African Blog: Okavango-delta

• Honeymoon in Paradise: Why Africa is Hot for Romance.

  kimberoo in Botswana,, Kenya,, Mozambique,, Namibia,, Seychelles,, South Africa,, Tanzania,, Zambia,, Romance,,

  March 4th, 2010 4:05pm

  Recently, friends of mine returned from their honeymoon in Zanzibar, looking tanned, glowing and amazingly happy. Well, they just did get married in beautiful Cape Town...

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• Birds of a Feather: my Top 5 Birding Spots in Southern Africa

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, Namibia,, South Africa,, Zimbabwe,, On Safari,, Wildlife,,

  March 17th, 2010 11:01am

  Funny people, bird watchers (I should know - I am one myself). Capable of dropping everything in pursuit of some wind-blown vagrant or unpronounceable rarity, bird watchers (birders to their...

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• No Rain, No Gain: Why Travel to Botswana in the Off Season.

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, On Safari,, Travel Tips,, Wildlife,,

  April 13th, 2010 3:56pm

  So Botswana has a rainy season but don't panic just yet. Considering the extreme north of the country experiences the highest annual average rainfall at 650mm (about the same as London) and the bl...

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• Sweeping Herds: the 2 Great African Migrations You Probably Won’t Have Heard Of.

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, Zambia,, On Safari,, Wildlife,,

  May 12th, 2010 11:46am

  I reckon it's Basil Fawlty's fault: the manic Torquay hotelier's "herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains" line has long been part of the English lexicon and partly inspired this write...

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• Odd Couples: African Animals in Unlikely Relationships

  thefynbosguy in On Safari,, Wildlife,,

  June 7th, 2010 7:45am

  All Good Things Come to Those Who Wait: Honey badger/Goshawk The Honey Badger is a bad-tempered 15kg ball of bristling fur and sharp teeth with a reputation for punching way above ...

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• Game Viewing by Boat

  emmagass in Botswana,, Zambia,, Zimbabwe,, African Adventures,, On Safari,, Travel Tips,,

  July 9th, 2010 4:07pm

  Water is the life source of the African bush; spending enough time by the water holes, dams and rivers of wild Africa will guarantee magnificent animal and bird sightings. ...

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• Delta in the Desert: How the Okavango Delta Works

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, On Safari,, Wildlife,,

  July 19th, 2010 9:46am

  The Okavango Delta is, without question, one of the natural world's finest creations. An enormous freshwater wetland fed by an enigmatic river, it sits surrounded by wild Kalahari woodland and savan...

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• In the Trees: Tree Houses in Africa

  kimberoo in Botswana,, Malawi,, South Africa,, Tanzania,, Zambia,, Quick lists,, Quirky Stuff,, Romance,,

  August 2nd, 2010 5:37pm

  A tree house in Africa is not like the tree house you used to play in as a youngster, in fact, many of them are filled with four poster beds, antique furniture and Pers...

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• The Secret World of the Night Safari

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, Kenya,, Namibia,, South Africa,, Tanzania,, African Adventures,, Wildlife,,

  August 24th, 2010 8:49am

  Ever wondered why 90% of the lions you see during the day are lying around, belly-up and snoozing? Ditto the snoring leopard in the tree. And why don't we ever see all those small mammals wi...

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• Doggone It: the Best Places to See Wild Dog

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, South Africa,, Tanzania,, On Safari,, Wildlife,,

  September 21st, 2010 8:19am

  Painted Wolves, Cape Hunting Dogs, African Wild Dogs - call them what you will but one thing is for sure: after the gaspingly rare Ethiopian Wolf, the Wild Dog is Africa's most endangered large carnivore whose number...

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• Stealth Tactics: the Best Places to See Leopard

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, Kenya,, South Africa,, Tanzania,, Zambia,, African Adventures,, On Safari,, Travel Tips,, Wildlife,,

  September 27th, 2010 8:47am

  I spent 5 years leading commercial safaris in Botswana in the 1990s; it's wall-to-wall big game there, but even if we'd seen lions killing buffalo, huge herds of elephant, stripy seas of migrating zebra and ...

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• Getting High: Views Over Africa

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, Kenya,, Namibia,, Tanzania,, African Adventures,, On Safari,,

  November 10th, 2010 12:01pm

  Africa is a big continent: in fact, China, the US, Europe and India could all fit all their land masses into Africa and there'd still be room for Argentina. So ...

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• Africa’s Most Beautiful & Striking Antelope

  kimberoo in Botswana,, Kenya,, Namibia,, South Africa,, Tanzania,, Zambia,, Zimbabwe,, Wildlife,,

  December 2nd, 2010 2:52pm

  I was on safari at Sanbona Game Reserve recently - a beautiful private reserve located in the Karoo in the Western Cape, and something really stood out for me: ...

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• After the Rains: Africa Transformed

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, South Africa,, African Adventures,, On Safari,,

  February 23rd, 2011 9:40am

  The thing about Southern Africa is that it's - generally speaking - a dry place: rain tends to fall in miserly amounts and only at certain times of the year. But what rain does fall is usually enough to transform landscapes,...

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• Botswana Lodges: 3 of the Best

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, On Safari,, Quick lists,,

  April 1st, 2011 9:39am

  I'm a lucky guy. No really I am: I lived and worked in Botswana during the 1990s and had the opportunity to stay gratis at luxury safari lodges with per person per night prices that made me wince then and couldn't e...

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• Wrong Place, Wrong Time: When NOT to go on Safari

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, Namibia,, South Africa,, Zambia,, Zimbabwe,, On Safari,, Travel Tips,, Wildlife,,

  April 4th, 2011 2:57pm

  Part 1: Southern Africa It's one of the most commonly asked questions in the travel industry: "When's the best time to go on safari?" And the soothing answers from the ...

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• Noah Way: The Okavango Delta Floods 2011

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, News & Current Affairs,, On Safari,,

  April 14th, 2011 3:41pm

  The warning signs were obvious - heavier than normal rain in Angola; a current high water table in Botswana; a late-burst rainy season - and now come the consequences. ...

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• The KAZA Transfrontier Park: the Future of Conservation?

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, Namibia,, Zambia,, Zimbabwe,, News & Current Affairs,, On Safari,, Wildlife,,

  April 28th, 2011 11:17am

  In December 2006, the leaders of 5 African countries - Botswana, Angola, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia - did something quite extraordinary: gathering at Victoria Falls, they each signed a Memorandum of Unders...

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• Botswana by the Month: a guide to what happens when.

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, On Safari,, Travel Tips,,

  May 9th, 2011 11:55am

  Funny thing, weather: while landlocked Botswana may not have the alarming seasonal variations of, say, where'd-this-12-feet-of-snow-come-from-Canada or the amusing mix of sun-wind-rain-hot-cold that I experience here in Cape Town...

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• The KAZA Transfrontier Park - Co-operative Conservation in Action

  thefynbosguy in Botswana,, Namibia,, Zambia,, Zimbabwe,, News & Current Affairs,, Wildlife,,

  May 18th, 2011 1:00pm

  In a previous blog I wrote about the formation of the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, an ambitious project designed to link ...

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