During our Zimbabwe Botswana Game trail tour, day 3 takes us to a wonderful and magical place….the Great Zimbabwe Ruins. These ruins were once part of an ancient city which were inhabited by ancestors of the Shona tribe between the 11th and the 14th century. It housed over 18000 inhabitants. These ruins are a feat of ancient building practices with walls over 5 meters high and all constructed without mortar. The country’s name Zimbabwe in fact hails from these ruins and is a Shona word for “Large Stone House.”

Albert also recently came back from our Trade Route tour and had an amazing experience in South Luangwa National Park.  Here is what he had to say.

“It was our second day in the South Luangwa National Park in North Eastern Zambia which has the highest concentration of leopard. We had an excellent morning game drive in an open 4x4 with a local guide and spotted plenty of elephant, baboons and Thornicroft giraffe’s and to finish off 2 large male lions casually resting under some trees (typical male lions – never much action from them :) ).  After such a great morning we headed back to camp, but we couldn’t all help wondering if we were going to see leopard, especially here.

Dirk recently did our specialist Northern Cape Diamond and Dunes tour which visits some of the lesser known areas of South Africa.  As always the Kgalagadi doesn't disappoint.

Having not been into the Kgalagadi in over 8 years I was very excited to see what it had to offer.  On my last trip we had great sightings of 3 big cats and incredible birding – so my expectations were high.

After a fairly long drive from Kimberly we arrived at the park, checked in and had an easy afternoon around the pool, as my clients wanted to rest and not go out on a game drive.

The Cape to Vic Falls camping tour (CV21) is an iconic tour through Southern Africa and guide Chris Z chats about visiting the Okavango Delta on this trip.

We leave Maun early in the morning in open 4WD vehicles  heading  North-East, crossing the buffalo fence and out into the remote wilderness of the Okavango Delta.  Our 1.5hr – 2hr drive takes us to our polling station where we meet our local guide and the community who will spend the next two days with us.  We pair up, with our sleeping bags and limited luggage (just enough for two days), and settle into our mekoros ready for a relaxing 2hrss.   In our mekoros we lazily drifted through the reeds, zig-zagging  our way to our secluded campsite.