Nov 26, 2012 | Culture, Travel Blog, Destinations and Attractions, Activities and Adventure
Much of African culture resides in oral tradition; stories are passed on from parents to children, who in turn pass on those stories to their own children. The stories often develop along the way, the meaning and messages adapted slightly to fit the circumstances of...
Oct 22, 2012 | Travel Blog, Destinations and Attractions, Activities and Adventure, Culture
In the opening scene of The God’s Must Be Crazy, a glass coke bottle falls from a passing helicopter and lands among a group of nomadic San people. At first a thing of fascination for the group, it later becomes a source of conflict and an object of evil that needs to...
Jul 11, 2012 | Travel Blog, Activities and Adventure
You’d be hard pressed to find, anywhere else on earth, a place that evokes such contrasting feelings of awe, peace and foreboding all at once. Nothing can prepare you for the stark beauty that is The Skeleton Coast. This gash of earth was aptly named “the place...
Apr 11, 2012 | Travel Blog, Conservation and Wildlife
How often does wildlife conservation cross your mind? Most would say that our lives are so busy these days that we are so preoccupied with our own survival that there is little time to worry about the rest of the planet. In Namibia, a land of harsh climates, daily...