The Travel Butlers Blog
Air Namibia has launched three new regional routes to Harare (Zimbabwe), Ondjiva (Angola) and Gaborone (Botswana). The routes will add significant capacity to the airline’s regional operations. Flights will operate between: Windhoek and Harare four times a week, Windhoek and Ondjiva three times a week and Windhoek and Gaborone three times a week. Unfortunately it […] Read More
The Singita School of Cooking (SSC) in the Kruger National Park has enrolled its fifth intake of students to commence their training as aspirant chefs. These young men and women from surrounding rural communities on the outskirts of the Park, have shown a real passion for cooking, having been selected for their special aptitude for […] Read More
Starting 1st of May 2012, Precision Air is set to make a come back to the popular tourist city of Arusha in Northern Tanzania. The Airline had withdrawn flights from Arusha Airport folling the need for a runway extention which has finally been completed by the Tanzanian Airports Authority TAA. Clients going on safari can […] Read More
The United States Government has indicated its commitment to grant Kenya the green light to start direct flights to America, provided the upgrades at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) are done according to international standards. It is possible that these flights could start in the next couple of months. US Ambassador to Kenya, Scott […] Read More
Following on from our review of the top-rated 3* and 4* safari lodges, this time it’s the turn of the 5* properties. Our number monkey has again checked to make sure that we have not included any places that only have a handful of votes as this would skew the results, and the 5* safari […] Read More
It is the Awards Season in the music and film industries at the moment, so we thought that this would be a good time to have a look at the ratings that our guests have given to the various places they have stayed at over the past year or so and see who comes top […] Read More
Anyone who saw the fascinating BBC documentary on Sunday where Ben Fogle went swimming with crocodiles in Botswana would have probably had one of two reactions… either “he must be mad!” or “Great! where can I do that??” Just for the record, I am very much in the “he must be mad!” camp….if you live […] Read More
Occasionally we find that it can be difficult to get accommodation in some parts of South Africa during the South African School holidays….after all, it is not only visitors from overseas who want to visit Kruger, Durban or the Garden Route! Given this, we thought it might be useful for people from other countries to […] Read More
Travel Butlers were delighted to have our 6 Night Mobile Safari Adventure in Kenya featured in yesterday’s Sunday Times Travel Section (UK) as one of the best 100 holidays in the world for 2012. This great trip was the top placed african safari holiday, and was one of only seven wildlife holidays to be featured […] Read More
Mabula Private Game Reserve in the Waterberg has introduced two male cheetah, transported from Sanbona Wildlife Reserve in the Western Cape. This is the first time cheetah have been introduced to the reserve. Upon arrival in the reserve, the two animals spent a few weeks in a boma where they were carefully monitored by Reserve […] Read More
