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 | | Elephant at sunset, Botswana |
What a difference a month makes! February, normally one of Botswana's wettest months, has been hot and dry save for a few localised thunderstorms.The result has been dramatic as the grasses are already fading to yellow and the water level in the Thamalakane River, that flows through Maun, has dropped substantially.
Suddenly the Elephants and other animals are concentrating around permanent water such as the Khwai River, which is unusual for this time of year. Looks like we can expect some great game-viewing a little earlier than expected this year!
Yours in African Safari
Claire Vial
Managing Director
Visit our website or call us on 0800 528 101 or email us for more information.
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2011 Guided African Safaris SPACES ARE FILLING UP FAST
We only have very limited places on our 2 guided African Safaris this year to Namibia and Botswana. Our 21-day Kenya and Tanzania safari is fully booked.
If you are thinking 2011 is your year for the adventure of a lifetime, you need to act now. Email us or call us on 0800 528 101.
20-day Namibia Culture & Wildlife Safari - June 27 to July 16
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Bushman, Namibia |
Discover the best of Namibia; marvelling at the country's most magnificent natural attractions, including the enormous dunes of the Namib-Naukluft National Park, the beauty of Damaraland, the big game of Etosha National Park, the lush landscape of the Caprivi Strip and the fascinating cultures of the Herero, Himba and Bushman. This journey ends with a visit to Victoria Falls - a World Heritage Site.
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15-day Botswana Wildlife Safari - July 17 to 31
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Elephant, Chobe River |
Travelling by 4WD this full-service authentic mobile camping safari, lives and breaths pure wildlife. With 10 days in wildlife areas we visit Nxai Pan National Park - the world's largest salt pans. From there we make our way through to Maun, the gateway to the Okavango Delta; then on to Moremi Game Reserve, where we discover the delta by boat. We camp in Savuti, an area well known for Wild dog, lion and large herds of 'bull' elephants. In Chobe National Park we take a sunset boat cruise on the Chobe River to view elephants, hippos, crocodiles and much more. We finish in Victoria Falls with a visit to this World Heritage Site.
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21-day Kenya and Tanzania Wildlife Safari *** FULL ***
Our 2011 departure is fully booked. If you are keen for 2012, email us now to register your interest! |
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Jane's Journey - A documnetary on Jane Goodall
Saturday, March 5 - Screening at Academy Theatre, Auckland
 More than 20 years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall, now 75, decided to give up her career as a primatologist, as well as her private life, in order to devote her entire energy to saving our endangered planet. Since then she's been spending 300 days a year scouring the globe on her mission to spread hope for future generations. She has taken on the responsibilities of a UN Messenger of Peace, has been honoured with countless awards, was appointed "Dame of the British Empire" and was even admitted to the "Légion d'Honneur", the highest decoration of France.
In "Jane's Journey", we accompany her on her travels across several continents, with unprecedented access to her intense and exciting past. From her childhood home in Bournemouth, England, we embark to 'Gombe National Park' on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Tanzania, her second home. This is where she began her groundbreaking research nearly half a century ago, and where to this day she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her the internationally recognized activist so loved and deeply respected.
"Jane's Journey" is an intimate portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon - an exceptional woman, possibly the most fascinating woman of our time, whose scientific breakthroughs are considered to be among the most important of the past 100 years.  | | Click here to see a preview of Jane's Journey |
The visual scope of "Jane's Journey" spans a fascinating arc from the beaches of Bournemouth to the flatlands of Nebraska, and from the rainforests of Gombe to the melting glaciers of Greenland, offering spectacular footage of Jane's touching encounters with animals both wild and domestic as well as with humans, from Hollywood celebrities to traumatized children in African refugee camps. Whoever encounters Jane Goodall irrevocably falls under her spell. As The Boston Globe once put it: "To be with Jane Goodall is like walking with Mahatma Gandhi." |
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Namibia's entire coastline set to become a national park
 Namibia is one of the worlds most beautiful and fascinating countries with a huge variety of scenery to be enjoyed. The apricot coloured sand dunes, the Skeleton Coast with its wrecks and seal colonies, the mountains of Damaraland with its desert adapted animals, petrified forests and ancient rock paintings, the expansive Etosha Saltpan - a shimmering white mass that stretches for miles.... The range of interests is equally wide and the guides in Namibia are multi-disciplined. They are well versed in fauna, flora, astronomy and history. 
The Skeleton Coast was an area much feared by seafarers who were regularly driven onto the shore by the onshore winds and confused by the dense fogs caused by cold Antartic current. As you stand on the utterly deserted coastline as the Atlantic breakers crashing in, you can imagine the sense of desolation they must have felt and can still see the shipwrecks littering the coastline and huge seal colonies. Although the landscape is utterly remote, the temperatures are consistently between 25 and 30 degrees. This scenery is some of the most spectacular in Namibia.
Click here to view a sample of our Namibia safaris.
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Latest news from Africa ...
Check out our blog at www.blog.africansafaris.co.nz It contains insights on safari travel, African wildlife, and topical safari related issues. Some of our latest articles include:
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Yellow Fever Update
Following recent announcements by the Ugandan Ministry of Health, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), of confirmed reports of a Yellow Fever outbreak in Northern Uganda, agents are advised that valid vaccination certification is mandatory for all travellers entering Tanzania. Travellers arriving into Tanzania without a valid certificate will be vaccinated at the airport.
Travellers to other parts of East Africa, including Kenya, Zanzibar and the rest of Uganda, are also strongly advised to have a valid vaccination certificate.
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Photo Draw Winner
 Thank you to all those who entered our February photo draw.
CONGRATULATIONS to Wendy Burnand has won an A3 print of a White Rhino, photographed in Lake Nakuru, Kenya. Click here to enter our March photo draw. |
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Monthly Desktop Wallpaper
March's Desktop Wallpaper features a photo of an African Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer), the national bird of Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Click here to download our March desktop wallpaper. |
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Book Giveaway
CONGRATULATIONS to Vicki Olsen - winner of our February Book Giveaway.
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African Wildlife - Through the eyes of a Kiwi |
To get your 'safari juices' going, we are giving away another copy of Rod East's book - "African Wildlife - Through the eyes of a Kiwi".
Simply forward this email to two friends and go in to March's draw to win this fabulous photo-essay!
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Do you know ...
Mount Longonot National Park in Kenya is an extinct volcano and contains crater forest, scenic landscape, and views of Lake Naivasha and the Great Rift Valley.
The name Longonot is derived from the Maasai word Oloonong'ot meaning mountains of many spurs or steep ridges. Longonot National Park covers 52 square km most of it being occupied by Mount Longonot - a young volcano rising to 2,776 metres above sea level. The sides of the mountain have beautiful V-shaped valleys and ridges.
The stony soils have little vegetation but the crater has an impenetrable forest. Due to the nature of the terrain Mount Longonot has no roads and visitors hike to the top and rim of the crater. |
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