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Croatia Trophy 2010 Stage 7

CT2010 Stage 7 - The mother of all slopes, Marcel calls it Hamburger Hill. A treacherous challenge claiming many a car. Read the rest of this entry »

A Smoker’s lament in a Zero-tolerant world

Penelope Sachs on New York, "scanning the streets for an outdoor café--of course to smoke but also to sit down and absorb the street behaviour of this iconic city ..." Read the rest of this entry »

Bushbabies Monkey Sanctuary

André Craye talks about the Bushbabies monkey sanctuary in Magaliesberg, South Africa (e.g. history, goals, visitors centre). Read the rest of this entry »

Teaching English at Bulungula

Penelope Sachs went to teach English to the locals of a remote village in the former Transkei, "I was 54 and a tad old I thought to be having a mid-life crisis ..." Read the rest of this entry »

Wildlife – Rhino Facts

Knowing the difference between the two rhinocerous species in Africa could save your life if you are faced with either of these magnificent animals. Read this and other rhino facts ... Read the rest of this entry »

Wildlife – Great White Sharks

Great White Sharks are the ocean's top predator and magnificent fish. They only start bearing young when they reach about 4 metres in length, which could take from 12 to 20 years. Read more great white shark facts. Read the rest of this entry »

Wildlife – African Elephants

The African Elephant is the largest land mammal, with mature bulls reaching a record weight of 7 tons (15 400 lbs.). Elephant cows average two and a half metres tall and three tons. Read the rest of this entry »

Wildlife – African Lions

The lion is the epitome of a carnivore. Records show that lion have taken rabbits, tortoises, porcupines, pangolins, aardvarks, birds, warthog, bushpig and crocodiles. Read the rest of this entry »

Wildlife – The Little Five

The "Big 5" is well-known, but what of the "Little 5"? Leopard Tortoise, Rhinoceros Beetle, Ant Lion, Buffalo Weaver and Elephant Shrew ... read facts about this wildlife. Read the rest of this entry »

Wildlife – Leopard Facts

A leopard female spends roughly half her time with the cubs and half away, hunting and feeding. Thus from the beginning the cubs become adapted to long periods of fasting interrupted by periods of gorging themselves. Read more leopard facts ... Read the rest of this entry »

Kawaza Basic School and Reforest Nsefu in Zambia

The Kawaza School Fund is a private fund started by Robin Pope Safaris in 1988 to assist in improvements at Kawaza Basic School, one of the local schools in the Nsefu Chiefdom. They sent us this article in the beginning of January 2008.

Huge improvements have been made at Kawaza since this time and the school is almost unrecognizable from the first photos that were taken. Over the past 5 years other schools have been added to the list of schools that Kawaza School Fund assists. Read the rest of this entry »

Wildlife – Buffalo Facts

Buffaloes are gregarious herbivores that gather into herds that may range from a few individuals to over 3000 animals. Known for turning on lions who've tried to predate a calf and sent the lion fleeing. Read interesting buffalo facts. Read the rest of this entry »

African Elephant Folklore and Myths

A great deal of mythical folklore surrounds these magnificent giants of the bush.

A few of these legends are worthy of being recounted, however the origin of these myths have become quite unclear over the years, and no specific tribe of people can be directly credited with them.

The most likely source though, would appear to be the Shona, a tribe ancestrally inhabiting the northern regions of Southern Africa. Read the rest of this entry »

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