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I am a safari tart - in the best possible sense of the word. I travel to African safari lodges for a living and write coffee table travel books and articles for magazines. I know its a hell of a job, but somebody's got to do it!
About this blog
If you are thinking of going on safari in Africa, this blog will help you decide where to go, where to stay and what to avoid. I have visited over 150 safari lodges and this is a live report from Africa with my personal opinion of the good, the bad and the best of African safari.
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Posted in
Mozambique by
Carrie on August 5, 2010
Courtney Ward has been “dancing with dolphins” for ten years in the warm waters of southern Mozambique at Ponta Malongane. People say she is part dolphin and you can believe it when you see her gliding through the water like a mermaid with her mono-fin.
Dolphins crowd around her and out of a pod of over two hundredshe knows about thirty individuals on sight. They may arrive together or in small groups and Courtney and the dolphins give each other the eye (or was that a wink?), acknowledging an understanding that she says is, “a very physical and joyful relationship.” She says they love to play and so does she. Courtney also talks about the real soul connection she has with the dolphins, which she finds funny, since she originates from about as far from the sea in South Africa as you can get; Kimberley. She calls herself the, “dolfyn van die woestyn,” dolphin from the desert. She has such inter-connectedness with the dolphins, that they even visit her in her dreams.
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Posted in
Eastern Cape,
South Africa by
Carrie on January 8, 2010
I have been going on safari in Africa every year for 15 years, yet it was at Samara Private Game Reserve, in the middle of nowhere in the Graaff-Reinet Karoo, that I found two elements of a safari that had so far eluded me; a yoga mat and an aardvark.
A strange duo I agree, but a pairing that makes Samara a special safari venue in the absence of Africa’s really big game….. I regretted that line as soon as I wrote it, because it shows what a spoilt safari tart I have become!
You don’t find anything taller than giraffe, any stronger than rhino, any faster than cheetah, or any meaner than buffalo and Samara has them all, as well as antelopes and of course aardvark (which I will speak more of later).
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Posted in
South Africa,
Western Cape by
Carrie on October 20, 2009
You don’t have to do yoga to go on a Southern Africa Yoga Safari, but it helps.
In a hidden location amongst giant sandstone rocks on the West Coast of South Africa near Eland’s Bay, Southern African Yoga Safaris makes use of a rocky retreat for a getaway with a difference. While doing your ‘Salute to the Sun’ or Tree Posture (seen here), you stare out and may meet the eyes of some of the antelopes or zebra that live in this nature reserve. Or if you are very yogic, you may be looking inwards and finding the peace within.
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