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We’re thrilled to be collaborating with Kim Gray this month. Kim is a South African who runs her own fashion, decor, travel and lifestyle blog.
As our Guest Editor, she handpicks her safari inspired favourites throughout September.
Brian Jackman“Africa changes you forever, like nowhere on earth. Once you have been there, you will never be the same. But how do you begin to describe its magic to someone who has never felt it? How can you explain the fascination of this vast, dusty continent, whose oldest roads are elephant paths? Could it be because Africa is the place of all our beginnings, the cradle of mankind, where our species first stood upright on the savannahs of long ago?”
Father’s Day is here and we’re getting ready to celebrate the makers of dad jokes and bush braais. Here are five gifts your dad will love, almost as much as he loves his family and hopefully as much as he loves his golf clubs.
First published in 1937, Out of Africa recounts events of the seventeen years when Karen Blixen made her home in Kenya. Here is a list of books, all written about or by Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen.
Next on our list of wonderful safari spaces to swoon over is Chinzombo Camp in the South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. Set on the banks of the Luangwa River, Chinzombo’s villas epitomise style, luxury and exclusivity.
Photo credit: Norman Carr Safaris
Jane Goodall“It was wildest, untouched Africa, and it was magic.”
Whether it’s sweets or savouries, carrot cake or koeksisters, some of Africa’s safari lodges have a knack for putting on the most delicious high tea spreads in the wildest locations. If you love high tea is much as we do, you’ll want to know which lodges do it best.