Malawi 2013 Safari Awards runner up “Best Africa Tourist Board”
I think it’s time to re-visit Malawi! I’ve written about the dream destination Mumbo Island in the middle of Lake Malawi, but haven’t been anywhere else in Malawi. This feels like a good year to go. Why? Because Malawi has just been crowned runner-up in The 2013 Safari Awards’ “Best Africa Tourist Board” category –...
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...
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...
Dancing With Dolphins in Mozambique
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...
Mosiac Farm
I do like a generous size bath and the big oval bath in the lagoon-side safari suite at Mosiac Farm, could fit little ole me and my 6ft man. The only problem was that that neither I nor Man, could reach both the spout and the taps at the same time. We had to run...
Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe
“Can you come to Lake Kariba on Thursday for a week?”, said a friendly voice. “I know it’s Monday today but I have space for one more person on my houseboat going down the length of Lake Kariba.” My initial reaction was that I couldn’t get organised in three days, then the yearning for adventure...
Hippo Lodge, Kafue National Park, Zambia – The Cherry on the Safari Cake
Just when I thought life on safari couldn’t get any better, it did. It was my birthday and I was sitting in a bubbling hot spring on the edge of the Kafue River in Zambia. Fireflies were dancing around my head and a fellow journalist on this press trip – a rather tall, handsome fella...