What Electrical Plugs are used in Southern and East Africa?
When you’re travelling through Africa, technology should be the least of your worries. However, you do need things like your cellphones and cameras to keep in touch and to capture special moments during your unforgettable trip. To be prepared for charging your...
Close Encounters with Animals in Africa
When you decide to head off on your African Adventure Safari, you are not always sure how much or what kind of wildlife you will be able to spot. So here is a guide to some places in Africa where you can get close-up to some amazing animals and have experiences that...
What to pack for an African overlanding safari
To get the most out of your African overlanding safari, it’s all about being prepared, which means packing the right stuff. Here’s our comprehensive packing list to help you have the best overlanding trip possible. Just remember, less is more! Don’t try and bring...
South Africa’s top 6 travel bloggers
South Africa has a fast-growing travel blogging community, with inspiring blogs dedicated to everything from camping and long overland adventures to music festivals and weekends away being posted every day. We’ve picked six of our favourite South African travel...
Five reasons to love camping in Africa
One really amazing thing about travelling in Africa is getting to experience true wilderness – vast areas of forests, savanna, mountains, gorges and deserts inhabited only by animals. Camping is the best way of connecting with all the amazing natural places that you...
7 things to know before you go on safari
Inspired to book the holiday of a lifetime? Here are 7 things to know before you start planning your African safari. Wild animals Something that people seem to forget when they’re on a safari is that the animals they’re encountering are wild – as in untamed and...
What is an African safari?
Have you ever wondered to yourself – what is an African safari? You probably hear the word safari a lot in connection with holidays in Africa but you might not know exactly what it entails. If you’re inspired to plan a trip to see the amazing wildlife of Africa,...
The 10 best viral African safari videos
The next best thing to going on an African safari is watching all the action of the savanna or bushveld on the small screen at home. While we love National Geographic documentaries, Sir David Attenborough’s excellent nature programs and the Discovery Channel,...
How to do a Ngorongoro Crater safari on a budget
Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater is the largest unflooded and unbroken crater in the world, the site of a massive once-active volcano that last erupted millions of years ago. Covering a massive area of three hundred square kilometres, the crater is home to some of the...
Best books about Africa
Looking for some literary inspiration before you begin your African safari, or a good read to keep you occupied on your African overlanding trip? Here’s our pick of the best books about Africa, which span the range of fiction, memoir, journalism and travel writing....
The greatest mountain peaks to hike in Africa
Africa offers wonderful safaris; it’s riddled with gorgeous coastlines, attractions, historical monuments and natural phenomenons – the continent really has so much to offer in making your entire bucket list experiences a reality. One I am sure you’re dying to...
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