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...

‘Believe me my young friend,’ says Rat to Mole in Kenneth Graham’s‘’Wind in the Willows’’, ‘there is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats’… …and when the boat is a Pangolin photo boat...

The best things come in threes – well that’s what they say. Except maybe leopards. Leopards are singletons, shy, solo, stand-offish, masters of mystery and stealth. You don’t spot one readily, pardon the pun, and getting the chance to photograph...

It’s always an exciting sight when you come in to land at Kasane airport in Botswana and suddenly, after flying high over mile upon mile of Chobe National Park bushland, you’re met with the snaking curves of that mighty blue...

It’s not every-day you find yourself the filling in a lion/elephant sandwich, but that’s what our guests experienced on the Botswana leg of our final 2017 visit to the Chobe and Zimanga, just a few short weeks ago. We were...

If we asked you to list 10 things you might see on a photo safari to Africa’s game-rich Chobe river in Botswana, better still if we asked you to list 20 things, 50 things even, and then some, we bet...