You could be a honeymoon couple, a thrill-seeker, a retired professor or a bustling young family – believe us, Botswana is a perfect holiday destination for those wanting a soft landing into Africa with a huge dose of nature. Botswana is one of the most sparsely populated countries in Africa, as 44% of it is made up of National Parks, an incredible statistic. An excellent country of choice taking on board the current pandemic. Fewer people mean less chance of getting infected. The south and east consist of the striking [...]

While we all sit at home, waiting to be fully vaccinated and countries to be given the green light, now’s the perfect opportunity to put those Marie Kondo organizing tips to good use. If you don’t know who Marie Kondo is, you haven’t been watching enough Netflix OR doing enough tidying at home in lockdown! Take a trip down memory lane and get those photos into the 21st Century where you can actually see & appreciate them, instead of being stuck on your phone, just waiting to be lost! Use [...]

  The joy of Africa is its utter diversity in each country; Striking landscapes, natural wonders, and untouched wilderness jostle for attention with azure blue seas, awe-inspiring mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests. While travel is slowly starting to return, let’s tickle your mind with places to book for later in 2021 and beyond. The Namib Desert, Namibia Stark landscapes including burnt red sand, petrified trees, shy desert animals, and billowing dunes are some of the stars of the show in the Desert. The advantage is of course that people [...]

  Huddled between the Balkans and central Europe, Croatia is a country rich in history and natural wonders from limestone caves, endless forests to scenic pebble beaches. The country's most famous waters are found inland at the Plitvice Lakes National Park, a system of waterfalls, caves, and 16 terraced lakes that cover the entire blue-green color spectrum. The Adriatic Sea coast is truly spectacular, dotted with more than 1,000 islands surrounded by impossibly clear water just inviting gone to jump in and swim. Here are 5 more reasons to visit this exquisite jewel [...]

  This year, we’ve started to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccinations are in progress and people are desperate to get out and about and travel. But for now, we have to sit tight. Let these novels transport you to another world – let the words invoke strong senses within you. Speaking of senses, pubmed.gov reported that neuroscientists tracking the brain activity of patients who read words like “cinnamon” and “jasmine” found that the very act of reading those words caused the part of the brain [...]

Surrounded by a long, sometimes kind, often rugged, but always beautiful coastline, is a vast land, an area of 4 262 398 km2.  Here, the oldest desert in the world, water wonderlands, wide grasslands, and ancient mountains await the traveller. Choosing what to see and experience first in South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini (Swaziland), Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, and Namibia can be difficult. Hopefully, our bucket lists will help. Cape Winelands – South Africa The dramatic, plunging escarpments surrounding the fertile Cape Winelands, shelter centuries old, iconic Cape Dutch homesteads dotted [...]