by Davina Bicker - Adventure World Sales Executive. Visiting local villages and schools along with a cooking dinner under a huge starry sky were just a few of the highlights of my Acacia African Overland Trip which started in beautiful Zanzibar and finished in Johannesburg. It is a great way to meet new people and […]
So your trip is paid for, after weeks or months of planning, and you’re thinking all that’s left is to cram your entire wardrobe and kitchen sink into your suitcase or back pack.
Make sure your passport has enough pages and validity (more then 6 months) to last your entire trip.
A little planning is good. […]
Leaving South Luangwa National Park behind we fly back to Johannesburg, but we have time for one more African experience before heading home. Our half day Soweto tour was very interesting and our guide was really good. The tour focuses a lot on the student uprising that took place in Soweto and we spent a […]
We flew from Livingstone to Mfuwe via Lusaka, where we were met by our guide from Mfuwe Lodge and transferred for one hour to the lodge. The drive was really interesting as it travels through a number of villages, so there is lots going on and lots of people out walking along the road. On […]
Our first sleep in of the trip! While having breakfast on the deck of the restaurant we had their herd of zebras walking past so made for a pretty unusual breakfast!
We got picked up at 9.30am for our helicopter flight over the falls, it was a great experience and a fantastic way to get a […]
Up early this morning to go on a lion walk, picked up at 6.30am for the 20 minute drive to Thorntree Lodge. We walked for around an hour with two 11 month old cubs. It was great to watch them fighting and playing with each other. They were very playful and spent the whole time […]
We had to leave at 9.30am so didn’t have the chance to do a full game drive, however Desert & Delta arranged for us to go out with our guide again and then be met by someone else to transfer us to the airstrip. So off we headed back to the kill. We spotted the […]
Out and about today, we saw steenbok, impala and the same four lions as yesterday. We got a call on the radio and our guide Gee turned the vehicle around and headed off at great speed, when I asked him what it was he replied ‘Impala’ funny man. It turned out to be something I […]
We headed back to Palm Island again this morning for another walk and what a walk it turned out to be. Near the end of the walk we went back to a buffalo carcass we had seen the day before to hear our guide exclaim ‘Quick follow me there’s a lioness there!’ With the heart […]
The first of our very early mornings in Africa. We had taken a travel alarm clock with us but never used it, as were woken every morning by our guide, will leave that at home next time. After a yummy breakfast we were off for a 30 minute speedboat ride to Palm Island for a […]