Month: March 2022

A Primitive Trail Under the Venda Stars

March 16, 2022 admin 0

South Africa’s original Wilderness Trails were rough adventures. In the 1950s, when game rangers Ian Player and Magqubu Ntombela started bringing visitors into iMfolozi and Lake St Lucia game reserves on foot, tents were not part of the kit list. Guests slept out in ‘bivvy’ bags, taking it in turns […]

Learn The Guiding Arts From Home

March 4, 2022 admin 0

By day they read tracks in the sand, and by night trace patterns in the star-scape. They can ID a soaring raptor in seconds, tell tales of the secret lives of ant colonies and describe a half dozen useful properties of the Shepherd’s tree. The depth of knowledge of a […]