Africa Stories

Welcome to The Safarist’s monthly trivia contest!  Each month we’ll be featuring a new quiz with trivia about the latest articles on The Safari...

A few weeks ago we shared a video of a lion casually opening the door of a car in a safari park in South Africa. The footage made international news and ga...

We’ve compiled some of the best safari deals for 2015 right here in one beautifully-wrapped little package. It’s not too late to escape the win...

The Great Serengeti Migration may be off to a record early start, according to an an article published on Telegraph.co.uk on March 20th.  Last week, hundre...

The life of a male lion is seldom easy. At around the age of two or three, if he is lucky enough to survive that long, he is kicked out of his maternal pri...

Want to experience one of Southern Africa’s best kept safari secrets and get a free stay at one of Cape Town’s most stylish accommodations? Rig...

You are lucky, to say the least, if you happen to catch a brief glimpse of a pangolin while on safari. Even professional safari guides often lament the fac...

Drastic times calls for drastic measures, as the old adage goes. And these are certainly drastic times for South Africa’s rhinos. The country, which ...

Many safari-goers find themselves in Nairobi for a day or two before or after their adventure. Though there is plenty to see and do in East Africa’s ...

My friend Dr. Amanda Stronza recently took this fantastic image of a Carmine bee eater in action and was kind enough to share the story behind it with us: ...

Wildlife documentarians Bob and Gina Pool will be staying at Kenya’s Naboisho Camp for three months, beginning in early February, and you’re in...

You may have already seen this video of a lion in South Africa casually opening a car door, much to the surprise and horror of the family inside. It has ra...

Leopards are notoriously opportunistic feeders, a trait that has made them the most successful big cat species in the world. In fact, in South Africa’...

As you might imagine, few places can rival Botswana’s Kalahari Desert when it comes to spectacular stargazing. Because there is almost no light pollu...

Christian Ghammachi wasn’t the first person to embark upon an epic motorcycle trip across Africa. But he may have been the first to bring a drone alo...

There is a lot of really bad conservation news coming out of Africa these days.  Most notably, surging demand for illegal wildlife products in Asian market...

One of the magical things about being on safari is that you can pretty much expect the unexpected to happen at any time. But few unexpected wildlife sighti...

The editors at Rough Guides recently shared their picks for the top travel destinations of 2015 and Johannesburg has claimed the number one spot in the top...