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It was great to be back on Mashatu. Our first afternoon underlined exactly why the place is so special, especially in the company of a camera and a small band of like-minded travellers. Two leopard sightings provided a taster of...
A massive yawn. Not normally what you’d expect from an African safari. We finished high tea faster than usual after arriving on the houseboat; bolting home-made quiche and sponge-cake because our guide announced a group of elephants were about to...
A baptism by river, but in a good way. We were barely settled into our seats on the photo boat and still busy locking our cameras onto the in-built tripods, when we suddenly found ourselves, lens to trunk, photographing a...
Getting off to a roaring start is always a win. And this was certainly up there. Just an hour or two after landing in Botswana we were pointing our cameras at a pride of 11 lions feeding on a buffalo...
Driving the Majale riverbed and the open spaces of this southern Botswana reserve’s scenic plains, past scrubby thickets of low mopani and yellow-blossomed rhigozum, scouring the muscular and tentacled branches of the giant Mashatu trees, our visit to Mashatu last...
The A-listers, the headliners, the bucketlisters and the wishlisters, the iconic, the classic, the must-sees and the Big Five. There’s no doubting the magnetism of Africa’s celebrity species. But sexy as they are these superstars are by no means the...
A leopard in a Mashatu tree. These majestic trees, aka Nyalaberry trees, are prolific in Botswana’s Northern Tuli reserve, and give their name to Mashatu game reserve, part of Northern Tuli. The trees have become known as Mashatu trees because...
Chobe lapa! Scrolling through the long reel of memories and subjects still running through our heads following our latest nine night visit to the Chobe, it’s proving difficult to find the best place to press pause and begin our latest...
The new Pangolin Chobe Hotel, which opened last year just in time to receive guests on our September Uniquely Chobe safari, has been named ‘Best New Hotel in Africa’ in the prestigious World Travel Awards. With its sweeping roof, shaped...
