Top Picks for Travel in February

Posted on June 30th, 2020 by Overland Africa

Top Picks for Travel in February

Top Picks for February

Quirimbas Archipelago Mozambique

 

Season High Summer Average Temperature for February 27 Celsius 81 Fahrenheit

What to do: Sunset dhow cruises, trips to historic Ibo Island, relaxing on powdery beaches and sampling the day’s catch. Not to mention excellent diving and snorkeling.

Why: Quirimbas Archipelago is fairly untouched by cyclone season. Islands like Vamizi, Quilalea and Medjumbe bask in tropical sunshine.

 

Ngorongoro Crater – Tanzania

 

Season High Summer Average Temperature for February 22 Celsius 71 Fahrenheit

What to do: Some of the most superb Big 5 game viewing in the world.

Why: Ngorongoro has very easy game viewing because the animals never venture beyond the Crater’s walls. It is generally very busy with avid safari goers but February is one of its quieter times, meaning more space to yourself and better rates.

When to book: The Crater is very popular so don’t leave it until the last minute.

 

Samburu National Park Kenya

 

Season High Summer Average Temperature for February 28 Celsius 82 Fahrenheit

What: Game drives to spot the Samburu Special 5: these species are endemic to the region and comprise endangered Grevy’s zebra, reticulated giraffe, beisa oryx, Somali ostrich and gerenuk.

Why: Samburu lies in an arid part of Kenya but after the summer rains its doum palm groves and thorny scrub spring to life with plenty of grazing. Look out for baby gerenuks.

 

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Top Picks For Travel in January

Posted on June 29th, 2020 by Overland Africa

Top Picks For Travel in January

Top Picks for January. Whether you are planning to witness the Great Wildebeest Migration in East Africa, experience a Big 5 safari in the Kruger National Park or relax on the beach in Zanzibar, timing is important. Our guidelines are based on our expert, on-the-ground knowledge of Africa’s travel seasons.

Zanzibar Tanzania

Season High Summer, Average Temperature for January 27 Celsius 80 Fahrenheit

What to Expect: Diving, Snorkeling, Sailing,  Spice Tour, Stone Town Tour

Why: Zanzibar is an island off the Indian Coast of Tanzania and averages only five rainy days for the month of January. The south of the main island offers the best diving conditions while the north has the best sunset views. For exceptional reef diving and snorkeling, head to the exclusive outlying islands of Pemba, Mafia and Mnemba. Zanzibar is also home to Stone Town, a World Heritage Site with plenty to see and do. A beach holiday on Zanzibar is the perfect way to relax after the early morning wake-up calls of a Southern Serengeti safari.

Southern Serengeti – Tanzania

Season High Summer Average Temperature for January 17 Celsius 63 Fahrenheit

What to Expect: Calving season during the Great Wildebeest Migration.

Why: The herds mass in the Southern Serengeti at this time of year to take advantage of the excellent grazing – depending on whether good rains fell in time – that will sustain their calves. About 8 000 calves are born every day and there is plenty of predator action from lions, hyenas, leopards, wild dogs and jackals. Game drives will take you to the heart of the action.

Gorilla Trekking Uganda

Season High Summer Average Temperature for January 11 Celsius 64 Fahrenheit

What to Expect: Trekking mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

Why: January generally coincides with a short dry spell, making it easier and more comfortable to trek because there is less rain and mud.

When to book: All gorilla-trekking destinations issue a limited number of permits per day and there is limited accommodation available in remote parks like Bwindi. Book as soon as you decide to go trekking to avoid disappointment – peak dry season is very popular.

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Okavango & Chobe Trail 2021 @ 2020 rates!!!

Posted on June 26th, 2020 by Overland Africa

9-days Okavango and Chobe Trail Camping or Accommodated

Okavango & Chobe Trail 2021 @ 2020 rates!!!

Camping – 2021 Price approx. USD 1,120 per person or approx. EURO 1,000 per person
Accommodated – 2021 Price approx. USD 1,445 per person or EURO 1,290 per person

This 9 day tour will take you from Johannesburg into the heart of the Okavango Delta, Chobe National Park and Victoria Falls.

Countries Visited South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe

We might have had to hit the pause button on travel for now but let us take advantage of this time to start planning your overland adventure while we wait for the skies to reopen. For the month of June 2020, we would like to offer you our 2020 Early Bird Special!! What this means is that we are offering you the opportunity to book our carefully selected 2021 tours at our current 2020 rate! 

