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Featured Travel Video Of The Week: Tyler Fairbank “SAFARI | South Africa”

by Nancy Baker | Jan 22, 2017 | Africa, Featured Travel Video Of The Week

For this week’s Travel Video Of The Week, we have selected “SAFARI | South Africa” by the outstandingly talented travel videographer Tyler Fairbank. This short travel film is set in South Africa and shows a quest to spot the “Big Five”;...

Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest: A visit to the world’s only pirate cemetery

by Reece Rheinbach | Jan 18, 2017 | Africa, Oceans, Sailing and Marine

In the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, wild pirates and buccaneers ruled the seas. They sailed the seas in pirated galleons, took what the pleased from trade vessels of any country, and were famed for their brutality and ruthlessness. Pirates were wanted men. There was...

Featured Travel Video Of The Week: Heather Aberdeen “Cairo to Capetown”

by Nancy Baker | Jan 8, 2017 | Africa, Featured Travel Video Of The Week

For this week’s travel video of the week, we have selected “Oasis Overland- Cairo to Cape town 2014/15” by Heather Aberdeen. This travel video documents the travels of a group of friends travelling with the tour operator ‘Oasis Overland’...

The World’s most inaccessible places: Spotlight on the Skeleton Coast

by Reece Rheinbach | Dec 18, 2016 | Africa, Inaccessible Places

Namibia’s Bushmen tribes know this place as “the land God made in anger.” The Skeleton Coast was first seen through western eyes by Portuguese explorers in the 15th century. The men were so shocked by the desolate conditions that they dubbed it “The Gates of Hell” The...