The Only Excursions Company That Owns Its Own Lodges. Someday is not a day of the week. If you want an outrageous Southern Africa adventure you have to get out on the highway, and in the case of … Continue reading →
Kayaking Sylvan Lake in the Black Hills, near Custer, South Dakota. In 1874 Custer led a troop column in the area in search of . . . GOLD. The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty with the Sioux was broken, resulting in … Continue reading →
Volume One, Number One of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888 with the first copies given to society members. That first edition was only 98 pages of text. Photos didn’t appear in the pages until … Continue reading →
Get On A Great Safari at www.GreatSafaris.com According to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, “The Egyptians do not all worship the same gods, excepting Isis and Osiris.” (Opening photo — The Pharaohs’ Bed Temple.) Osiris was the god … Continue reading →
Drink a Maluti in Africa’s Highest Pub. I am off on major adventures to the “Mountain Kingdom” of Lesotho. My African Travel Inc. Zulu driver, Siboni and I roll out of Durban in a comfortable van for the … Continue reading →
Home Of Zulu Kingdom Royalty. Welcome from a Zulu king and queen. Tonight I am resting where the Zulu kings slumbered, but in a modern and private Umntwana Honeymoon Suite on the banks of the … Continue reading →
Local Farmers Create A Game Park. A hundred years ago there were only 50 white rhinos in all of South Africa, but because of conservation efforts, there are now over 20,000, but only about 4,500 black rhinos, down … Continue reading →
Jetboating Into The Heart of the Jungle. Our driver forgot to pick us up from the Taunovo Bay Resort in Pacific Harbour, Fiji. We were to drive the two hour road trek to the Sigatoka River for an … Continue reading →
A Traditional Zulu Sacred Mountain. From the N2 Highway Ghost Mountain looks like an angular baboon’s molar knocked out of kilter needing to be extracted from the earthly maw. It is a tooth of time that has … Continue reading →
Rated #1 in All of Africa for Cuisine. Watch the Video about Bushmans Kloof in HD from Jetsetters.TV It is a mere 180 kilometers from Cape Town to the gateway of the Cedarberg Mountains — Citrusdal. Even though … Continue reading →
King Shaka’s Zulu’s Defeat The British Army in 1879. Today’s Isandlwana Mountain and Village. Throughout the history of warfare there have been spectacular and devastating defeats: Hannibal and his elephants slaughtered Varro’s 70,000 man Roman Legion at … Continue reading →
Track Rhinos in Zululand. South Africa has white lions so I was expecting pallid pachyderms at the White Elephant Safari Lodge and Bush Camp. Adrian, the Lodge’s lead ranger, picked me up in their Mahindra safari truck, made … Continue reading →
Get On a Great Safari With www.GreatSafaris.com Thebes is the world’s largest temple complex. Ramses II added temples at Thebes. The “Egyptian Book Of The Dead” is a western misnomer — the ancient Egyptians had no word … Continue reading →
Get On A Great Safari with www.GreatSafaris.com Cairo was never a capital or even a city of ancient pharaonic Egypt but today it is the largest urban area (founded about 970 A.D.) in the Arab world and in … Continue reading →
Located in the Heart of Swank Sandston District. There will be no argument from me — as a luxury indicator The Saxon Boutique Hotel, Villas, and Spa in Johannesburg is leading the way to superb suburbian relaxation; the … Continue reading →
Camp Jubilani No Longer Offers Elephant Rides. The Hoedspruit (Hat River in Africaan) airport is a military base for the South Africa Air Force and also an emergency landing field for the space shuttle; my South African Airways … Continue reading →
Home on the range in the Western Cape. South Africa is well known for its bushveld landscapes and the country boasts grassveld, lowveld, highveld, thornveld, and if there was a classification for sandveld or duneveld it would be … Continue reading →
Sabi Sabi Has Special Family Suites. Your family will meet many new families on a Sabi Sabi game safari; roaming the neighborhood are lion and rhino families, giraffe and impala families, and leopard and zebra families. The bushveld … Continue reading →
Click the Leopard for Great Safaris. Abu Simbel Temples: Abu Simbel is Pharaoh Ramses II’s enduring autograph in stone. Abu Simbel Is a bookmark to power and history, full of life, full of voices from the distant yesterday, forever shining in … Continue reading →
Dune Buggies, Sky Diving, and Oryx Steaks. Swakopmund is Namibia’s second largest city and the adventure capital of the country, located on the Atlantic coast. Namibia was once a German colony and then later a South African protectorate … Continue reading →
