Traveling beyond the limits of imagination with Superb Africa Safaris

Travel westward from Victoria Falls, into Botswana and beyond, gliding in a mokoro through the waters of Caprivi Strip, with its abundant game and birdlife. Enjoy boat cruises and fish for tiger fish at the confluence of the Zambezi and Chobe Rivers. Heading south from here, deep into Namibia, discover large herds of wildebeest, zebra, springbok and oryx on the move through Etosha Pan National Park, where one waterhole provides game viewing for many hours.

Search for noisy colonies of playful Cape Cross seals and adventure into the dunes, canyons and jagged mountain peaks of Skeleton Coast, with its many shipwrecks. Namibia is a vast and beautiful country.

The rugged tranquility and breathtaking mountain landscapes of Kaokoland, with its Himba settments and lush oases, enchant all travellers who venture here. Unique desert-adapted wildlife, including elephant and the last free-ranging black rhino on earth, inhabit the desert wilderness of Damaraland. Race down the dunes on a quad bike of sandboard outside Swakopmund, the windswept fishing village of Luderitz further south boasts ornate German architecture in a beautiful but stark desert landscape. Deeper in the reaches of the desert, marvel at spectacular Fish River Canyon, the second largest in the world.

Far from the coastal sand dunes, in the heart of Namibia, the rugged mountains of Namib-NaukluftPark astound and amaze with plummeting ravines, rock pools and desert adapted wildlife.

Soar above the dunes as Sossusvlei, said to be the world’s highest, in a hot air balloon or explore the carved rock walls of the Sesriem Canyon.

Namibia’s Wilderness Must See for Adventure Travellers:

Explore the Namib Desert, which is the world’s oldest at 80 million years.

Discover the wilderness paradises of Etosha National Park, Waterberg Plateau National Park, Fish River Canyon and the Namib-Naukluft National Park.

Climb the sand dunes at Sossusvlei, among the highest in the world.

Cross two spectacular deserts – the Kalahari and the Namib – each with distinctive wildlife scenery.

Encounter diverse cultures, from San (bushmen), Portuguese and German influences to the Himba people still living their age-old traditions.

Gaze at a billion stars in the clear desert skies over the Namib and Damaraland.

Go birding on the banks of the Kavango and Kunene Rivers.

 
Create your own holiday in this excellent self drive destination with great roads, charming guest houses and scenery that simply takes your breath away.

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Visiting the place of gold and onwards to the land of the rising sun with Superb Africa Safaris

Gauteng & Mpumalanga

The central hub for many journeys around South Africa is Johannesburg, in Gauteng province, meaning “place of gold.” Travellers discover its origins as a mining town by venturing into the depths of gold mine shaft or explore its history at the Apartheid Museum and Constitution Hill. A vibrant and cosmopolitan city, Johannesburg is the perfect stop for shopping between safaris, offering everything from world class boutiques to atmospheric curio markets.

Known as the “Jacaranda City,” the state capital of Pretoria, with its streets lined with purple blossoming trees each November, offers a gentler and slower pace. Wander through stately old buildings and fascinating museums, including the Transvaal Museum, home of Mrs. Ples, the ancient fossil discovered at the Cradle of Humankind.

While KwaZulu-Natal is a lush, sub-tropical paradise, Mpumalanga is a classic safari country-craggy and covered with shrubby savanna. The province is home to the world-renowned Kruger National Park, the flagship of South Africa’s national parks. This two million hectare reserve shares unfenced borders with private concessions alongside the park, allowing the free movement of wildlife along ancient  migration corridors.

Guests visiting these exclusive reserves experience high quality game viewing in an intimate atmosphere. Numbers of vehicles are limited at a sighting and sensitive off road driving in an open 4x4 safari vehicles is allowed, as are exciting night safaris. Expert trackers and rangers share their knowledge and enhance the wildlife experience.

Apart from the wildlife, Mpumalanga is scattered with small country towns surrounded by breathtaking mountain scenery. Visitors can pan for gold in the old mining town of Pilgrim’s Rest, or admire views from Blyde River Canyon, Bourke’s Luck Potholes and God’s Window that will surely take your breath away. 

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Sparring partners

The zebra’s name comes from the Portuguese who first described this “wild ass” in Zaire 500 years ago. No two zebra stripes are alike. The colouring is not actually meant to be a camouflage, although it does serve to confuse predators, who find it difficult to single out one animal from the mass of stripes. In the heat of the day a zebra will stand, like a springbok, rump to the sun to reduce exposure. 

Zebras’ habit of remaining close to wildebeests benefits both animals, as the zebras’ sense of smell, sight and hearing is an early warning system against predators, while the carnivores’ preference for wildebeests is an inverted safety valve for the zebra.

Although zebra stallions, patrolling the perimeter of family herds and thus exposing themselves to the greatest danger, are very protective when predators are near, they are capable of spectacular infighting when it comes to dominance, ego and the opposite sex.

Stallions can clash in spectacular displays of flailing hooves as they rear, wrestle, kick and lunge at each other with barred teeth and slashing hind and forelegs. They will even drop to the sand on their forelegs and spar ferociously, raking each other’s neck with slavering jaws.

  

As for the cheetah, bathed in the warm colours of late afternoon, a San Bushman legend tells of a much more dignified characteristic. There was a race the story goes, to discover which was the fastest animal on earth, the cheetah or the tsessebe of the grasslands. As they ran, the speedy antelope was just inching ahead when it tripped and fell. The cheetah stopped to help and as a reward for this kindly gesture, God granted the cheetah the right to be the fastest creature in the desert. 

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Rock of ages with Superb Africa Safaris

By the rivers of ZHOU, the word of the Shona people for elephant, the ramparts of Chilojo have for centuries gazed down at the great Gonarezhou wilderness in the southeastern corner of Zimbabwe. The meeting place of the Runde and Save rivers, it has ever since slaving days, been the free-fire zone of elephant poachers. It has also witnessed the decimation of lofty ironwood trees I an attempt to hold the tsetse fly at bay, the culling of buffalo to protect man’s cattle, gun running, slavery and ivory wars. Every adventurer of the lowveld – Shangaan, Swahili, Portuguese, English and Rhodesian – has had a crack at Gonarezhou.

If you follow the Limpopo River west from Gonarezhou to a point where the Shashi River joins it, then head north, you will soon come to the Matobo hills. Visionary imperialist Cecil John Rhodes chose this sublime eyrie as his burial place. Surrounded by massive natural cannonballs, it overlooks a land that seems to have been pulverized by giant blows into a thousand tumbled hills. Great spaces washed by the rain and wind and sun.

In the summer rains, if Mwari God is bountiful, water courses down these massive granite whalebacks in a hundred glistening streams like the white stripes of kudu as it pauses among dripping msasa trees. 

Seventy per cent of Zimbabwe’s 13 million people still live and work as small farmers and herdsmen, and for nearly a thousand years they have also mastered the art of shaving off or fire cracking the surfaces of dwalas to produce building blocks. This was how the Great Zimbabwe’s huge stone structures were made and the same process has allowed modern day artists in the country to carve exquisite mythological sculptures, recognized as among the most sophisticated in the world.

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Mosi oa Tunya, the smoke that thunders

No one can imagine the beauty of the view from anything witnessed in England. It had never been seen before by European eyes; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.