A wide variety of guides cater for visitors with particular interests or needs. Some guides will stay with guests for their entire trip and help with everything from completing park entry documentation or border crossing formalities to offering information on the customs of local people, history...
Self-driving trips provide great flexibility and are generally cheaper than organized tours. Long self-drive trips in Southern and East Africa require careful planning but also an understanding that roads and driving habits are not always the same as in other parts of the world. A...
There are a variety of sea kayaking safaris that can be undertaken in the warm tropical waters of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar. In some instances kayakers travel along the coast overnighting at lodges or B & B type accommodation but others are boat-based with tourists...
The “sardine run” is a mass “migration” of vast shoals of these small fish that annually move along South Africa’s east coast, usually between Port St Johns and Durban. As the sardines, each averaging about 20 – 25 centimetres in length, move along the coast...
The paintings, many of them made with vegetable dyes, animal blood or carbon from fires, provide a fascinating insight into the lives of the hunter-gatherer Bushmen who left these records of their lifestyles and religious beliefs of hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of years...
Driving though southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania with Kilimanjaro soaring in the distance is an exhilarating experience, with the mountain forming an impressive backdrop to elephants and other wildlife. East and southern Africa have an endless variety of panoramic routes. Driving through the vast openness of...
Seeing snow capped peaks might surprise some visitors to Africa but in South Africa and east Africa it does indeed snow on the high peaks. In Tanzania Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain soars to over 5895 metres (19 450 feet) and has a permanent cap of...
Large game animals are usually quite relaxed around boats and allow them to approach closely. The motor boats allow guest to travel relatively long distances on the water and are usually equipped with cooler-boxes containing snacks and drinks....
Mokoro is a dug out canoe traditionally made from a single tree trunk. The canoes are propelled through the relatively shallow channels that cut through the dense reed beds of the Delta by skilled guides who use a long pole to gently and silently thrust the...
These vast salt pans were once the floor of a giant inland lake and now form part of the Kalahari, a semi desert area that is nevertheless rich in wildlife. The table-flat 10 000 sq kilometre pans, they are more than twice the size of greater...
