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
Tau Game Lodge…It takes a pride to serve a king.
Time for a return visit to one of our favourite Madikwe lodges, Tau Game Lodge, situated on the far Northern border of the reserve.
As...
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
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...
Lion around.
In the realm of big cats, where strength and courage abound, lions have earned the illustrious title of the "king of beasts." It might...
Prey tell.
More often than not, trips in a game reserve are spent looking for apex predators with teeth and claws, announcing their presence with mighty...
Leopards from my archives.
Although many guests, when out on game drives tend to look into trees for leopards, this is how they are usually first seen.
Leopards can...
Water water everywhere. The Last Word Madikwe Bush House.
Look, I am practicing to be a water feature.
This young elephant seems to think that a career change was required.
So, there it stood at...
Elephants: The Ultimate Matriarchy. Tau Game Lodge, Madikwe.
With whispers of untamed hope, an African sunrise paints the sky in shades of gold, heralding a new day. A fresh canvas on which...
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...