This year, South African Tourism is celebrating 100 years since the establishment of Kruger National Park. Kruger is one of the world’s great treasures, helping to preserve and protect some of Africa’s incomparable wildlife. Kruger makes the wildlife experience accessible to all.
I tend to agree with Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan’s assertion in their film and book on the National Parks that they were “America’s Best Idea”. One of the best, anyway.…
Set within the dramatic sandstone folds of the Waterberg, Marataba Game Lodges—part of the MORE Collection—offer a compelling case study in conservation-led hospitality. Located within a privately managed concession of Marakele National Park, this 23,000-hectare partnership model has become one of South Africa’s most successful examples of ecological restoration driven by tourism.
A Wilderness Restored
Two decades ago, this corner of the Waterberg was ecologically fragile. Today, through a long-term collaboration between Marataba Game Lodges, …
Eco-Path Adventures, a safari operator in Kenya, has its own take on the safari experience. Brigit Murugi, the founder and director of Eco-Path Adventures, wants to tweak the standard industry model just a bit with its own style of travel, which she calls Slow Travel.
In terms of travel to Kenya, Slow Travel is a revisioning of the safari experience that takes the concept of sustainable tourism one step farther in its historical progression. It’s …
When in Africa, you’ll often hear passing reference to Zimbabwe’s famed hospitality, and there’s nowhere that you’d appreciate it more than at the iconic World Heritage Site of Victoria Falls. Everyone smiles warmly and greets you like an old friend, they’re all genuinely delightful. How could they not be, living in such magnificence.
A 15-minute drive in an air-conditioned minibus transported me from Victoria Falls Airport to The Elephant Camp, Zimbabwe’s ultimate luxury canvas lodge …
The annual migration of almost two million wildebeest across the Serengeti is the most spectacular wildlife show on Earth.
It’s an amazing sight, with animals filling the vast plains of Africa from horizon to horizon, following an instinctive, primal pattern in the Great Migration.
Walking for months as they follow the rains in search of lush vegetation. Dodging carnivorous crocodiles that hungrily lay in wait as they surge across deadly rivers. Giving birth on the …
My son and I arrived at the Tarangire Treetops Safari Camp in the late afternoon. A day of safari through the Tarangire National Park had put us face to face with lions, elephants, baboons and a number of gazellelike creatures of varying types. It had been a terrific first day of exploring Tanzania’s Northern Circuit, and we were eager to see firsthand the camp we had heard so much about. As the Range Rover stopped, …
