KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 4th Boeing 777-300ER named Amboseli National Park jetted into Kenya on Friday evening on its maiden commercial flight. The  425-seater aircraft is the latest addition to  KLM fleet and it signals a double ‘first’ being the first aircraft to leave the Boeing plant using environmentally friendlier paint and the first to be named after a national park in Africa. The Amboseli National Park aircraft is painted silver with dark blue accents of the SkyTeam Allian... Read Full Story

Zambia is considered to possess the largest water resources in the whole of Southern Africa. This is because the country has a wide assortment of rivers both big and small, all across the country. From these rivers hail not less than twenty awe inspiring waterfalls that make Zambia’s landscape look like illustrations of the Garden of Eden. The thunderous roar of the steady flowing waterfalls as water goes over their rocky edged cliffs is one of the most powerful sounds of nature. Various hote... Read Full Story

Surrounded by Eritrea and Djibouti to the North, Sudan to the West and Northwest, Somalia to the East and Southeast and Kenya to the South, Ethiopia is one of the most attractive countries in Africa. The Simien National Park is one of the many popular and important sites boasted by Ethiopia. The park covers an overall area of approximately 14,000 hectares and is located on the vast Amhara plateau in the Western Simien highlands of Northern Ethiopia. The Simien National Park is a World Heritag... Read Full Story

The Ngorongoro conservation area was initially a part of the greater known Serengeti before the British set it apart in 1951. The Ngorongoro conservation area, which  became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, is located towards the north of Tanzania and covers an expansive area of over 7,000 square miles. The park joins up with the Serengeti to the north-west and it is through here that wildebeest horde through during their world famous migration from the Masai Mara to Serengeti, then to N... Read Full Story

Table Mountain is one of the most well-known mountains in Africa, offering a magnificent backdrop to the city of Cape Town in South Africa. Renowned for the sheet of clouds that pours incessantly down its slopes, the mountain provides mountain climbers a wide range of routes. Table Mountain adventures depend on your preference; you choose whether you want to reach the peak and enjoy spectacular views of Cape Town or simply move around the cool shade of indigenous forest. But no matter your ch... Read Full Story

The western region of Kenya lacks those tourist attractions that are thought to be quintessentially Kenyan. Here, you will find no roaming lions; there will be no charming vistas of motor vehicles giving the right of way to tall giraffes or magnificent elephants. But despite this, the land beyond the rift is perhaps Kenya’s best kept secret. A number of ecosystems come together to create this magical region of Kenya. Gentle lolling hills blanketed by tea plantations; sedate lakes that support... Read Full Story

The Selous Game Reserve, in the remote south-east Tanzania is the largest protected wildlife reserve in Africa and covers 5 per cent  of Tanzania’s total area. It is no wonder that statistics of mammals habituating here are more than 100 000 buffalo, 40 000 hippos, 150 000 wildebeest, 5 000 zebra and 50 000 impala. There are lots and lots of the ever-towering giraffes hovering above the Selous grounds, that’s why some people call Selous the ‘Giraffic Park.’ The sheer size and numbers of... Read Full Story

The city of Alexandria, christened “The Pearl of the Mediterranean” is the second largest city of ancient Egypt and an important tourist resort. Located some 200km from Cairo, Alexandria boasts a good share of Egypt’s major tourist attractions. Alexandria, a city with a population of more than 3 million people, was founded by the renowned  Alexander the Great in 331 BC and designed by architect Denokrates II in the shape of a chessboard. Alexandria became the capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt, it... Read Full Story

Lusaka has been accorded several names its enthusiasts. ”The real Africa” and the “Sleeping giant” are some that come to mind as rapidly as the Victoria Falls-considered a wonder of the World. The ‘Real Africa’ due to some of Africa’s purest game parks and ‘sleeping giant’ for its mineral stock, untapped energy sources such as the mighty Zambezi River and vast expanses of arable soil underutilized. Zambia’s capital city is one of the highest points at an altitude of 1, 300m above sea level an... Read Full Story

Located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, Robben Island was used as a prison, a hospital for socially unacceptable groups, and a military base between the 17th and 20th centuries. In the 20th century the maximum security prison facilities of Robben Island held for over twenty years within their walls Nelson Mandela and some of his comrades who were most vocal in the fight against apartheid. Though the original intention was to detain and quiet anti-apartheid political activists he... Read Full Story