Coupled with a favourable exchange rate against the weaker South African Rand (ZAR) you will be able to book, for example, our 20-Day Cape Town to Victoria Falls accommodated tour at a price that we would have last seen around early 2018! Read more about our exciting Overland Africa tours on offer …

–  Tours departing between 01 January 2021 until 30 June 2021 will qualify for the Early Bird Booking Deal

– Our 2020 Rand rate will apply for tours booked with us during the month of June 2020

– All our standard terms and conditions will apply to all bookings such as payment & cancellation terms

 

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Book in June for 2021 @ 2020 rates!!

Posted on June 26th, 2020 by Overland Africa

Book in June for 2021 @ 2020 rates!!

14 day Discover Mozambique Camping or Accommodated

Camping – 2021 Price approx. USD 1,250 per person or approx. EURO 1,115 per person
Accommodated – 2021 Price approx. USD 1,715 per person or EURO 1,530 per person

This Mozambique tour is a perfect combination of a bush and beach experience, from the Big 5 in Kruger Park and Eswatini to the tropical waters of Bazaruto Island and Tofo!

Countries Visited South Africa, Mozambique, Eswatini (previously known as Swaziland)

Pay 2020 rates for selected Tours 2021!! We might have had to hit the pause button on travel for now but let us take advantage of this time to start planning your overland adventure while we wait for the skies to reopen. For the month of June 2020, we would like to offer you our 2020 Early Bird Special!! What this means is that we are offering you the opportunity to book our carefully selected 2021 tours at our current 2020 rate! 

Coupled with a favourable exchange rate against the weaker South African Rand (ZAR) you will be able to book, for example, our 20-Day Cape Town to Victoria Falls accommodated tour at a price that we would have last seen around early 2018! Read more about our exciting Overland Africa tours on offer …

 

–  Tours departing between 01 January 2021 until 30 June 2021 will qualify for the Early Bird Booking Deal

– Our 2020 Rand rate will apply for tours booked with us during the month of June 2020

– All our standard terms and conditions will apply to all bookings such as payment & cancellation terms

 

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Pay 2020 rates for selected Tours in 2021!!

Posted on June 26th, 2020 by Overland Africa

Pay 2020 rates for selected Tours 2021!

Pay 2020 rates for selected Tours 2021!! We might have had to hit the pause button on travel for now but let us take advantage of this time to start planning your overland adventure while we wait for the skies to reopen. For the month of June 2020, we would like to offer you our 2020 Early Bird Special!! What this means is that we are offering you the opportunity to book our carefully selected 2021 tours at our current 2020 rate! 

Coupled with a favourable exchange rate against the weaker South African Rand (ZAR) you will be able to book, for example, our 20-Day Cape Town to Victoria Falls accommodated tour at a price that we would have last seen around early 2018! Read more about our exciting Overland Africa tours on offer …

 

–  Tours departing between 01 January 2021 until 30 June 2021 will qualify for the Early Bird Booking Deal

– Our 2020 Rand rate will apply for tours booked with us during the month of June 2020

– All our standard terms and conditions will apply to all bookings such as payment & cancellation terms

 

20 days Victoria Falls to Nairobi Camping or Accommodated

Camping – 2021 Price approx. USD 2,260 per person or approx. EURO 2,020 per person
Accommodated – 2021 Price approx. USD 2,850 per person or EURO 2,550 per person

Taking you into the heart of East Africa, this East African Adventure tour is the optimal bush and beach experience, with a little adventure thrown in to keep you on your toes!
Countries Visited Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya

 

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Book your 2021 Safari at 2020 rates!!

Posted on June 26th, 2020 by Overland Africa

Book your 2021 Safari at 2020 rates!!

 

Book your 2021 Safari at 2020 rates!! We might have had to hit the pause button on travel for now but let us take advantage of this time to start planning your overland adventure while we wait for the skies to reopen. For the month of June 2020, we would like to offer you our 2020 Early Bird Special!! What this means is that we are offering you the opportunity to book our carefully selected 2021 tours at our current 2020 rate! 

Coupled with a favourable exchange rate against the weaker South African Rand (ZAR) you will be able to book, for example, our 20-Day Cape Town to Victoria Falls accommodated tour at a price that we would have last seen around early 2018! Read more about our exciting Overland Africa tours on offer …

 

20 days Cape Town to Victoria Falls  

Accommodated – 2021 Price approx. USD 2,840 per person or EURO 2,540 per person
Camping –
2021 Price approx. USD 1,780 per person or approx. EURO 1,595 per person

Our signature and most popular tour, the Cape Town to Victoria Falls 20 Day tour, highlights Southern Africa’s most incredible sights.
Countries Visited South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe

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The RHINO Orphanage – South Africa

Posted on June 22nd, 2020 by Overland Africa

The RHINO Orphanage – South Africa

Have a look at this amazing organisation ….
The Rhino Orphanage is a non-profit organisation close to our hearts.  This wonderful Rehabilitation and Rescue facility cares for orphaned or injured baby rhinos of South Africa due to the poaching crises which feeds the illegal trade in horns. These baby rhinos are hand-reared with the intention of releasing them back into the wild. They have done incredible work and have saved so many baby rhinos.

