Safari holiday booked, and the dreaming of looking like Meryl Streep in Out of Africa has come to an abrupt stop. You've just noticed that many fly-in safaris come with the requirement to compress your entire wardrobe into a tiny bag weighing no more than 15kgs! Now there’s a knotty ... Read more
The wildebeest, seemingly assembled from the wreckage of all the other plains species, is one of Africa’s most charismatic creatures. Despite the appearance of an evolutionary calamity, it is also one of the most successful. When herds around two million strong gather together to migrate between the southern parts of ... Read more
Best of both worlds - supporting a charity as well as getting something lovely to share with family and friends at Christmas! Save The Rhino Save The Rhino does some great work in both Africa and Asia. In Africa they have projects in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South ... Read more
Mention Africa and many people will bring to mind one or two extraordinary wildlife photos. We're fortunate to see hundreds of these stunning images, but how on earth to choose what makes one image better than another? It could be the light, the setting, an expression, the pose, or a ... Read more
Royal Livingstone Hotel - one night bed and breakfast On arrival into Livingstone you will be met and driven to the Royal Livingstone Hotel which is on the edge of the Zambezi River, just a ten minute walk from the Victoria Falls in Zambia. It is a five-star luxury hotel ... Read more
Drumbeat Autumn 2015 Inside this issue of Drumbeat Autumn 2015: Francis looks at what’s on offer in Tanzania which he describes as one of Africa’s most complete safari destinations. Lucinda tracks Zimbabwe’s return to the fold. In the start of a series of interviews with our sales team we talk to ... Read more
Four nights at this wonderful camp will allow you time immerse yourself in all on offer here. You can visit Iain Douglas-Hamilton’s Save the Elephants research centre, enjoy elephant watching and game drives, bush picnics and sundowners, manyatta (homestead) and school visits. If you’re feeling energetic you can hike up ... Read more
**Please note this rhino raffle has now been drawn** Congratulations to Guy Spurway who wins the five night luxury safari for two people in Botswana worth over £8,000. Thank you for everyone who has donated to Save the Rhino and the Rhino Translocation project. We have raised over £5,644.84 and ... Read more
Endangered Rhino At the beginning of the 20th century there were 500,000 rhinos across Africa and Asia. This fell to 70,000 by 1970, and further to just 29,000 in the wild today. Large-scale poaching of the now critically endangered rhino resulted in a dramatic decline from 65,000 black rhino individuals ... Read more
Taking my family on a Kenya safari This report popped into the Aardvark inbox recently and sums up so evocatively what a Kenya family safari is all about. We’ve reproduced a snippet in the current issue of our Drumbeat newsletter but here’s Ben Forbes’ full write up of his family's ... Read more