Safaris
Angus has combined his experience as a seasoned photojournalist, broadcaster and TV producer with that of a lifelong traveller and private guide / safari designer.
Angus has played a part in covering stories and events that fit snugly into the past three decades of the sub-continent’s backpack; war zones, Nelson Mandela’s release and South Africa’s steps into democracy, Rwanda’s genocide, resurrection and gorillas, migrations, conservation miracles, the untold stories of the Cradles of Humankind and Human Culture and hundreds of luxury lodge reviews.
Added to the first and only multimedia iBook on the Rhino saga in 2013, Angus has visited most national parks and reserves of significance in the sub-continent, and driven a vast chunk of South Africa’s roads, gathering stories and experience along the way.
That experience goes into Angus' safari designs, which are then fulfilled by long-trusted logistics partners.
Safaris are available as both guided and unguided.
There’s nothing quite like a walking safari in a big game area to get the senses going. That delicious tension and awareness of what you could come across when walking in wilderness opens up the senses, with sight, hearing and feeling all working together to fully appreciate what is colloquially known as ‘the bush’. From…
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This safari has been created with the intention of subtly sharing the various elements of a safari, not always obvious when guests maybe can’t wait to see their first lion, elephant…or racquet-tailed roller (one of the birding specials in the park’s Pafuri sector)! The Kruger National Park, clichés aside, is about so much more. We…
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Rwanda is regarded by many as the most remarkable story in Africa. Angus was involved in covering elements of the genocide, before following and reporting on the country’s resurrection. He has watched the gorilla experience evolve in Volcanoes National Park and has been witness to magnificent national parks like Akagera and Nyungwe being re-opened and…
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Angus draws on his first visit to Zimbabwe, as a schoolboy with family in 1977, when he became pen-pals with a young Zimbabwean named Zwanai. He returned as a journalist many years later, as a travel writer sharing the best of Zimbabwe while exposing poaching and other shenanigans. Angus lost track of Zwanai, but for…
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As a child Angus read a book called ‘Game Ranger on Horseback’, written by Nick Steele, one of KwaZulu-Natal’s legendary rangers and conservationists. He loved horse-riding, and in their early family holidays spent in the Drakensberg mountains and game reserves of what is today known as KwaZulu-Natal province, he says he would imagine he was a…
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Having first visited Mozambique as a backpacker with university friends in the early 90s, when the civil war was still on, Angus went on to cover the reopening of Maputo’s iconic Polana Hotel, before producing television stories on, amongst other topics, the now-famed resurrection of Gorongosa National Park. He says that while Gorongosa redefines the…
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The discovery of a 20 000 year-old fossilized fish skeleton in a southern Cape cave shook up the world of paleontology. Professors attached to universities in Norway and Arizona leading digs along the craggy stretch of coastline dubbed the Cradle of Human Culture suggested that perhaps it was the consumption of fish – a mussel-cracker,…
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