakele. This little park is going to become overrun when people discover how great (and close) it is. In 2014 I was woken one night by the lions roaring as they patrolled quite close to the Tlopi tents (where I also happened to get a leopard outside the tent on a motion camera). In January this year I took a short early morning drive on the Mbidi road. Not far from the turnoff (on the opposite side of the dam), I stumbled across a male and two females........thought I would share
WaTeRbUcK ...wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it...
The lions are only in the Tlopi side of the park (i.e. not on the camping side), after the tunnel.
We had a wonderful lion sighting when we were staying at the Motsweri Cottage - beyond Tlopi Camp. A male lion was just outside our fence, roaring, at 5.30 in the morning! We also saw tracks on the dirt track leading to the cottage.
The pride consisted of 3 females, 1 young male, 2 sub adults and 4 little cubs. There was a lot of interaction and "talking" going on among them. It was amazing to watch.
thank you for sharing, Rosie 
The most amazing sighting!
Such cool photos of an awesome sighting 
