Live Webcams in Madikwe Game Reserve

Madikwe Game Reserve sits on South Africa's border with Botswana, where the bushveld gives way to the Kalahari, and the live webcams in Madikwe show that meeting point at its most honest: the waterholes in front of the lodges, where whatever is thirsty comes down to drink. Elephant and buffalo arrive in herds, giraffe in ones and twos, and on a good day the wild dogs the reserve is known for. Madikwe keeps South African Standard Time, UTC+2, with no daylight saving, so a European morning is already mid-morning in the bush; the heaviest traffic comes in the last two hours of daylight and again after dark under infrared. The reserve covers some 750 square kilometres, all of it fenced and all of it malaria-free, which is unusual for Big Five country. May to September, the dry months, is when the water pulls the most animals in.