Africa Safari Blog

Week 4 (1st – 7th of March) 

Molweni Ndamkelekile EKAPA, yiveki yesine ndilapha e Jenman. Ndisebenza kakuhle noxa Ndinokubanda kancinci Nemo yezulu yakhona etshisayo kwiqondo elingu 35°C. Kodwa yindlele yayo leyo…

For all those who aren’t fluent in Xhosa:

Hello and welcome to my forth week here in Cape Town and with Jenman. I am still doing fine even if I have a little cold – what really sounds ridiculous considering an outside temperature of 35°C – but that’s the way it is…

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24 February 2010 will go down as a great day in our books. You will ask yourself “Why’s that? What’s so special about that particular day?”

Well, that’s the day on which we hosted our very first workshop right here at No 7 Lancaster Road. In conjunction with The Madagascar Consulate, Air Madagascar, Legacy Hotels and an awesome team we pulled off a hugely successful Madagascar workshop. No mean feat, as agents are constantly inundated with invitations to attend presentations, workshops, etc. etc…  and, we had an almost 100% turnout, something unheard of in the industry!
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Source: Go Magazine

The electricity at Harare International Airport is at half-phase. The flight from Johannesburg was only about a third full with mostly Zimbabwean passengers, their carry-on luggage bulging shopping bags from the rich shelves of the Republic.

Jenny Nobes is there to pick me up. She has invited me on a tour through the north of Zimbabwe – Matusadona, Chizarira and Hwange national parks. I am curious, not only to see these parks but also as to how we’re going to manage the trip.

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The Savuti Channel is flowing past Savuti Elephant Camp in Botswana again after 27 years of being ‘lost’. Covering over 100 km, it flows from the Linyanti River (fed from the Zibadianja Lagoon) through a gap in the Magwikhwe Sand Ridge, past Savute Elephant Camp. The channel is flowing towards its final destination, the Savuti Marsh!!! See the image – the dark green lines show the water flow…

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Week 3  (22nd – 28th of February 2010)

I have already been in Cape Town for an entire month, but time is running so fast, it feels as if it had only been one week since I arrived here…

On Tuesday we went to Mandela Park Township in Hout Bay to have dinner at “Dinner@Mandelas” – a little tavern run by locals.  On our way there we watched a beautiful Cape Town sunset! When we entered the tavern there were already some kids waiting to show us their dances… After a really great South African dinner the township’s choir performed some songs for us and then it was up to us – we has to show them that Germans can dance, too!! I don’t know if they were extremely impressed by our moves… but they had a great time dancing with us and we had an awesome time dancing with them.

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Last newsletter & blog we featured some questions and answers from our UK, US and SA Agents & Clients… This time Garth Jenman answers some more tough questions – specifically related to emergencies, air-lifts and medical treatment!

How would medical emergencies be handled? In the case of an emergency – would there be a helicopter? Would I be evacuated out of there as I don’t think that Zimbabwean hospitals would be great…? For emergencies and evacuations we recommend that our clients use MARS (Medical air rescue services)…

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Thursday 20th November 2008, Source: Woman and Home
Hazel Walker shares her emotional experience of taking part in the South Africa trek to raise funds for Breast Cancer Care

Imagine this – you’ve spent a week bonding with 37 total strangers, trekking over sand dunes and beaches, rainforest and veldt, hills and mountains. You’ve discovered South Africa in all its glory – whales leaping like dolphins in a slate grey ocean at Walkers Bay, penguins who ought, surely, to be skating on thin ice somewhere other than Betty’s Bay, and an ostrich in De Hoop national park who inspected your group with contemptuous curiosity.

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Week 2 (15th – 21st of February 2010)

Welcome to my second working week here with Jenman African Safaris in Cape Town. I would like to thank you all for your comments and wishes and I am really glad that you liked it.

You probably read Katja’s comment on my first week, for those who didn’t:

…Excited to read more about your stay here and don’t be shy! I am sure a lot of other people would really like to know how it is ‘behind’ the scenes at Jenman Safaris…

Since Katja is my boss I probably should fulfil her wish and tell you what it’s really like to work with Jenman Safaris…

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