Tag Archives: Buffalo
East Africa Tour Part 3 – Botswana
We booked a day trip safari with Get Your Guide, an excellent service that we had used before. We were picked up at 7.30 for the 90-minute drive to the border post at Kazungula. As we approached from the Zambian side on the Kazungula Bridge, we could see three other countries – Botswana, Namibia & […]
East African Adventure
I am just back from 17-days in the east of Africa. It was a wonderful trip in very hospitable lands. It started with a flight change from Heathrow (ended up flying Rwandair to Lusaka via Kigali instead of via Nairobi with Kenya Airways), involved an aborted train journey (Lusaka to Livingstone 11-hours late, awful compartment/rabbit […]
Africa Day – Part Two
Today is officially Africa Day. According to the South African Government website, “Africa Day is intended to celebrate and acknowledge the successes of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU now the AU) from its creation in May 25, 1963 in the fight against colonialism and apartheid, as well as the progress that Africa has made, […]
My Top 15 Travel Pleasures – 15 to 13
15. Planning the itinerary Mrs Wilbur tells me that I am a planner and she is undoubtedly correct. I love putting together tours. This usually entails picking a country, consulting the railway timetables and compiling a spreadsheet. It is then a case of turning plan into reality. In all my many travels, you can count […]
Ndutu, Tanzania
These pictures were taken by my friend Andrew Healy in June whilst on safari, who has kindly agreed that I can share them. No words are necessary, but if these do not make you want to pay your own visit then nothing will….
