Africa Travel Guide

BootsnAll 2009 East African Photographic Safari

Peter Baxter — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:16:55 +0000

This year BootsNall World Adventures is offering a special training/photographic trip to the Serengeti and surrounding wildlife conservancies in the company of wildlife and ravel photographer Sam D�Cruz. This is a superb opportunity to test your wider photographic skills in one of the world�s premier eco-travel destinations, while enjoying, first class accommodation, trip organization, guiding [...]

The Paradise Islands of Mozambique

Peter Baxter — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:35:36 +0000

The coast of Mozambique is a region of multiple charms, with 2000km or more of beautiful tropical coastline, a growing number of blended beach resorts, camps and lodges, a history that is ancient by any measure, and a collection of islands that form part of the Bazaruto Archipelago that are aptly named The Paradise Islands. Vilanculos This [...]

The Vumba Mountains Zimbabwe

Peter Baxter — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:04:29 +0000

The Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe has a curious history. It formed a bastion between Portuguese and British ambitions during the colonial period, and has a geographic distinction that tends to cast it in shades of Avalon rather than the central heartland of Africa. It is a beautiful region of green forests, rolling hills and occasional [...]

Antelope Park Zimbabwe

Peter Baxter — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:05:36 +0000

Situated a few miles south of the small central Zimbabwean town of Gweru, Antelope Park is a private wildlife and conservation establishment geared primarily towards lion protection, conservation and research. It is the home of African Lion Environmental Research Trust (ALERT) and the world’s first Lion Rehabilitation & Release into the Wild Programme. The Park The Midlands [...]

Volunteering in Africa. Travel the World and Make an Impact.

Peter Baxter — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:41:28 +0000

If medicine or health care beckons you as a career option, then one of the most valid avenues of experience available to you today is foreign volunteer work. With the many crippling healthcare challenges facing the continent, it is as a volunteer in Africa that you will experience one of the most rewarding ways of [...]

Victoria Falls

Peter Baxter — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:55:20 +0000

David Livingstone, who was a man not known for poetic turns of phrase, said of this most iconic of southern Africa features, that so lovely was it that angels must have paused in their flight. He named it Victoria Falls after the ruling British monarch, upon whom angles seldom gazed, while the local people named [...]

Chobe National Park

Peter Baxter — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:49:44 +0000

Chobe is Botswana�s first established national park, and one of the most diverse and important wildlife conservancies in Africa. It is situated at the four corners region where the boundaries of Zimbabwe, Botswana, Angola, Zambia and Namibia meet, and is adjacent to the wetland confluence of the Zambezi and Chobe Rivers, in one of the [...]

Makadikadi Pans National Park

Peter Baxter — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:17:25 +0000

Featured Botswana Safari The Makadikadi (Makgadikgadi) complex of salt pans lies adjacent to the rather inconsequential junction town of Nata in central Botswana, and is a region frequently missed en-route either to the Okavango Delta or to the four corners of northern Botswana. These are flat lands with very little visible, above-ground feature, but hidden [...]

Okavango Delta - Botswana

Peter Baxter — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:31:02 +0000

Situated in the far northwest of Botswana, the Okavango delta is arguably one of the most unique wildlife destinations in Africa.

What Barack Means To Africa

Peter Baxter — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:25:18 +0000

His election to the highest office on the globe has been greeted with great jubilation in Africa, as it has everywhere.