by Sarah Duff | Mar 30, 2016 | Africa, Zimbabwe
Travelling to the bush at the tail end of rainy season means you really have to get into birds if you aren’t already. In the dry season in Hwange National Park, many thousands of elephants in huge herds – just part of a population of 75 000 – can be seen, along with...
by Sarah Duff | Mar 18, 2016 | Africa, Botswana, Wildlife, Zimbabwe
A trip through national parks and wilderness areas of northern Botswana in rainy season: gliding through a channel of the Okavango Delta in a mokoro; flying above the Delta in a small helicopter above rivers and islets, water lily-studded lagoons and marshes full of...
by Sarah Duff | Mar 18, 2016 | Africa, Botswana, Wildlife, Zimbabwe
Everything seemed to be in slow motion as we glided through the channel in a fibreglass mokoro like a knife through runny honey. The water lily-dotted water was as silvery, calm and flat as a mirror, reflecting a big sky full of rain clouds. Serenity reigned, and the...
by Sarah Duff | Mar 3, 2015 | Africa, Festivals
In just over two months’ time thousands of people will be gathering in the middle of nowhere (otherwise known as the Tankwa Karoo in the Northern Cape) for South Africa’s most unique, exhilarating and exciting festival, AfrikaBurn. It offers a chance to step...
by Sarah Duff | May 7, 2014 | Africa, desert, Festival, Festivals
The dust is settling in the Tankwa Karoo as another AfrikaBurn has drawn to close. For a week, 9000 people turned a farm in the middle of nowhere in the Northern Cape into a temporary town – a surreal world of art, music, dress up and performances. When...
by Sarah Duff | Mar 26, 2014 | Africa, Kenya, Wildlife
Kenya’s been on my African travel wish list for a long time. I’ve dreamed of visiting the country that’s home to vast plains teeming with game home to the greatest wildlife migration on earth, the continent’s most famous tribe, the Maasai and tropical...
