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At Baobab Ridge we understand that our people are our greatest assets, and deserving of investment, providing them with ongoing training and skills development. We also encourage them to dream big - identifying talent and helping each staff member to reach their full potential and have a happy, satisfying career with us. So, when openings recently became available, we looked within our existing complement of staff to fill the positions...

Maggy Mapayile is a self-confessed food fanatic and is over the moon at being Baobab Ridge's Head Chef. It's a role she feels she was born to fill and one that started in the mother of two's childhood. Born and raised in nearby Buffelshoek, Maggy went into the restaurant trade straight from school, working in a local eatery in Hoedspruit where she started out as a scullery worker.

When you stay at Baobab Ridge you're always impressed by the warmth of its wonderful team of people who take care of guests as though they were family. Indeed, it's this family feel that captured the heart of Lodge Anchor Adelaide Mbowane when she arrived in 2017 to fill in for her aunt who had fallen ill. Working at a safari lodge was not exactly what Adelaide had planned for her career, but she's exceptionally glad fate stepped in the way it did.

It's hard to miss Baobab Ridge's Lodge Administrator, Minkhenso Priviledge Mkasi because of her dazzling smile and sunny personality as she greets guests at Baobab Ridge. She seems perfectly at home and in her element, so it's strange to learn that tourism was not the first career choice for this bubbly and uber-efficient rising star!

Here in the Klaserie we're celebrating being part of a two-decade-long effort that's brought the southern ground hornbill back from the brink of extinction through dedicated research and the introduction of artificial nesting boxes, one of which is sponsored by Baobab Ridge and has seen it's first successful nesting and hatching this season...

We do "love" rather well here at Baobab Ridge, and at this time of year, when an abundance of hearts and plethora of red roses are just around the corner, along with that annual celebration of everything romantic on Valentine's Day, we play host to lots of couples out to make the most of "we" time. But there's more to falling in love with love at Baobab Ridge than meets the eye...

They're on top of the menu for most of the predators on the Klaserie, but there's more to these amazing antelope species than just providing dinner for hungry hunters. Let's have a look at the common antelope species you're most likely to see on safari at Baobab Ridge...

It's probably the ugliest bird you're going to see in Africa, but the marabou stork performs a critically important role wherever it makes its home, cleaning up the wilderness of rotting carcasses and potential biological hazards and acting as nature's undertaker! Let's find out more about this odd-looking wonder that we often see at Baobab Ridge...