A cool video has emerged of a lioness lying on a branch right behind a safari guide in Kruger National Park in South Africa.

The footage, shot on June 17, shows the guides anxiously smiling for the camera as the lioness sits dangerously close to them.

"As we were watching the two males on the kill on our left, the lioness decided to climb up a dead tree next to land cruiser," the filmer wrote online.

"We never saw or heard anything at all, not one single sound, yet there she was a few feet away."

"After this experience, our ranger told me that this was closest he had ever been to a lion in his entire life," they added.