Overlanding in Africa

Please advised that there will be renovation work taking place at Victoria Falls Airport for the next 3 months.

The construction work entails extension of the entrance halls to the Terminal building which are expected to be completed in time of the UNWTO General Assembly in August 2013.

The International Departures entrance shall be temporarily closed until 1 May 2013. Passengers and clients will be requested to use the Domestic Departures Entrance to enter the Terminal building.

This will be followed by the closure of the Domestic Departure Entrance and passengers will requested to enter the Terminal using the International Departure Entrance.

Signage shall be clearly posted to direct passengers and clients accordingly.

The above renovations should have no impact on guests travel arrangements and we look forward to a new and improved terminal when renovations are complete.

So using various advanced scientific techniques its been confirmed that it is indeed King Richard III’s remains under a car park in Leicester.  And last year in Egypt we had various pyramids at Saqqara and even an entire city discovered by infra-red imaging.

However it hasn’t always been so high tech – did you know that the Valley of the Kings was initially 'discovered' by a horse stumbling into a shaft which led to the first royal tomb?  And of course there is the donkey that fell into a hole which led to the excavation of the Valley of the Golden Mummies at the beautiful Bahariya Oasis. 

See Bahariya and Saqqara plus the incredible pyramids at Jebel Barkal and Meroe in Sudan on our Cairo to Khartoum trip.

The country is to stop issuing hunting licences from next year in an effort to protect wildlife and increase tourism

Additional flights from Virgin and BA could make getting to Cape Town easier for UK visitors

The Serapeum of Saqqara has been reopened following an 11-year renovation project

Plans for a soda ash mine at a lake used as a breeding ground by over two million flamingos have been dropped

Be sure to pick a location based on what you want to do and be prepared for anything