Zambezi Region – Travel Namibia

August 27, 2019

How to Start Birding

If this story will not motivate you to start birding you can just as well die and never be able to enjoy life to its fullest. If you are an anti-social animal, birding is for you. If you are a party animal and crowd pleaser you will even like it that much more, entertaining your guest with another wonderful sighting of your first 50 birds (mossies?).

March 26, 2020

African Monarch Lodges and The Sijwa Project

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Text Elzanne McCulloch Photographs Le Roux van Schalkwyk [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] We meander through the wet and green wonderland that is Bwabwata National Park. Our guide Eustace […]

April 2, 2020

Snake Eagles of Namibia

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Text and Photographs Pompie Burger I don’t like snakes, and I am scared of snakes. The fact that I know Dr Christo Buys, the snake […]

March 4, 2022

FOUR RIVERS – Go slow and experience the depth, wealth and wonder of the northeast

Rièth van Schalkwyk followed the whim of a family member to break the tradition of Christmas at the seaside, packed the camper for two weeks of slow travel and camped on the banks of the Kavango, Zambezi, Chobe and Kwando to discover the magic of looking closer and staying longer.

March 7, 2023

Oh Bwabwata, there’s a hippo on my stoep!

Bwabwata National Park is a place unlike any other and its lush woodlands and waterways – with the plethora of game, fish, plants and birdlife it supports – are by far the key attraction. One of the area’s many hidden treasures can be found at Ndhovu Safari Lodge.

January 17, 2024

The Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier ELEPHANT SURVEY

The first flight to begin an elephant survey covering parts of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe took off from a dirt strip in Zimbabwe on 22 August 2022. The survey area, known as the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), hosts over half of Africa’s savanna elephants, which underlines the importance of the survey.