Green Season in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley
“There is no game in the green season…….!” This is a phrase used about Zambia’s Luangwa Game Reserves in the green season, but “It’s simply is not true!” says Christina Carr of Norman Carr Safaris. The Green Season covers the months from January to March, when the summer rains turn everything green, the bush it at...
On Safari in Congo
Seasoned travellers will be interested in the Odzala Wilderness Camps in the Odzala-Kokoua National Park of the remote north of the Republic of Congo’s river basin – the world’s second largest expanse of tropical rainforest. Wilderness Safaris run lodges in several south and east African countries and have an ethos that should satisfy the most discerning eco-traveller. In...
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Eco Safari Lodges in Africa
What qualifies a safari establishment to call itself eco-friendly? Can it just be one thing or should it be an ethos that runs to all aspects of the facility, including: recycling of waste conservation touching the earth lightly using local build materials sourcing local food enviro-friendly sewerage treatment ...
Governor’s Camp host BBC Film Crew
BBC’s Planet Earth Live film crew have set up at Governors Camp in the Masai Mara – one of the first and most loved safari lodges I visited in the mid 1990s. The BBC’s latest wildlife documentary Planet Earth Live will be broadcast live during the month of May 2012 and the team staying at...
Yoga Detox in Tulbagh
A few springbok and zebra don’t make a safari, but add yoga, vegetarian detoxing conscience cuisine and an eclectic bunch of women warriors from all over the globe and set this in an amphitheatre of mountains in the Tulbagh valley about 2-hours drive from Cape Town and you’ve got a yoga safari for the soul. I...
Kaingo Camp, South Luangwa, Zambia
I have been invited to Shenton Safaris camps in the wild South Luangwa Valley of Zambia and these pics make me want to pack my bag right now! This is real wild Africa, much more earthy and spontaneous than a safari in South Africa with lots of animal thrills to be expected from the numerous...
Mumbo Island ranked in Top 100 Hotels in World – read what I think…
Is Mumbo Island one of my Top 100 places to go in the world…..YES absolutely! People often ask me where is the best place I have been and when reeling off my personal favourites Mumbo Island is definitely in the Top Ten. Chosen...
Safari pics that make you want to be there!
When I look at these photographs, I want to be there right now – don’t you? See link on each photo to find out where it is.
Khaya Ndlovu Manor House, nr Kruger/Hoedspruit
Some photos make you want to be in the picture at this very moment and this is one of them. Read what writer Fiona Zerbst has to say about Khaya Ndlovu, a private lodge near Kruger……… Four-star Khaya Ndlovu Manor House, reclining in the bushveld close to Hoedspruit, just happens to be the family...
Sibuya Game Lodge, nr Port Elizabeth
This privately owned reserve up the Kariega River from Kenton-on-Sea in the Eastern Cape is the Garden of Eden. It has all the components of nature that make you want to weep at its beauty, marvel at the perfect animal specimens all fat and glossy coats, and sink into the sophoric rhythm of the river, in/on which...
Abu Camp, Okavango – new baby elephant
IT’S A GIRL! Abu Camp, best known as one of the first elephant back riding safari lodges, deep in the Okavango Delta, has had a new arrival. Shireni, one of the Camp’s leading matriach’s, gave birth to her third living calf at ten in the evening on 17 December 2011. Measuring approximately 90cm at the shoulder and weighing...
Ocean Safari on MSC Sinfonia; Durban to Mozambique
Cruising the South Africa coast is the fastest growing holiday excursion for South African residents and I was invited aboard the MSC Sinfonia for the 4-night return trip from Durban to Bazaruto Island off the coast of Mozambique. There was a whole media contingent and we all got to bring our partners and were accommodated...