Bushtracks Expeditions

04/28/2022

IN OUR TRAVELERS' WORDS: THE WILLIAM FAMILY ON SAFARI IN KENYA

Best Family Safaris in Kenya Africa featuring Bushtracks Past Travelers, the William Family.

04/27/2022

At Wilderness Safaris' Abu Camp an optional extra scenic flights (by helicopter or light aircraft) are encouraged and can be arranged to give you an enhanced perspective on the make-up of the Okavango, and opportunities to peer into secret islands and lagoons.


📸 Abu Camp, Wilderness Safaris, Botswana

04/25/2022

Namibia’s iconic rust-red dunes, bleached white pans and cerulean skies draw
photographers, naturalists, and those seeking the inimitable silence and clear
light of the world’s oldest desert.

Explore our Namibia's Red Dunes & Rhinos itinerary: https://www.bushtracks.com/trip/namibias-red-dunes-rhinos/


📸 Werner Du plessis

04/24/2022

Kenya's Top 5 Places to Visit on Your African Safari

Discover the 5 best places to visit in Kenya while on your African safari in East Africa. Journey through the Masai Mara, Mt Kilimanjaro & beyond.

04/23/2022

African Lion Conservation and Ewaso Lions in Samburu.
"It’s incredible how few people know that Africa’s lions are disappearing. We hear a lot about the threats facing elephants and rhinos, but lions are quietly slipping away. Lions have declined by 90% in just the last 75 years."


https://www.bushtracks.com/african-lion-conservation-and-ewaso-lions-in-samburu/

04/22/2022

Zambia Safari Video: Lions and hippos and drones, oh my!

Bushtracks shares a Zambia safari video produced by our friends at Chiawa Camp using drone technology to film stunning African wildlife.

04/21/2022

Walking Wild, Walking Free...
"As I walk with my Masai guide Kitonga I feel like a born again traveler. There is no talk of Covid. Just the thrill of spotting a leopard. Tracking spoor. Walking up to black rhinos."

https://www.bushtracks.com/walking-wild-walking-free/

04/20/2022

Babylonstoren is one of the oldest Cape Dutch farms in the Western Cape, South Africa. It has a fruit and vegetable garden of beauty and diversity, unique accommodation, fine food and a sense of wellbeing.


📸 Babylonstoren, Western Cape, South Africa

04/18/2022

Choosing Between Eastern & Southern Africa Safaris?

Safari veterans broadly divide Africa into two regions, eastern and southern. Because of the continent’s enormous size, if you can narrow down your interests, focusing on one region or another makes sense during a two-week stay. As you consider the distinctive qualities of each region, it is important to note that these are generalizations only, and exceptions abound. While Southern Africa generally features smaller camps on private reserves, for example, there are excellent small camps in private concessions in Eastern Africa, too, and both regions offer opportunities to see Africa’s Big Five, indulge in some beach time, or engage with a local community.

📷 Camels on the coast: Harshil Gudka
📷 Penguins in the Cape:

04/17/2022

"Everyone tells you that gorilla encounters are very special, and they are. First of all, you know that the only place you can see world’s remaining mountain gorillas is in the wild, and only in a few remote places, so there’s that. But there is such a strong connection to these animals – just looking at their hands and the way they use them. Then you see them interact: the head honcho silverback dropped to his knees, rear in the air, to play with the babies, just like a doting grandfather. You see moms feeding babies, and you see younger males quarrel only to be put back in line by the silverback when things get out of control. I felt very calm in their presence, in spite of their enormous size."

- Samantha Barbitta, Bushtracks' Division Specialist Independent Travel and safari expert

📸 Charles J. Sharp, Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk

https://www.bushtracks.com/gorilla-trekking-in-rwanda-a-mother-daughter-adventure/?fbclid=IwAR0R2DcvbscnFxMa6skI5eITd45FJwWp92mAPfRT5YEJ6pUifbyxtGd2mTo

04/16/2022

Conservation Safaris: Black Rhinos of Namibia's Damaraland
"Damaraland is one of those alien landscapes where humans living in a positively pre-industrial state, scratch out livings where life permits. It looks like the place exploded at some time in the geological past, and that is not entirely wrong. The entire surface is the result of successive volcanic episodes in the building up and breaking down of the Earth’s crust."


https://www.bushtracks.com/conservation-safaris-black-rhinos-of-namibias-damaraland/

04/15/2022

Beyond the Headlines: My Botswana Safari

Bushtracks President David Tett on a Botswana safari in October 2014 shares why Africa's wilderness is an antidote to anxiety.

04/14/2022

PICKING THE BEST PHOTO EQUIPMENT FOR YOUR SAFARI

What is the best camera and equipment to bring on your African Safari? Every safari is a photographic safari...Learn More

04/13/2022

Set on the shores of Lake Kariba, with views of the Matusadona mountains, Changa Safari Camp is a place that captures the essence of natural beauty, with peace, seclusion and an unusual blend of landscapes.