The RHINO Orphanage – South Africa

OUR COMMITMENT

  1. Build and manage the World’s First Rhino Orphanage
  2. Create an environment where orphaned rhinos are safe from poachers
  3. Ensure that all rhinos within the orphanage receive the proper treatment, care and love they deserve
  4. To ensure that all human contact is kept to an absolute minimum to ensure release back into the wild
  5. Keep the public informed on the progress of the rhinos without commercializing or exposing these animals for any profit or gain
  6. Continue the fight on behalf of these wonderful animals who cannot fight for themselves

Their mission – These helpless, defenceless babies need love, a life, a home and the chance to receive the greatest gift of all – freedom.

The Legend Rhino Orphanage has been established as a not?for?profit charity (Section 21 company in South Africa) with all donations going directly to fund the centre and the care and rehabilitation of the rhinos.

Learn more about this amazing organisation www.therhinoorphanage.co.za or like their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TheRhinoOrphanage

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Bringing Africa’s Top Safari Parks to you .. Botswana Chobe Safari: Africa’s Elephant Paradise

Posted on June 22nd, 2020 by Overland Africa

Bringing Africa’s Top Safari Parks to you .. Botswana Chobe Safari: Africa’s Elephant Paradise

Explore some of Africa’s TOP Safari parks ..dream now ..travel later 

Soon we will all travel again! In the meantime, we will continue fuelling our inspirations and travel dreams to you until you can go on safari again.

Choosing when to go on a safari is something that should be carefully considered for the experience to meet your expectations. For general game viewing, there is no real ‘best time’ to go. We would love to share some information to help you decide where and when to go on safari!

Botswana Chobe Safari: Africa’s Elephant Paradise

Why Go?

If there’s one memory that you’ll take away from a Chobe safari, it’s that of elephants. About 120 000 live in and around Chobe National Park, and inconceivable numbers of these gentle giants can be seen crowding the banks of the Chobe River during Botswana’s dry season.Chobe is also one of the best places in Africa to witness the most dramatic predator action – its Savuti region is where lions regularly clash with hyenas and powerful prides famously take down Africa’s biggest game like buffalo, giraffe and even elephants.

Chobe National Park is about the size of Northern Ireland and a haven for the biggest elephant populations on the planet. Chobe offers game drives and river cruises in an unspoilt environment that supports massive herds of not only elephant but also a multitude of buffalo that is unrivalled elsewhere in Africa.

When to Go?

Most visitors go to Chobe National Park for its famous dry-season game viewing. From May to the end of October/early November, ever-increasing numbers of water-dependent animals (especially elephants and buffalo) are concentrated along the Chobe River as well as in the park’s central Savuti region.

May, June and July are bone-dry with cold nights but temperatures rise rapidly as the rainy season approaches. August, September and October offer sensational game viewing but under very hot conditions.

If you can handle the heat, this is the best game-viewing time for a Chobe safari. The arrival of the rains trigger a dispersal of game from the Chobe River area but the warm, rainy December to March summer months are the best time to visit Chobe for bird watching, the impala birthing season (great for predators!) and to see the Savute zebra migration. Indeed, many safari experts rate early summer as the best time to go to Savute.

2 of our most popular Botswana adventure tours that visit this region  …

13 day Botswana Wildside Camping
7 day Delta and Chobe Fully serviced

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Bringing Africa’s Top Safari Parks to you .. Namibia…Etosha National Park

Posted on June 22nd, 2020 by Overland Africa

Explore some of Africa’s TOP Safari parks ..dream now ..travel later 

Soon we will all travel again! In the meantime, we will continue fuelling our inspirations and travel dreams to you until you can go on safari again.

Choosing when to go on a safari is something that should be carefully considered for the experience to meet your expectations. For general game viewing, there is no real ‘best time’ to go. We would love to share some information to help you decide where and when to go on safari!

Namibia…Etosha National Park one of Africa’s TOP Safari parks

Why Go?

Regarded by safari experts as one of Africa’s greatest wildlife reserves, the 22 750 km² Etosha National Park is one of the easiest, safest and most rewarding big game destinations in Southern Africa. You will appreciate the good roads and wide range of animals and photographers will relish the action at the game-packed waterholes! Dominated by the pancake-flat Etosha Pan, a 5 000km² seasonally flooded depression, Etosha National Park is an area of open, grassy woodland and thick scrub, studded with waterholes.

When to Go?

