Lodge Review: Zimbabwe’s Ingwe Camp, Mana Pools

By Angus Begg / September 7, 2025

Today’s lodge review is an 80 minute flight from Harare, Zimbabwe, to the first of Machaba Safaris’ twin Mana Pools offerings – the inland Ingwe Camp, and River Camp. The latter is situated in what is regarded by many locals as one of the best locations on the river.    Ingwe Camp is 40 minutes…

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Why Choose Lodge A over Lodge B?

By Angus Begg / August 25, 2025

A lodge is a lodge is a lodge? Not exactly, but in the high-end space, it’s close…

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The Thin Green Line – World Ranger Day

By Angus Begg / July 31, 2025

‘It’s rangers in the service of national parks who are most at risk…’

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A New Safari Frontier

By Angus Begg / July 5, 2025

There’s a new safari frontier in town, stirring in the sands of that place known by most as Namibia’s Caprivi Strip. However context is everything, so let me take you back a bit. Named after governor Count Leo von Caprivi , who ruled the then German colony in the late 19th century, it remains the…

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Writing for Travel Media

By Angus Begg / March 18, 2025

The writing came first. I loved writing essays at school, anything to do with general knowledge, an interest that gradually morphed into the passion for wildlife and conservation. It takes years to make the right connections in the travel media industry. Key is to identify the right publications for me, those that speak to my…

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What is Luxury

By Angus Begg / March 14, 2025

In creating my website, just published, with a few tweaks happening at the back-end, I had the occasion to look back through a very large archive. This task ended up dovetailing with a private Namibia-Cape Town safari that I was designing for clients disembarking from a rather exclusive ship doubling up as a residence-at-sea. One…

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Lesotho & Eswatini.

By reddot / March 11, 2025

Creations of crazy colonial days, one is home to extremes like the highest pub in Africa, the highest waterfall below the equator, with trout fishing, a fine lager and blanketed Basutho goat-herders in-between. Eswatini owns its own rich culture, a controversial monarchy and a couple notable game reserves. Both are family friendly, and compelling add-ons…

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Namibia.

By reddot / March 11, 2025

It’s hard to imagine a destination quite like this. Offering moon landscapes, whale-skeletons, towering sand dunes, iconic cultures and desert-adapted rhino, elephant and lions.

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Kenya’s Masai Mara, Tsavo, Chyulu Hills, Samburu and the Laikipia plateau.

By Angus Begg / March 11, 2025

With the story of Naivasha’s Happy Valley, they roll off the savanna. Maybe you wish to combine your safari with Lamu island, the gorillas of Bwindi or Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls. Let’s plan your trip together.

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Safari: Uganda 9-Day Primate and Wildlife

By reddot / March 1, 2025
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