Those who know me know that I absolutely love cheetahs. I was very thrilled and excited on a recent game drive to have not one but two sightings of these beautiful creatures. The first was a young male who managed to catch a baby zebra and eat it about 30 meters away from the vehicle. It was quite funny to see this slender athlete nearly roll away after completely stuffing himself with as much meat as his little stomach could take. He would stop eating, uncomfortably sit up and gasp for air, then fall down and lazily eat again. As nice a sighting as this was it wasn’t nearly as special as what happened only an hour later when we were surprized by a mother cheetah and her two cubs walking only 5 meters past the car. The mother was completely focused on an impala standing in the distance, whilst her cubs decided to lie down in the middle of the road, right in front of us. These youngsters were quite intrigued with the car and the strange clicking sounds (cameras going off at full speed!) that came from it. They moved off into the long grass next to the vehicle, but every few seconds one of them would just quickly poke his head out of the grass and look at us in a strange way and then move off again, this was going on for quite some time until a shrill call from the mother signalled them to move off again. Fortunately in this occasion curiosity did not kill the cat.