The Story of the Last Lioness It has been confirmed by African Parks that a legendary lioness fondly known as ‘Lady Liuwa’, who lived in Liuwa Plain National Park in Zambia, has died of natural causes on August 9th, 2017, just one-day before World Lion Day. Lots of you already know the story of the… More »
The Chalo Africa Diary
The Mighty Elephants of Tarangire: Tanzania Trip Report – Part 2
This trip report is a continuation of Smita’s trip to Tanzania, beginning in Zanzibar. Tarangire National Park – January 21, 2017 After an exotic breakfast, we were transferred to Zanzibar Airport for our Coastal Aviation flight to Arusha arriving at 11:25 am. We got our luggage and stepped out to find our guide, Moses, waiting… More »
Zanzibar Times: Matemwe & Stone Town Trip Report – Part 1
Smita’s grand trip to Tanzania this January began in Zanzibar. Welcome to Zanzibar Excitement building up! We are off to Tanzania and this time I am accompanied by my husband (who is experiencing Africa for the first time J). After a shopping spree at Decathalon for all our safari gear, we are all set for… More »
Chalo South Africa – South African Tourism India Roadshow 2017 / 2018
Chalo South Africa: South African Tourism recently conducted a tourism roadshow in 4 cities in India. The four cities were Chennai, Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai. Chalo Africa attended the roadshow in two of the cities (Bangalore and Delhi) and had the fortune of meeting some of our South African trade partners. Chalo South Africa –… More »
Memoirs of a South Africa Trip: By Aditi Sivakumar
Our very young guest, Aditi Sivakumar, age 8, describes her recent trip to South Africa with wonderful eloquence. The Start – Seattle to South Africa On August 9th, 2016, we flew from Seattle to South Africa for vacation. It was our first time to the Africa continent. We took a flight to Amsterdam. Then we… More »
April/May 2015: Tswalu Kalahari – Trip Report
Where wild dogs tree leopards, lion cubs play with pangolins and aardvarks rule the night… April/May can be a magical time in the Kalahari. This year, unseasonal rains have carpeted the apricot-colored desert sands of Tswalu Kalahari with wide swathes of wild yellow sunflowers and waving plumes of silvery grasses on which springboks pronk and… More »