Travel tips
Travel tips, background stories and tales from Africa – by our guides and travel experts.
A trip into the countryside – the wine country at the Cape
One of my favourite routes in the Cape region leads me from Table Mountain down to the inviting bathing beaches of Kalk Bay and Muizenberg, continues along the coast on the R310, past Khayelitsha, the region's largest township, and finally ends in the midst of the country's most beautiful wine-growing areas.
Island dream Zanzibar
Zanzibar – even the name sounds dreamy! And who knows … perhaps Freddie Mercury was inspired by the beauty of the island when composing his songs "We Are the Champions" or "We Will Rock You".
Holiday in Africa
Hello, dear blog community, it is already February and finally time to wish you a wonderful new year! I hope your good resolutions for this year were not immediately put on ice beneath the ice crust of the Central European winter in the first few days.
Gorillas
King Kong was the film that taught me to fear gorillas … aggressive, destructive and bestial. No wonder, then, that these giant apes were not particularly close to my heart for a long time. That only changed with the biographical film "Gorillas in the Mist", released in 1988.
Of souvenirs and species protection
When someone goes on a trip, souvenirs fan the flames of the urge to shop. They buy with passion until at some point customs makes them suffer … How often am I asked as a guide whether you may take this or that out of the country at all, or import it into Germany, Austria or Switzerland.
Holiday on a guest farm in Namibia
Anyone who wants to get to know not only the landscape and nature but also life in Namibia should definitely spend a few nights on a guest farm. Compared with lodges, guest farms are somewhat simpler but smaller and more personal. To give you an impression, we would like to introduce Onduruquea Guest Farm…
4x4 tours in Namibia and Botswana
Hello dear Africa enthusiasts, or those who are about to become one: Southern Africa is home to quite a few beautiful places that are worth visiting. Fortunately, for most of these places the times when getting there still had the character of an expedition are over.