Namibia on my mind…
I’ve officially got Namibia on the mind these days. Having spent my adult life traipsing through Africa on more adventures than I can count, chalking up experiences like sitting in a village with the Mursi people in Ethiopia’s incredibly remote South Omo Valley and trekking through the dense, humid forest on the shores of Lake [...]

Making your footprint REALLY count
(This article is written by Neil Jacobsohn, a South African-based freelance journalist and business consultant, who recently traveled with Conservancy Safaris in Namibia. For more information please visit www.neiljacobsohn.com) “MAKE your footprint count!” Yeah, yeah, the concept of eco-this or eco-that is rapidly becoming a cliché, what with pseudo eco-lodges, eco-tours and eco-estates springing up [...]

lthough we are st...
lthough we are starting to see glimmers of hope that the recession is shaping up, Americans have changed the way they look at spending, perhaps permanently. People are still demanding value in everything they do and travel is no exception. One way to stretch the dollar in traveling, especially to Africa, is to visit during [...]

Zimbabwe. The Next Emerging Hotspot in Africa?
It is commonly understood in the African safari industry that the safari as we know it was started in Kenya, and reinvented (some will say “perfected!”) in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe was for many years widely recognized as having the best guides, the best lodges and some of Africa’s best wildlife. This was all of course before [...]

Sustainable Tourism Development in Mozambique
For nearly forty years Mozambique suffered at the hands of both colonial and indigenous governments. By the 1990’s, years of war and drought left Mozambique one of the poorest, least educated countries in the world. Much of today’s workforce in Mozambique grew up knowing nothing but war, have had little or no formal education and [...]