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 →
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 →
Zululand Midlands Meander With Spa. On the 80 Kms KwaZulu-Natal Midlands Meander road trip from the Pietermaritzburg Airport my InStyle Tours driver, Carl, spots on a rolling hillock a grazing herd of Blesbok, or White Buck, so named … Continue reading →
Red Carnation Hotel at The Beach. Oysters are served at the Oyster Bar. Oysters are a health food and with modern refrigeration they can be eaten year around. But for truly fresh oysters check yourself into the … 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 →
Hike The Barrier Of Spears. The twisting but paved two lane road leading into the World Heritage Site of the 243,000 hectare uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park is one of the most dramatic, majestic, and stunning byways anywhere in the … Continue reading →
12A has the best location in Cape Town. If there had been 13 Apostles God would have had to add an additional peak to the World Heritage Site of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, and the … 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 →
Travel to Cecil Rhodes’ Diamond Kingdom. As a leisure traveler the complaint I have with modern trains is that they speed by the landscape too fast and you can’t open the windows; on a Denver to Provo … 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 →
Go On Safari With African Travel Inc. In Africa the Big 5 animals are so named because they are the most dangerous to hunt. Since the turn of the last century many of those animals have been protected … 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 →
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 →
An Awesome Journey of Adventure. I first met my Drifters Adventures Overland Tours mates on the 24-day Cape Town to Johannesburg excursion at the welcoming dinner at the Quay Restaurant at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront in Cape … Continue reading →
