Our Cape Town to Victoria Falls Grand Explorer 21 day safari is one of our most sought after itineraries. It starts in the most beautiful city in Africa, Cape Town. Here we spend a full day exploring the highlights of this magnificent city. On this particular tour we start off early from our guest house in the suburb of Sea Point...

Snakes.... Going on a safari to Africa, is something that is on most people's Bucket List. But very often, people have a fear of seeing snakes or walking into snakes, and this sometimes persuades them not to go on safari. Carina, one of our Sunway guides, says "My answer is that you will hardly see them and since they are also afraid of humans, they will pick up the vibrations of you walking close to them and they will move away before you are even aware that they were there. This is true and not just a story to keep everyone calm."

We often ask our guides to share interesting things that happen on tour, to give everyone a glimpse into the happenings on safari. Adolf Venter recently sent in this 'tale from the trail'.... "We were on a 17 day tour from Johannesburg to Cape Town, at the start of the rainy season. The whole of Southern Africa had been in the grip of a severe drought and the rain had been looked forward to with a great sense of anticpation...desperation. The tour left Johannesburg and headed out for the Kruger National Park, the first of many iconic highlights on the tour. So far, 2 days of game driving had passed when we came across a small waterhole (more like mud hole). These "mud holes"  are usually made by the bigger animals as they wallow in the mud - each "wallowing" takes more mud away, and the hole gets bigger and bigger! 

 
On this day, we found such a hole occupied by a few hippos relaxing (like sardines in a can) in this small pool filled with water. We wondered why these hippo were in such small pool and so far away from any big water source...

The Okavango Delta is by far the most famous highlight when visiting Botswana. It is a very large inland swamp area, which is formed when the Okavango River feeds into the endorheic basin of the Kalahari (endorheic is a word taken from Ancient Greek: ἔνδον, éndon, "within" and means "to flow"). It simply is a closed drainage basin that retains water and allows no outflow to rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent and/or seasonal. All the water reaching the delta is eventually evaporated throughout the hot summer months and dry winters of Botswana. It was officially declared as one of Africa's Seven Natural Wonders in 2013. Recently, one of our new guides, Robyn Maris accompanied our Zimbabwe and Botswana Game Tracker safari into the Okavango Delta...