Starting in the 2024 season, Inzila will offer a unique 6-night safari covering both northwest and southeast areas of Hwange National Park. This will allow guests to experience Hwange’s diverse landscapes while enjoying the consistency of the same guide and camp throughout their safari.
EcoTraining Opens New Camp in Botswana
Mashatu Game Reserve is a name that makes the heart beat faster for those lucky to have visited. Tucked away in a less-visited corner of…
Tsala Trails Explore New Frontiers
Organising a walking safari visit to some of South Africa’s remotest reserves has just become easier, thanks to the arrival of specialist walking safari outfit,…
Wilderness Backpacking with Wildside Trails
The presence of “big game” is the ingredient that makes wilderness walking in Africa so special. And the chance to hike and camp out with the sounds of browsing elephants and roaring lions coming from the darkness adds an even more memorable dimension. There’s really only one destination that offers that – South Africa.
Since late 2022 there’s a new name – Wildside Trails.
New Trails Camp in the Great Karoo
Overnight walking safaris are offered in a number of private reserves, and last week Samara Karoo Reserve launched a new dedicated trails camp with the opening of Plains Camp. “We have operated seasonal fly-camping for a while, and Plains Camp builds on a growing trend towards getting back to basics in Nature” says GM Marnus Ochse. “There’s no better way to reconnect with our ecological intelligence”.
Five Ways to Save on the Cost of a Walking Safari
They say it’s better to die with memories not dreams, and surely one of life’s great experiences is to spend time on safari in the…
Victoria Falls Walking Safaris
It’s the destination of a lifetime, and also an opportunity to experience an activity as old as humankind – walking in wilderness with Africa’s big…
Take a Walk in an African Parks Park
“Before 2019, I have found more than twenty poached elephants and several wounded and dying. Since African Parks has taken over, they have not lost…
New Multi-day Trail in the Limpopo Borderlands
There’s beauty in African borders. Not at the crossing points and their tiresome bureaucracy in scrappy towns; but the borderlands themselves can be areas of…
A Time for Trails in Liwonde
When the water levels fall, the walking can begin. Marshes and pans shrink, small rivers turn into dusty dongas and large ones can be waded.…