Monthly Archives: April 2012

One of the Best Birding Spots

The Barberspan Bird Sanctuary is a huge 2000 ha body of water located between Delareyville and Sannieshof (about 3hrs drive from Johannesburg) and one of the largest waterfowl reserves in southern Africa.

It was one of the first wetlands in… Continue reading

World’s largest transfrontier park a reality

The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Park is now a reality. The world’s biggest conservation area, to be known as Kaza, spans five countries and cover an area of almost 444 000 square kilometres.

Parts of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe… Continue reading

The Beauty of the “Dragon Mountains”

The Drakensberg, Africa’s highest mountain range south of Kilimanjaro, contains the largest and most concentrated series of rock art paintings in Africa – making the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park a World Heritage site of both natural and cultural significance.

Both… Continue reading

Uniqueness of the Cape Floral Kingdom

Better known for being the home of  Table Mountain which guards the city of Cape Town, the Cape Floral Kingdom is the smallest, but richest plant kingdom in the world.

It is one of only six plant kingdoms… Continue reading

Nelson Mandela Archive Open to the Public

The life of Nelson Mandela is now freely accessible to the public, as his Digital Archive Project, containing thousands of documents, photographs and videos, is now live on the internet.

The aim of the project is to locate, document,… Continue reading