http://africasafariblog.com Read all about African Safaris with our Jenman Safaris Blog! Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:02:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On our trip through Namibia we stayed at Hammerstein Lodge. It is not far from the biggest sand dunes in the world – Sossusvlei which is one of the main highlights in Namibia. What makes Hammerstein so special? Hammerstein has lots of furry friends that stay on the property… Who stays on ... http://africasafariblog.com/?p=1935 Rhinos are extremely feared animals and for that reason they are on the Big 5 list! The Big 5 comprises of the 5 most dangerous and magnificent African animals to hunt… Therefore even though rhinos are poached, they are also feared and are extremely aggressive towards humans… which is what ... http://africasafariblog.com/?p=1751 City couple’s book on exploring the Cape Peninsula’s mountain chain is memorable, writes VIVIEN HORLER WHEN you want to get up high in cities like London, Paris, New York or Sydney, you have to climb up some man-made structure like the London Eye or Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building or ... http://africasafariblog.com/?p=1892 Tiara Walters chats to a documentarian who took a dip on the wild side to get to understand the Nile crocodile ENVIRONMENTAL documentarian Roger Horrocks has a beef with airbags. „The modern world has sanitised our lives,“ he yawps as we manoeuvre our way through De Waal Drive’s Saturday-afternoon traffic towards ... http://africasafariblog.com/?p=1863 IT’S very late. The Milky Way cuts a brilliant swathe through a dark sky ablaze with stars. Hippos are on the move chortling, swishing, splashing round the camp. A Pel’s fishing owl – one of the world’s most sought-after birds – screeches from a low branch, its call like that ... http://africasafariblog.com/?p=1839 We spotted these two lions on the road in Kruger National Park. They were in the process of mating. With lions this can be quite the operation… Female lions need to mate every 15 or 20 minutes to ovulate, this is called induced ovulation. They do this for 3 - ... http://africasafariblog.com/?p=1821 Only when my plane was about to touch down in Frankfurt did I finally realise that my time in South Africa was over...  Since then it has been two weeks… I’ve almost settled down in Germany again (even if I still walk on the “wrong”, left side of the pavement). ... http://africasafariblog.com/?p=1741 Rhiannon Batten enjoys the panoramic vistas and the hospitality of the people of this ancient land HAVING spent a sticky afternoon winding our way behind donkeys laden with luggage through rocky fields and green pastures, our small group reached the village of Mequat Mariam just as the sun brushed the horizon. ... http://africasafariblog.com/?p=1735