The Greater Makalali Private Game Reserve (GMPGR) has handed over a small herd of elephants to the Dinokeng Game Reserve outside Pretoria, in an effort to achieve the Gauteng Provincial Government’s aim of creating a Big Five game reserve close to Gauteng’s city centres. Dinokeng already has three of the Big Five, with buffalo to be introduced at a later stage.
A local tour company has introduced its ‘Walk with Lions’ tour in a nature reserve north of Pretoria. The itinerary includes tea or coffee on arrival, a 40-minute talk on lion behaviour, a 40-minute walk with the lions to the reserve’s dam, python display, feeding and interacting with the lion cubs and a light lunch.
CAMP Jabulani in Hoedspruit, Limpopo, has launched its ‘Team Tusker’ programme to cater for safari goers under the age of 12.The programme is structured to stimulate and entertain younger guests, thus allowing their parents to enjoy time on their own, particularly during night-time elephant safaris. Children under the age of 10 are allowed on early-morning elephant safaris if their parents accompany them.The activity menu covers spoor identification, tracking, camp and survival basics, orienteering, basic bush cooking, baking and Land Rover orientation.
Madikwe Collection are very proud to announce that Buffalo Ridge Safari Lodge been given Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa (FTTSA) accreditation. 1Time will be launching five flights per week between Johannesburg and Livingstone using a 130-seater MD87 aircraft.
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SAFARI & Adventure Co. has announced that Rocktail Bay Lodge, located in KZN’s Maputaland Coastal Forest Reserve, will be closed from April 30, with plans to increase the size of Rocktail Beach Camp under way. By July 1, a further five rooms will have been added. These will be suites that can also be used as family rooms.The camp has a dining room, bar, lounge with a wrap-around veranda and a pool. Activities include diving, snorkelling and other other beach adventures.
Last night we were excited to have a large Leopard toad in the garden around our offices. I grabbed my camera as i have not been priveleged to get this close to a leopard toad before. He/she was very calm and allowed me to get up close to shoot away with my EOS400. How do you know the sex of a toad or frog can anyone please tell me? Brent
