We will be running at least 2 guided African Safaris in 2012, with exact dates and pricing to be confirmed. 

• July 2012 - 15-day Botswana Wildlife Safari
• August 2012 - 14-day Kenya Migration Safari + optional Uganda or Tanzania extension
• February 2013 - 14-day Tanzania Calving Safari + optional Uganda or Kenya extension  

  Email us or call us on 0800 528 101 and register your interest.  

Elephants at Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana

Photo Draw Winner

Ground Squirrels, Namibia

Thank you to all those who entered our June photo draw.

CONGRATULATIONS to Kat Stillwell.  She has won an A3 print of a Ground Squirrel, photographed in Etosha National Park, Namibia.  Colonies numbering up to thirty individuals live in a complicated network of interconnecting burrows: they are poor climbers, and so remain mostly either on or under the ground.

Click here to enter our July photo draw.

Monthly Desktop Wallpaper 

Chimpanzee, Ngamba Island, Uganda

July's Desktop Wallpaper features a photo of a Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).  Chimpanzees are members of the Hominidae family, along with gorillas, humans, and orangutans. Chimpanzees split from human evolution about 6 million years ago and the two chimpanzee species are the closest living relatives to humans, all being members of the Hominini tribe.  

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Rock formation in Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe

The Matobo National Park, a World Heritage Site, is a visual wonder of giant ancient granite formations and balancing boulders, or "kopjes" as they are called locally. They commence some 35 kilometres south of Bulawayo, in southern Zimbabwe. The area was given its name by the great Mzilikazi, founder of the Ndebele nation. The smooth granite boulders apparently reminded him of a gathering of his old indunas or tribal council and he called the area amatobo, "the bald heads".

Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe

The Hills are also an area of considerable historical and cultural significance. San (Bushmen) lived in this region for thousands of years, leaving a rich heritage in hundreds of rock paintings. This rock art is some of the best in southern Africa, showing an incredible diversity and animation. In the many crevices and caves, clay ovens and other historic artefacts have been found. The Hills are still regarded as sacred; the local Ndebele claim this land as a sacred shrine and pray to Mwali, the God of their ancestors, to petition for rain.

Matobo National Park is also the final resting place of the controversial and famous British Imperialist Cecil John Rhodes, who requested that he be buried here on one of the massive balancing rocks - a formation called World's View.

The Matobo hills are home to an outstanding collection of rock paintings, the largest in southern Africa. There are round 700 known sites with some 20.000 paintings. They date from the late Stone Age and the Iron Age, the eldest from 13.000 years ago. The themes depicted are associated with hunting and gathering. The places still is part of a living tradition, via shrines and sacred places connected with the high God of the oracular cult Mwali.