“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” His meeting with H. M. Stanley nearly 150 years ago on the shores of Lake Tanganyika gave rise to the now-famous quotation. Today we celebrate the Scottish medical missionary and African transcontinental explorer David Livingstone on the … Continue reading →

While I was away visiting Africa this past December, friends back home kindly picked up a 20 lb box of late fall apples from our local farm for me.  It was waiting, full of possibilities when I returned home.  Happily … Continue reading →

I was recently very lucky to spend a few days at Jack’s Camp in the Magadakadi Pans area of the Kalahari desert in Botswana.  I left with a new appreciation for silence, wide-open spaces, the ‘small stuff’ and their cooking! … Continue reading →

I can’t resist buying cookbooks when visiting Africa (or any other chance I get).   On my most recent visit to Southern Africa, I picked up ‘Elephant in the Kitchen‘, a fun book with recipes by Craig Higgins, written by … Continue reading →

Here’s a ‘problem’ we hope to encounter on our visit to Botswana’s Selinda Camp later this week! We had an emergency at Selinda Camp last month in the form of a road block created by our wild dog pack, the … Continue reading →

As we mentioned in earlier postings, we’ll be in southern Africa this December, and that includes three sublime days at Botswana’s Selinda Camp.  We’re excited as can be and are marking the time until we depart by reading game reports. … Continue reading →

8-Day Green Season Safari Special Join us for this luxury safari to Botswana’s famed Okavango Delta, Chobe National Park and Zambia’s Victoria Falls, offered during Southern Africa’s “green season”—the warmer and wetter months of November-March. The Okavango Delta, the largest … Continue reading →

We are excited to announce the opening of the much-loved DumaTau Camp on a new site on the banks of the Linyanti River. One of our most popular camps for over 15 years, DumaTau has been given a new lease … Continue reading →

Our friends at Botswana’s Duba Plains Camp had a rather exciting morning last week.  It started early in the morning when the Tsaro lion pride crossed the Duba Plains bridge from the south and moved very quickly towards the airstrip … Continue reading →

We are excited to share with you that the brand new Selinda Explorers Camp, opens August 15, 2012 in Botswana’s Selinda Reserve. With just four tents Selinda Explorers Camp, located on the banks of the Selinda Spillway, will be a new concept … Continue reading →