A Media Expedition Through Africa
FacebookIn Africa, the majority of the safari businesses are run by mzungus (Swahili for white people). While many of these tour operators and lodges offer sustainable holidays, with environmentally-friendly lodges that employ locals and avidly support community and wildlife development, few are can really say that they are entirely owned and operated by a local [...]
It always takes a while to get used to the road again. After spending 11 days in Nairobi, writing articles, editing videos and processing photos, we finally gear up Nandi for another leg of our journey. It’s clear, the time off from driving long distances daily has affected our reflexes. We realize that we are [...]
We enter Nairobi, the capital of Kenya and most important city in East Africa. Thanks to Ode, our tireless GPS, we take a short cut around the downtown area circumventing traffic to make it to Peter Munyi’s house in time to have a delicious dinner of rice, beans and fresh veggies. Umm those beans, seasoned [...]
We’re on a game drive, our guide and driver slows down the Land Rover Defender to a stop and says, “the elephants are between those two groups of tress” as he points far into the horizon. After confirming with our telephoto lenses and barely seeing some moving blobs, we could not believe Johann Cloete – our [...]
Leaving any African capital by car is not an easy task. In Lusaka, we had to cross heavily flooded roads and to leave Dar Es Salaam we spent more than an hour and a half in traffic jams and road chaos. But after leaving the city and back on the dirt roads, the flow was [...]
At 3’oclock in the afternoon Haroldo and I agree we must urgently have a work meeting. At this time the sun is too strong for any photos or filming. Our meeting does not involve laptops or emails, not even a pen and piece of paper, here on Chumbe Island we have our daily meeting basking [...]
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On a clear day you can see the Tanzanian coast from Zanzibar, but the cultural differences that separate the archipelago and the mainland are much greater than the 25 miles between the two. Zanzibar is a completely different world with a unique mixture of traditions, languages and even flavors. Its history involves kings of Persia [...]
