Tangled World

No zoo in the Masai Mara

Many of travel industry colleagues in Kenya fought since late 2008 to stop a ‘cheetah zoo’ being built inside (of all places!) the Masai Mara. Building started quite a while ago, and even whilst conservationists and others fought to

An insight into guide training in Malawi

Malawi at the forefront of guide training        Wikus Swanepoel of Wilderness Safaris in Malawi explains about recent guide training Our guide training course for Malawi for 2009

The case of the curious noise

In Africa you get used to the usual daily noises and the unusual cannot be missed. It has to be said that the rainy season brings new harmonies:

A tall order for a lioness!

This is an amazing wildlife travel snippet we’ve been sent from Saruni Samburu Camp in Kenya. Two clients from the Netherlands had an incredible sighting in Samburu National Reserve. These

Highest flood levels since 1923 expected in Okavango

The flood waters which drain into Botswana’s Okavango Delta from Angola are on their way. And it’s going to be an incredible year.  Forecasters are expecting this flood to be the highest since 1923 when records started!  There might even

A community camp in a World Heritage Site

   Kosi Bay in South Africa is at the very top of KwaZulu Natal’s east coast (Maputaland), just below the Mozambique border. It is