📸 Changa Safari Camp, Kaariba, Zimbabwe

04/11/2022

Looking for a custom itinarary suggestion to run towards? Look no further than "Best of Eastern & Southern Africa".

Take this ultimate safari across four African countries uniting destinations that most travelers take two trips to visit! Encounter an abundance of animals in the Masai Mara and Okavango Delta, witness the thundering Victoria Falls and relax in the awe-inspiring Cape Town.

Find the safari here: https://www.bushtracks.com/trip/best-of-eastern-southern-africa/

04/10/2022

Gorilla Trekking in Rwanda: A Mother & Daughter Adventure

Bushtracks' Safari Specialist Samantha Barbitta's "Gorilla Trekking in Rwanda: A Mother & Daughter Adventure." Gorilla Trekking in Rwanda, Eastern Africa.

04/09/2022

Did you know Chobe Game Lodge, Botswana, has electric-powered game drive vehicles for a more immersive, carbon-emission free safari. Meanwhile, riverside game viewing is done from the lodges full fleet of solar-electric powered safari boats offering silent safaris on Botswana’s renowned Chobe River!


📸 Chobe Game Lodge

04/08/2022

Zambia's South Luangwa river and surrounding woodlands are one of the best birding localities in Africa, with great avian spectacles especially when the river dries to shallow pools in winter and birds in great profusion congregate in frenetic clusters to feed on the trapped fish: yellow-bill and saddle-bill storks, marabous, herons, egrets, pelicans, kingfishers and one of the local “lifers”, Pel’s fishing owls.

https://www.bushtracks.com/beating-the-safari-crowds-zambias-luangwa-valley/


📸 Derek Keats

04/07/2022

Kenya Safaris: Walking with Warriors

Kenya Safaris: Learn about custom luxury trips to Kenya from Africa Travel Expert David Bristow and tribes of Kenya on your East African safari.

04/06/2022

Dulini Leadwood Lodge captivates its guests by taking deep root in their hearts, much like the ancient trees after which the Lodge is named. Leadwood Lodge is the ultimate safari choice for discerning travellers in search of luxurious exclusivity and solitude.


📸 Dulini Leadwood Lodge, Kruger National Park, South Africa

04/04/2022

Why utilize custom safari specialists like Bushtracks Expeditions; the kind of people you’d go to if you wanted to retrofit your father’s old Harley? Just as you’d like the mechanic to know his valve stems from his rocker arms, you’d want your safari agent to know her monkeys from her apes, cheetahs from leopards, and the cultural differences between the Maasai and the Samburu. First prize would be to find people who had grown up in, or at least regularly visited, the African bush.

Enter Bushtracks.

04/03/2022

Book your stay with Chem Chem Lodge in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania and discover the wilderness through the eyes of those who have lived it and breathed it for centuries: the Maasai. A warrior will walk or run with you as a field guide – a rare opportunity to learn how this local population has survived by living in harmony with wild animals for hundreds of years.


📸 Chem Chem Lodge, Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

04/02/2022

Critical to protecting Africa’s wildlife are the local people that share the land, often alongside one another. If people and wildlife learn to live together—inside and outside of protected areas—the future for all will thrive.


📸 Desroches

04/01/2022

Photographing African Wildlife in Action

African wildlife photography tips by expert David Bristow explains how to take photos of African animals and how to anticipating animal behavior.

04/01/2022

The Bushtracks 7 heading north from Cape Town to Kruger on board the luxury train Rovos Rail. bushtracksexp

04/01/2022

Bushtracks is on safari again with David Tett and 6 keen travelers starting in the South - Cape Town, Cape Point and Wineland’s, and heading north on the luxurious Rovos Rail train. bushtracksexp

03/31/2022

Chelsea Handler's Uganda Be Kidding Me: A Bushtracks Book Review

E! personality and comedienne Chelsea Handler’s latest autobiographical book, Uganda Be Kidding Me. Bushtracks

03/31/2022

Bushtracks is thrilled to announce our merger!

Bushtracks Africa, based in Southern Africa, and Bushtracks Expeditions, based in the USA, have merged together under one brand, and will now operate as a united company.

Bushtracks looks forward to the growth and synergy that will come from the merger in the years ahead. With this in mind, we have refreshed our brandmark to unite under one bold, goliath heron, fittingly symbolic of autonomy, persistence, and longevity.

See more here: https://www.bushtracks.info/

Bushtracks have experienced staff in the United States and Africa and is in a unique position to offer luxury travel throughout the continent, seamless service, and exceptional support when planning and booking any itinerary in Africa.