Most people know about the weird upside down trees and long-limbed monkey people; the baobabs and the lemurs, the images that mark the postage stamps of this faraway Indian Ocean island. But if you research the destination of Madagascar for long enough you will uncover a […]
Anjajavy L’Hotel in Madagascar Like the Mossey clan below, many families have a list of rules for the running of their household, a set of guidelines to ensure a happy and healthy home… Values like kindness, patience and gratitude and acts of love like hugging should […]
I think it was the book Jonathan Livingstone Seagull that did it. That served as my gateway to the magical world of birds. I grew up with an aviary of lovebirds and a pet African Grey, hand-reared a variety of fledgling cockatiels and budgies, sat […]
On a recent stay at The Plettenberg in Plettenberg Bay on the Garden Route, we were enticed by something called “the world’s first free roaming multi-species primate sanctuary”. All the monkeys of the world, well, many of them, in one place. This is Monkeyland. A sanctuary in the truest sense. His name […]
The Spirit of Relais & Châteaux “If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live.” – Fulton J. Sheen On the entrance to each of our hotels and lodges around Africa sits a gold Fleur de Lys, that distinctive mark of the Relais […]
