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From Stone Camp we drove through the Swaziland lowveld and into the heart of the Swazi sugar cane fields to Simunye. What brought us here was Pam’s fascination with the Black Mamba. The lady running the Country Club, Thea Litschka-Koen is the pioneer of snake capture and treatment for snake bite victims in Swaziland. We […]

In the early days this was cattle country! The Reilly family pioneered the Nguni cattle breed in Southern Africa and this was one of their early farms that has been converted into a wildlife reserve. Today they have black and white rhino, giraffe, kudu and Nyala in great numbers. On arrival, we were met by

On leaving Tembe we drove along the coastal road, passing Kosi Bay. This is right on the Mozambique border. We then we turned inland, crossed through Jozini and passing over the dam wall. This is a beautiful dam, with Swaziland on the opposite side to us. We were amazed to see the beautiful Tiger Lodge.

This is a reserve of some 30,000 hectares backs onto Ndumo Game Park. Tembe Elephant Park is a concession run by the Tembe Clan of the Zulus’ in conjunction with the Kwa-Zulu Natal Parks Board. With only one camp operating at the moment, it is a fully equipped with luxury tents, en suite bathrooms and

The Rocktail Bay Lodge is in the lush Maputaland Coastal Forest. The area is surrounded by forest but also close to the sea. From this lodge you can go snorkelling in the tidal pools, diving in the coral reefs or take a long walk on the beautiful beaches. They also offer you the opportunity to

The Hluhluwe Nature Reserve is famous for the restoration of the White Rhino population in Africa. This is mainly due to the efforts of Dr Ian Player and Magqubu Ntombela of the Kwa-Zulu Natal Parks board. In this reserve we stayed at the Hilltop Camp. This camp it is high up above the clouds and

We start our tour at St Lucia with a sunset cruise down the St Lucia Estuary, it is as brilliant as ever and a real mangrove swamp with all the trappings of all the hippo’s and crocodiles in the estuary, and the violin and hermit crabs in the swamps, the vegetation in the swamps is

I started the tour off by attending the Indaba Tourism Show in Durban, we stayed out at Chaka’s Cove in Chaka’s Rock, a beautiful destination on the 1st floor overlooking the sea pool and the beach. My travel companion is a DMC agent out from the USA, and we travelled daily from here to the