Crocodile Bridge Rest Camp (Kruger National Park, Gomomdwane Road, Komatipoort, Skukuza 1350) — this is the ideal rest camp if you want to get away from the crowds and prefer a smaller, more intimate camp. It is perched on the banks of the Crocodile River and you’re fairly guaranteed to see lion. There is no […]
The Cape Verde Islands are a Portuguese-speaking archipelago located off the coast of West Africa (the nearest country being Senegal). The main islands are: Sal, Boa Vista, Santiago, São Vicente, Santo Antão, São Nicolau, Fogo, Maio, and Brava. There are also uninhabited islands within this archipelago, like Santa Lucia, Branca and Raso. These islands are […]
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SHOPPING As expected for this destination, shopping options are limited and do not include trendy, roomy, air-conditioned modern shopping malls (as found elsewhere). Instead, Zanzibar thrives on the sale of traditional merchandise (ranging from African garments, to fine wood carvings, art works, brassware and other souvenir-type goods). On that note, Stone Town is filled with […]
Zanzibar (a semi-autonomous part of the East African nation of Tanzania) consists of two large islands (Zanzibar — a.k.a. Unguja, and Pemba) along with a chain of smaller ones. It was a trading base for Middle East traders going as far back as the Persians (who reputedly built the first mosques in East Africa). By […]
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Serengeti National Park is a national park located in northwest Tanzania (to the west of the Mount Kilimanjaro region). The Park covers Tanzania’s Mara and Simiyu regions (an area of 14,750 sq, kilometers), and is known for the annual migration of over 1.5 million white-bearded wildebeest and 250,00 zebras, as well as numerous Nile Crocodiles […]
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The history and development of Kruger National Park (located in the northeast provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in South Africa, bordering with Mozambique) did not come along in a vacuum. Kruger Park was named after Paul Kruger, the President of Transvaal Republic in the late 1800s into 1902 (that country would later become part of […]
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