Travel Africa

The only international magazine dedicated to exploring Africa's diverse attractions, national parks, wildlife, culture and history. Travel Africa draws on some of the world's top photographers, writers and experts to create an inspiring and practical resource for anyone interested in the world's most exciting continent.

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AFRICA IN FOCUS

My beautiful home • A place to share your experiences

THE BIRDER’S GUIDE TO AFRICA • A selection of recent releases for Afrophiles

I Didn’t Come to Africa for a Normal Life

THE LAST LIONS OF AFRICA: STORIES FROM THE FRONTLINE IN THE BATTLE TO SAVE A SPECIES

MAMMALS OF ETHIOPIA, ERITREA, DJIBOUTI AND SOMALIA

Last Survivor

TOUBAB TALES

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MATOBO HILLS

SNAKE IN THE GRASS

KARIBA: LEGACY OF A VISION

Keeping your distance • How close is too close on a walking safari?

LIFE OR DEATH • Pam Keeble visited the Maasai Mara in January. She wasn’t expecting to witness a river crossing, let alone one quite like this

Family scrap • Don Matlock recounts a remarkable tussle between a lion father and son

A DOGGED ESCAPE • Louis Taljaard watches a puku's dramatic getaway, on safari at Bilimungwe Bushcamp in South Luangwa NP

face to face with a poacher • On the lookout for black lechwe in Zambia's Bangweulu Wetlands, Clive Hope got more than he bargained for

MY ANGRY GIANT • Not all storms are equal, discovers Judy Barnes

The great escape • With the challenges and pressures that 2020 presented, we could all be forgiven for wanting, at some point, to get as far away from it all as we possibly could. And where better to lose yourself than in Africa’s wide open spaces, where the ebb and flow of nature moves along oblivious. If you could disappear to anywhere you’d like, where would it be? We asked a selection of well-travelled specialist tour operators to share their choices

WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES • Why do lodges charge the rates they do, and what exactly are you paying for when you go on safari? While pricing is often influenced by government and environmental policies – how many tourists to allow in a protected area, for example – it is useful to understand what responsibilities your hosts have, and quite how much positive impact your stay has.

CASE STUDIES • As we’ve learned, the rates charged by camps and lodges vary dramatically, governed by many variables. With this comes a degree of expectation around quality, exclusivity, service and experience. Inevitably there will be some compromises, but there are excellent examples at all levels, so you should be spoilt for choice regardless of your budget. Here we look at a camp at the highest end of the market, located in Botswana, which has a low-volume/high-value policy to protect the environment, and a long-established facility in Malawi

nature’s call • An audacious philanthropic project in Mozambique has created one of the world’s greatest ecological recovery stories and redefined what conservation can mean for locals. Today, Gorongosa is one of the most biodiverse parks in Africa, but needs tourism to help secure the foundations laid by its quite remarkable turnaround.

blooming dales • Tourism can not only sow the seeds of a healthy, thriving business — providing employment and supporting local communities — it can also nurture ground-roots conservation and help protect some of our most precious and vulnerable habitats. Few places is this more evident than in South Africa’s coastal...