Jill Worrall Tours

19/10/2024

Great news! Sri Lanka, my first tour for 2025 is now a confirmed departure. I do still have space for a few more travellers on that tour and on the second tour of the year, Turkey so do get in touch if you'd like to see the itineraries for either of these great trips.

05/10/2024

My Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland tour itinerary (July 21-Aug 9, 2025) has been released. This is going to be another once-in-a-lifetime tour that will leave you with memories to last a lifetime. Fascinating cultures, stupendous scenery from glaciers and icebergs to volcanoes to geysers, this tour has it all. Due to requirements from airlines and accommodation I only have this month to make this tour a confirmed departure so get in touch so we can send you the itinerary. There is an early bird discount too!

24/09/2024

Our last evening in Namibia and what an ending! Three white rhinos at sunset. Almost unbelievable. Photos courtesy of Kerry (I'd left my phone on charge!). The rhinos have round-the-clock protection from antipoaching rangers.Tragic that they need this.

23/09/2024

Three countries, a week's camping, just about every African animal people have dreamed of seeing, amazing landscapes and lovely people. We've also bumped along some challenging roads and breathed in a lot of African dust so the end-of-tour treat (apart from last night's dinner by starlight) is a luxury lodge near Windhoek.

22/09/2024

Our day ended with sundowners and dinner under the stars.

22/09/2024

We spent our second-to-last day in Namibia in probably its most famous places..the red dunes and salt pans of Sossusvlei in the Namib Desert.

21/09/2024

We have just left the Skeleton Coast and the Walvis Bay flamingos.We found thousands of them on lagoons just inland from the beach.

20/09/2024

Last night's accommodation..we each had a cottage with its own garden used to grow produce for the restaurant. Coffee break was at the oasis-like Cactus Cafe. Just before Swakopmund we stopped on the Atlantic Coast to see a shipwreck. There are many along the coast but it is known as the Skeleton Coast because of the number of right whale bones that littered it after whalers had removed just the balleen plates (for corsets) and left the rest of the carcasses to rot. The shot through the windscreen shows the road conditions! It was just a little dusty, especially after no proper rain for two years.

20/09/2024

After a few days with either no or erratic wifi we are now in Swakopmund on Namibia's Skeleton Coast. We spent most of yesterday in Damaraland, home to the Damara people, who after the Bushmen people are some of the oldest inhabitants of this region. We also visited some ancient rock engravings and a vast petrified forest.

17/09/2024

Our late afternoon game drive put the icing on the cake of our wildlife sightings. A beautiful female cheetah which jumped to the top of a termite mound to survey her domain. Amazing. This photo is grainy because I photographed it off my camera screen just to give you an idea how astonishing it was.

17/09/2024

So happy for the group! Today our very dedicated wildlife guides in Etosha NP found us a highly endangered black rhino AND the highly elusive cheetah (the latter at a distance). Phone photo not fantastic but it is proof!!

17/09/2024

We had two charter aircraft to fly us over the Okavango Delta to bring us to the Botswana Namibia border. We stated overnight at a lodge on the Okavango River with Angola on the far bank. Some of us went birdwatching ...with champagne!

16/09/2024

By the way. All the photos you are seeing on Facebook are taken just on my Samsung phone! I juggle that with my 'proper' camera.

16/09/2024

Last animal pics from Botswana!

16/09/2024

Vini and Bate, our wonderful Botswana guides and out and about in the delta where sometimes it got a little dusty!

16/09/2024

Two of our campsites. We were serenaded at night by garrumphing hippos, the howling of hyenas and the shuffling of elephants through our camps.

15/09/2024

It's taken me more than 15 years to achieve a goal of a photo of a leopard sleeping in a tree.. Moemi in Botswana delivered! The lion was sleeping near his pride of lionesses and cubs. The shot was taken just over the side of the 4x4.

15/09/2024

A Mokoro cruise on the Okavango Delta. Sorry about the previous Motorola! Posting at about 530am and in a hurry!

15/09/2024

15/09/2024

Sharon's birthday and a lunchtime siesta as we crossed the Okavango. We took a long time to find a picnic spot because there were giraffes under all the best shady treed!

15/09/2024

We arrived in Namibia this afternoon after a week camping across Botswana. We had so many amazing wildlife encounters so I will be doing some catch up posts! These pics are from Chobe National Park. Lions, impala and a pack of at least 30 rare painted dogs.