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. ...
African Game Lodge
Written by Safari Tartlet, Renate de Villiers. Bossy (the Nokia Navigator GPS) was talking nicely to us giving us directions, because Carrie had forgotten the way to African Game Lodge in the Western Cape Mountains near Montagu. But Bossy was a little out of sorts because we were going into the middle of the mountains...
Garden Route Game Lodge
I was really impressed with Garden Route Game Lodge. It is of course ‘soft safari’, as are all the game reserves in the Western Cape. It is because this populated region doesn’t have tracts of spare land the size of small European countries - like Kruger Park - in which the largest African animals can roam in...
Elephant Riding, Camp Jabulani
Camp Jabulani left me feeling enriched in so many ways and I am now completely in love with elephants. Camp Jabulani is one of the good guys in elephant back riding – according to my safari tart friend Shaz, who did a magazine exposé on the elephant riding safari industry. And I became convinced of...