You expect the tracking. What you don't expect is the philosophy. Within the first hour Renias has shown you a leopard's drag mark, a honey badger's argument with a porcupine, and — this is the part that stays — how much of the bush you have been walking past your whole life.
Renias Mhlongo is one of only two people in southern Africa to hold the senior master tracker qualification, and a morning on foot with him is not a game-drive supplement. It is the reason the journey exists. He reads the ground the way you read a page, and by the end you are reading a sentence or two yourself.
For our golfers there is a quiet bonus: the same attention he teaches you to pay to a track transfers, oddly and wonderfully, to reading a green that afternoon. More than one guest has come off the course swearing the morning walk fixed their putting.
— Graeme Harker, Sabi Sand