September 22, 2016

Friendly encounters – the correct way to see a rhino

After three hours the rhino trackers had found them. We parked behind a euphorbia and tried to crunch quietly over the stones to a spot where we could see them: wonderful, it was Topnotch, the cow, and her calf Troy – he’s just a year old – and they were making a good breakfast out of some bushes. The two were 200 metres away and completely unaware of us. And that’s the point…
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October 11, 2016

Namibia’s rarest wildlife gem

The African wild dog, aka the painted hunting dog or Cape hunting dog, is one of Africa’s most misunderstood yet unique and enigmatic species. Although obviously a member of the canid family and related to foxes, dholes, dingos, wolves, jackals and other dogs, it has no close relatives and is the single member of the genus Lycaon, Greek for ‘painted wolf’.
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October 14, 2016

Cousin to the fire – Carmine bee-eaters

On 22 August, give or take a day or two, the carmines arrive in their thousands to do their annual breeding thing at Kalizo. With great expectation and anticipation, Kalizo is on fire for this incredible happening every year. However, like in-laws, their departure is not that predictable, taking place from early November until late December.
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October 19, 2016

Camping in the Zambezi Region – among rivers, floodplains and forests

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Text Ginger Mauney | Main photo ©Nambwa Tented Lodge [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] here are many options along the rivers, floodplains and forests of the Zambezi Region for campers […]
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October 27, 2016

Wetlands of international importance

The thousands of flamingos, a mass of pink and white, were quietly honking as they preened and fed in the protein-rich water of the Walvis Bay Lagoon. Terns by the thousand were wheeling, circling and plunging into the water, their shrill calls a contrast to the deep honking of the flamingos. Thousands of cross-shaped forms lined the water's edge – cormorants with open wings drying in the sunlight.
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December 13, 2016

Exploring the national parks of the Zambezi Region

Imagine a pointing index finger, more than 500 kilometres long and 32 kilometres wide. This giant digit is attached to a huge fist, a landmass punctuated with soaring sand dunes and oceans of desert. Surround the finger with rivers— the mighty Zambezi, the Chobe, Linyanti—and you have the Zambezi Region, a water-rich extremity shooting from the north-eastern corner of Namibia like an arrow into the heart of Africa
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