Cape Wine Festivals Wherever you look during the grape harvest season (late January to April) there is a harvest festival on. More and more wine estates and wine routes jostle for attention during the time of the bounty of the vineyards, and there is a real sense of harvest time as an adventure to remember. …
Meet Lema Peter, a Kilimanjaro Guide who has reached the “Roof of Africa” more than 100 times. Lema grew up at the foot of Mount Meru with never a thought of climbing up Tanzania’s second highest peak. His clan, part of the Meru tribe, believed that God resided up there. If anyone disturbed God, misfortune …
The first home brewed country tourism authority run URL shortener http://mzan.si was launched just over a day ago and it is already getting amazing responses – In 24 hours, the tool has generated 289 shortened URLs which represent 227 mark URLs. Mzan.si links have already been clicked on all over the world, a total of …
I love ostriches and luckily, when you’re on safari, you won’t have much difficulty seeing them. Wild ostriches live throughout Africa, mostly in the drier areas and at low elevations. There are 4 living sub-species and they all inhabit different parts of the continent. The ostrich is the world’s largest bird and it won’t surprise …
Call for volunteers Many of you must be familiar with the television series Extreme Makeover – Home Edition, where families who are down and out, who have faced hardships in life or are desperately in extremity of a better and sometimes safer living space are surprised by a team who rebuilds, extends, upgrades and improves …