An insider’s overview from the experts at Steppes Travel. Why Visit? Namibia is an exciting place to visit: it is wild and inaccessible and, despite being the size of Spain and Germany combined, it has a population of just two million. Eighty per cent of Namibia is desert, and it is amazing to see how […]
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The top athlete tells Forbes Travel Guide about her favorite spots and why her home island is so special. Forbes – Forbes Travel Guide https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestravelguide/2018/10/31/surfer-malia-manuels-guide-to-kauai/
Farm-to-fork cuisine may be a trend, but for Manlee Siu, it’s a way of life. Forbes Travel Guide chats with the top toque. Forbes – Forbes Travel Guide https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestravelguide/2018/10/31/this-palm-beach-chef-will-make-you-want-to-eat-your-vegetables/
We salute the strong presence of images from Africa in the 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. We shouldn’t be surprised, given the depth of subject matter in the world’s most exciting continent, but we’re excited to see so many photographs from Africa feature in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. In […]
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Every visitor to the African bush wants to see an elephant. Alongside their intelligence, intense social ties, vulnerability to emotion and phenomenal memories, they’re physically extraordinary too, as Travel Africa reveals. Size – the secret to survival The elephant’s gargantuan proportions determine almost everything physical about it. Size has enabled it to survive over the […]
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For many wildlife lovers, seeing wild chimpanzees is a dream. But what is the experience actually like? Kush Patel describes his visit to Mahale, in southern Tanzania. As I flipped through an article on human evolution, I wondered what Homo erectus would think about modern man. Apart from our obvious achievements (skyscrapers, medicine, moon landing), […]
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How does seeing a photograph of an African animal or landscape make you feel? How can a photographer try to capture the atmosphere and emotion of a scene as well as record the image itself? Fans of Heinrich van den Berg will know that he has, for some time, been exploring different ways to use […]
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‘Seriously?’ This – or similar – is the standard response when guides inform guests that a rock hyrax’s closest relative is the elephant. Are they even looking at the same animal? (Picture credit: Mike Unwin) Binoculars are raised for a closer scrutiny of the rotund, furry little creatures clustered atop the boulder. Elephants? Perhaps they’re […]
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In 2017 the South Luangwa in Zambia was declared the world’s first ‘Sustainable National Park’ by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). But what does this mean, exactly? We asked Adrian Coley, a lodge operator in the Luangwa Valley, to give us the inside track on the impact of tourism in this important wildlife […]
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Sue Watt can’t resist a novel way of transferring from Victoria Falls to Hwange National Park “She’s a bit of a faded lady, but she’s lots of fun,” Butch says of the new love in his life. And having spent the night with her, I have to say he’s summed her up pretty well. His […]
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