Featured Destinations

Malawi’s first permanently settled people were Bantu from the north, who formed villages in 1500 along the central section of the lake and westwards into what is now Zambia. By 1600 these people were trading with the Portuguese and by the 1700s their tribal cohesions seemed to be disintegrating.

Bushmen, Damara and Namaqua people have lived in Namibia since early times with significant Bantu incursions occurring from 1300 AD onwards. The first Europeans to set foot on Africa’s south-west coast were Portuguese and included Bartolomeu Dias, but they did not put down any roots. Just crosses.

Zanzibar is an archipelago consisting of two main Islands of Unguja (commonly referred to as Zanzibar Island), Pemba and about 51 other surrounding small islets....

Good Neighbours

The Sociable Weaver Bird (Philetairus socius) is a friendly little fellow as the name would suggest. He lives in the long nests that hang from trees and telegraph poles the length and breadth of the Kgalagadi. The nests are the largest built by any bird and some can house over a hundred pairs. The outer chambers provide cool shade in the day and there is warmth at the centre at night. A pair can produce four broods in a breeding cycle. One has been recorded as producing nine broods in a cycle in response to predatory attacks. By unsociable weavers, maybe?