Africa’s Most deadly Creatures

Africa forges creatures with incredible power. Most of Africa’s population live South of the sahara desert.
One creature reigns supreme. it is the snake. With over 400 species on this continent and 90 venomous.

King Cobra
At 1.5 meters long this is neither the biggest not the longest snake found in africa. It definetley comes close to the title of longest posionous snake. Every year this snake kills more people in South Africa than any other. one bite can kill a human. Read more

Selous Game Reserve

The Selous Game Reserve is a unique and unusual safari environment; a vast, thriving wildlife area of forests and woodlands around the lagoons, sandbanks and lakes of the Rufiji River.

Bigger than Switzerland and four times the size of the Serengeti, the 50 000km2 wilderness area is the most alluring safari prospect on the African continent; it’s Africa’s Big Secret, and seen as the next top destination for those in the mood for a bit of an adventure. Read more

Safari Game Drives

A safari game drive, is an african wildlife viewing experience using a Vehicle, and have been the conventional way to see Africa’s greatest landscapes and wildlife, and are in many cases one of the best. Some would urge that vehicles let you see more beacuse, your human scent and shape is disguised and you’re no longer seen as a threat: wild animals will let a vehicle much closer than they would a person on foot. It is easy to track game and, when you find it, a vehicle keeps you safe and secure. A four-wheel-drive vehicle will easily climb steep inclines to give access to great views and carry all the photographic equipment you might need, with plenty of handy places to keep your binoculars as well as a “cooler box” for soft drinks and sundowners. Read more

So where is the Best Safari in Africa?

Gone are the days when an African safari involved only the celebrated names the likes of Kenya safaris and Tanzania safaris. This is where the concept of luxury safaris, as the safari is defined today, was born.  Although many still travel to these places of legend, visitors are finding that there’s much more to a safari than a name. Zambia and Uganda  are some of the remarkable new destinations providing travellers with treasured safari experiences. Read more

Types of African Safaris we offer

To a large extent the early exploits of the early Explorers and missionaries the likes of Selous, Roosevelt, Hemingway, some  colonial pioneers others trophy hunters were conducted on foot and often only fully appreciated through the sights of their rifles or the size of the trophy animal.

Nowadays the best way to do an African safari is still on foot but emphasis is on game-viewing and photographic pursuits… Read more

Ten Commandments Of an African Safari

Africa has a lot to offer, so forget those media images you see of poor and famine stricken Africa.

Oh and you might also want to put away those images of Tarzan in Africa with wild animals always attacking him. The creator of Tarzan never visited Africa and most of the episodes were filmed in southern California.

What Im about to share with you should be extremely useful so don’t discard it. You will be glad you read it. Read more

Breath - Taking Experience At Naro Moru River Lodge

Naro Moru River Lodge is one of the places that you should be having on your list on places to visit before the end of this year if you are a resident in Kenya. The lodge is located 170 km from Nairobi making it a 2 hour journey. One would opt to use the karatina Nyeri road to Marua River Bridge then off Kiganjo before heading to Nanyuki. The place is situated at the side of Mount Kenya; therefore by the time you get there, the temperatures are quite low since the altitude is 2155 m above sea level. Read more

Responsible tourism- Eco tourism

An African beach holiday/vacation can do more bad than good to the environment and the locals. As with anything when profits come before anything else including the environment then it is easy to see how some places that have been created as tourist areas can do more damage to the environment than good.

For starters some African governments have been selling prime beachside locations to foreigners, sometime displacing the communities nearby and other time affecting even their livelihoods by making some beaches exclusive. In some areas of Africa virtually all the infrastructure is foreign owned from the shopping centres to the restaurants, hotels and curio shops. Read more

A deeper understanding of wild Africa

To truly appreciate wild Africa, we must adapt a different way of seeing. The whole is often much greater than the sum of its parts. So instead of seeing the animals and plants that make up the ecosystem individually we should seek to understand and visualise the web of interactions and relationships that make up the ecosystem.

Whether on a Kenya safari or in Kruger national park in South Africa, instead of looking at wild Africa through our binoculars and magnifying glasses we should seek rather to float above the earth on an imaginary balloon and appreciate the landscape in its entirety rather than in bits.

When ecologists use the word landscape they often use it in reference to the climate, soil, vegetation, animals and topography that forms an interacting unit.

Landscapes have spatial dimensions including the dimension of time. Just like in an art form or in language involving the construction of sentences, the position of parts in relation to one another is crucial in determining the outcome.

Often where an organism is found gives a vital clue as to why it is found there. The time dimension is equally essential because everything we see in a landscape has a history, like a legion of shadowy ghosts matching behind it.

Over the years the African continent has allowed the evolution and maintenance of unusually diverse plant and animal species, intricately adapted to each other and to their environment.

Just as the shape and height of a building are determined by its foundations, so does the soil set the limits of form and function of an ecosystem.

Herbivore numbers are limited not by the total amount of plant material produced by the ecosystem but by the quality of nutritious, palatable and accessible food. Grazer numbers are limited by the quality of grass (In particular the nitogen content), while browser numbers are limited by the quality of available and edible material during the critical dry seasons when most trees have shade their leaves.

It seems self-evident that the number of predators has a direct impact on the prey population, but the reality is a little more complicated. Other factors also play a role including preference of predators for particular types of prey.

Predator preferences are partly influenced by the ease with which the different species can be captured, the size of the meal and also partly due to learned behaviour.

Individual predators tend to specialize on just a few species of prey usually the ones that were the main part of their diet when they were learning to hunt.

Southern Africa

Southern Africa offers an wide variety of attractions and landscapes from the enormous dunes of the Kalahari to the quasi-Siberian highlands of Lesotho where you can even go skiing in winter. There is also Wildlife viewing, and beautiful sandy beaches.

Southern Africa’s national parks and reserves rival those of East Africa and are also considered relatively cheaper. Among the most famous of these are Kruger National Park, Botswana’s Chobe National Park and the Okavango delta and Namibia’s Etosha Pan.

Namibia’s Namib desert is home to the worlds tallest dunes and the bizarre two leafed aloe also known as Welwitschia mirabilis, which can live for up to 2000 years.

For those thinking of canoeing then the Zambezi river is a great place to see animals from your canoe. It is this river that is responsible for the majestic Victoria falls. Victoria falls is accessible from both Zimbabwe and Zambia, and here you can participate in a wide variety of adventure sports, from bungee jumping and white-water rafting to helicopter rides.

For those looking for beach vacation spots, the Indian Ocean is the place, especially in Mozambique, teh island of Madagascar and the Comoros.

The island of Madagascar is best know for its biodiversity with new species being discovered all the time and the island is also popular with eco tourists.

For those interested in history there are remains of the slave trade that took part centuries ago as well as those of the first missionaries in the region.

Culturally southern Africa most emblematic people are the Zulu whose militaristic nineteenth century empire under the leadership of Shaka Zulu spread across this vast region and causing havoc. Southern Africa’s Bushmen or San are the original inhabitants of this region and survived on hunting game and gathering wild fruits and plants.

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