May to October winter months are widely regarded as the best time to visit Namibia for game viewing. The skies are clear, the risk of malaria is at its lowest, and animals are increasingly concentrated around water sources as the dry season wears on. Prepare however for freezing night time temperatures in June and July whereas September and October can be extremely hot. The summer rains between November and April turn the country green and occasionally bring floods to the desert. December can see very rewarding game viewing in Etosha and summer is the best time to go to Namibia for bird watching though you’ll need to watch out for malaria in the Caprivi Strip (newly renamed the Zambezi Region), Namibia’s wettest region and a place best avoided in the peak wet months of January and February.

Have a look at the following adventure tours ….they visit Etosha and a few other exciting safari destinations 

20 days Cape Town to Vic Falls Accommodated
7 day Pride of Namibia Camping

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Botswana Chobe Safari: Africa’s Elephant Paradise

Posted on June 1st, 2020 by Overland Africa

Botswana Chobe Safari: Africa’s Elephant Paradise

Why Go?

If there’s one memory that you’ll take away from a Chobe safari, it’s that of elephants. About 120 000 live in and around Chobe National Park, and inconceivable numbers of these gentle giants can be seen crowding the banks of the Chobe River during Botswana’s dry season.Chobe is also one of the best places in Africa to witness the most dramatic predator action – its Savuti region is where lions regularly clash with hyenas and powerful prides famously take down Africa’s biggest game like buffalo, giraffe and even elephants.

 

Chobe National Park is about the size of Northern Ireland and a haven for the biggest elephant populations on the planet. Chobe offers game drives and river cruises in an unspoilt environment that supports massive herds of not only elephant but also a multitude of buffalo that is unrivalled elsewhere in Africa.

 

 

When to Go?

Most visitors go to Chobe National Park for its famous dry-season game viewing. From May to the end of October/early November, ever-increasing numbers of water-dependent animals (especially elephants and buffalo) are concentrated along the Chobe River as well as in the park’s central Savuti region. May, June and July are bone-dry with cold nights but temperatures rise rapidly as the rainy season approaches. August, September and October offer sensational game viewing but under very hot conditions. If you can handle the heat, this is the best game-viewing time for a Chobe safari. The arrival of the rains trigger a dispersal of game from the Chobe River area but the warm, rainy December to March summer months are the best time to visit Chobe for bird watching, the impala birthing season (great for predators!) and to see the Savute zebra migration. Indeed, many safari experts rate early summer as the best time to go to Savute.

 

2 of our most popular Botswana adventure tours that visit this region  …

13 day Botswana Wildside Camping
7 day Delta and Chobe Fully serviced

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Bringing Africa’s Top Safari Parks to you .. Namibia…Etosha National Park

Posted on June 1st, 2020 by Overland Africa
Bringing Africa’s Top Safari Parks to you .. Namibia…Etosha National Park

Why Go?

Namibia Etosha National Park…. Regarded by safari experts as one of Africa’s greatest wildlife reserves, the 22 750 km² Etosha National Park is one of the easiest, safest and most rewarding big game destinations in Southern Africa. You will appreciate the good roads and wide range of animals and photographers will relish the action at the game-packed waterholes! Dominated by the pancake-flat Etosha Pan, a 5 000km² seasonally flooded depression, Etosha National Park is an area of open, grassy woodland and thick scrub, studded with waterholes.

  • The sheer abundance of game. Above all else, Etosha is known for its wealth of big game.
  • The dramatic landscapes. Etosha’s most well-known feature is the vast salt pan that is found at its heart, which is so big it can be seen from space. …
  • The park is packed with an eclectic mix of familiar faces such as elephant, giraffe, lion, leopard and zebra as well as the desert specialists like springbok and the handsome gemsbok.
  • It’s also one of the best places in Southern Africa to see the endangered cheetah and black rhino not to mention rare antelope species like black-faced impala, Damara dik dik and roan antelope, plus there’s a bird count of 340 species – an interesting blend of savannah, water and desert birds.
  • The chance to explore beyond the park..

 

When to Go?

May to October winter months are widely regarded as the best time to visit Namibia for game viewing. The skies are clear, the risk of malaria is at its lowest, and animals are increasingly concentrated around water sources as the dry season wears on. Prepare however for freezing night time temperatures in June and July whereas September and October can be extremely hot. The summer rains between November and April turn the country green and occasionally bring floods to the desert. December can see very rewarding game viewing in Etosha and summer is the best time to go to Namibia for bird watching though you’ll need to watch out for malaria in the Caprivi Strip (newly renamed the Zambezi Region), Namibia’s wettest region and a place best avoided in the peak wet months of January and February.

Have a look at the following adventure tours ….they visit Etosha and a few other exciting safari destinations 

20 days Cape Town to Vic Falls Accommodated
7 day Pride of Namibia Camping

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