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...Most people who go on South African safari holidays hope to see Big Five game?lions, leopards, buffalos, rhinos and elephants?but what about the Small 110? That's how many South African frog species there are, and Amakhosi Lodge, a five-hour drive southeast of Johannesburg in the Kwazulu-Natal province's 10,000-hectare Amazulu Game Reserve, is offering frog-tracking safaris to find them (tel: [27-034] 414 1157; www.amakhosi.com). Frog watching can involve three-hour sessions of nocturnal wading; a headlamp leaves your hands free for holding a net and a guidebook. Expect...
...huge amount of other life as well, including creatures rarely seen on big-game drives because the habitat is not accessible," says Alwyn Wentzel, the lodge manager. "Rare serval cats, monitor lizards, terrapins, aquatic birds, cane rats, pythons" and more. But why does the safari leader carry a rifle? Because the Big Five frequent the watering holes...
Most people who go on South African safari holidays hope to see Big Five game - lions, leopards, buffalos, rhinos and elephants - but what about the Small 110? That's how many South African frog species there are, and Amakhosi Lodge, a five-hour drive southeast of Johannesburg in the Kwazulu-Natal province's 10,000-hectare Amazulu Game Reserve, is offering frog-tracking safaris to find them (tel: [27-034] 414 1157; www.amakhosi.com). Frog watching can involve three-hour sessions of nocturnal wading; a headlamp leaves your hands free for holding a net and a guidebook. Expect...
...Wednesday, a couple of my roommates and I braved a noreaster to visit all of the House libraries in an expedition we variously called a library safari and a lib crawl, packing, as provisions, a bottle of rum. It had been on our list of things to do before we graduated. We climbed spiral staircases; we poked into the back of stacks, tipping books from the shelves at random in the hope of opening doors to secret passages. We pretended to shut each other in the vault in the basement of the Kirkland library. We passed...
...traditionally built" woman's footprints through the capital of Gaborone and the surrounding countryside. The Mma Ramotswe's Botswana tours are based on the best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of books by Zimbabwe-born Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, and are run by local safari company Africa Insight (www.africainsight.com...