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Eco Safari Lodges in Africa

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         ...
Sibuya Game Lodge, nr Port Elizabeth

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...
Samara Private Game Reserve

Samara Private Game Reserve

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 the possibility of two elements of a safari that had so far eluded me; a yoga mat and an aardvark.      ...
Veterinary Safari -  Immobilizing Lions

Veterinary Safari – Immobilizing Lions

    Brothers Safaris offers African safaris with a difference. Dr Peter Brothers is an African wildlife Vet and Registered Tourist Guide, who allows you the rare opportunity to enter his world.   His next safari immobilizes lions to monitor and treat them in the Amakhala Game Reserve, near Port Elizabeth. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime hands-on experience...
Oyster Bay Lodge

Oyster Bay Lodge

As I galloped along the water’s edge of Oyster Bay Lodge’s own 3.5km beach, I couldn’t help letting out a “yeehaa”.