Around South Africa
Plant Abundance…who knew that weeds could be a food group.
For those of you who are wondering what "terroir" means, it is French for 'soil or land'.
As we were staying with Nikki when this...
Around Africa
Go African Adventures teams up with Travel and Things
A FIRST IN 2020!
Travel & Things will be teaming up with Sarah Dorey of Go African Adventures to bring readers this awesome Botswana self-drive...
Faces in the crowd.The people of Rwanda.
Hail, hail the gang's all here. Could this be the Kigali chapter of Hells Angels out on a Sunday ride? Not at all! It...
Around the World
Accommodation
Game sightings during a Bundox Safari Co. visit.
This will be the final 2024 post from Travel & Things.
Normal publishing will be resumed on 13th January 2025.
Stay safe and enjoy this time...
Field Guide Training
Cruises International
Celebrity X Reflection visits Mykonos
Like Santorini, tender boats were used to take the guests from the ship.
My wife being one of them.
I decided to stay on board for...
Wildlife
Out of the dust.
This is my final post before Christmas.
Please allow me the opportunity to share season greetings with those who celebrate at this time of year.
This...
A view to a kill. Umlani Bushcamp
As we passed a large herd of buffalo, this old dagga boy stood glaring at us as we stopped to allow them to cross...
Tau(lion) sightings while on Tau Game Lodge drives…
"It isn’t much good having anything exciting if you can’t share it with somebody".
Winnie the Pooh.
This is NOT Winnie the Pooh.
This is Silas the...
How do you eat an elephant? One piece at a time.
It seems that the heat in Madikwe has taken a toll on many species large and small.
When a guest on our game viewer said...
Tau Game Lodge. A seated safari experience
Gorillas in the mist? Not quite. Here it was wildebeest and zebra in the dust.
Our arrival at Tau Game Lodge was met with a...
Bundox Safari Co. An overview…
Travel & Things recently undertook a road trip to visit all the Bundox camps in the Lowveld.
Three camps were in the same reserve, Balule,...
Bundox River Lodge…elephants to the left of me.
Recently, Travel & Things undertook a Lowveld road trip that included 3 Sun Destinationsâ„¢ properties. Bundox River Lodge was the final Lodge on that...
Well spotted. Umkumbe Safari Lodge Riverside.
The first leopard sighting on any trip is always exciting. We found this male not too far from where we had been driving. Like...
Bundox River Lodge…Time to take flight?
Recently, Travel & Things undertook a Lowveld road trip that included 3 Sun Destinationsâ„¢ properties. Bundox River Lodge was the final Lodge on that...
Out of the darkness. A special sighting at Umkumbe Safari Lodge Riverside.
It was towards the end of an afternoon drive and we had stopped to admire the impending sunset.
The spectacular colours of an African sky...
Game drive sighting from Nyala Safari Lodge.
Recently, Travel & Things undertook a Lowveld road trip that included 3 Sun Destinationsâ„¢ properties. Nyala Safari Lodge was the second Lodge on that...
Guest Writers
Kruger and the complex history of conservation and dispossession by Don...
The Travel & Things guest writer for March is Dr Don Pinnock. But let him tell you about himself in his own words...
My name...