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Epupa Falls on border of Namibia and Angola
From Puros, where I photographed the desert elephants, I drove north to the tiny settlement of Orupembe, and from there to Marble Campsite, where I spent a night (check out on Google Maps here). The next day I travelled east to the main town of Opuwo and then north to Epupa Falls,
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Desert Elephants of Namibia
My next Year in the Wild 2013-14 starts in July this year, and once again I will focus on most of South Africa’s most special protected areas, as well as the transfrontier parks on the borders of the country. I’ve been working hard at planning this trip and after all the travelling last year, I wanted to escape "work" for a bit, and go somewhere far, far away!
So for the past three weeks, I have been travelling through north-west Namibia, exploring this remote desert landscape. My goal was
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Karoo Journey – Stars, stars and more stars at Anysberg
Astronomers estimate that there are about 300 billion stars in the Milky Way. But because of light pollution, most city-dwellers can see only a few hundred of them. Head to Anysberg Nature Reserve, however, and it’s as if every single star in our galaxy is within grasp.
Situated in the Western Cape about 80kms north-east of Montagu and about 100kms south-west of Laingsburg, the
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Karoo Journey – Night time in Camdeboo National Park
My next stop on my journey for Wild Magazine through the Karoo in the middle of a South African summer was Camdeboo National Park. This little protected area – whose name means “valley of green” in the ancient Khoe language - surrounds the historical town of Graaff-Reinet, a place that has more national monuments than any other in the country – remarkable for such a
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Karoo road trip – Mountain Zebra National Park
The second protected area on my Karoo road trip was Mountain Zebra National Park in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. It’s one of my favourite. It’s small – only about 280 square kilometres, but its crammed with beautiful rolling hills covered in grass, and the high plateau of the Bankberg mountains.
The conservation of the South African endemic Cape Mountain Zebra is a remarkable success story.
By the late 1800s,
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Karoo in January? And lions!
I’ve recently returned from the Karoo region of South Africa, where I was researching and photographing an article for Wild Magazine. My short road trip took me to Karoo National Park, Mountain Zebra National Park, Read more »
