The Travel Butlers Blog
Six women each live for a month with six different tribes all over the world. In this upcoming episode of Tribal Wives, Yvonne Power, a 36-year-old single working mother of three, goes to live with the Himba in Namibia. The Himba are a semi-nomadic tribe of pastoralists who live on the harsh sun-baked plains of […] Read More
Travel Butlers are delighted to offer a fantastic price for guests interested in staying at Fugitives’ Drift Lodge and Guest House, set in the heart of the KwaZulu-Natal Battlefields. For the month of July 2008 only, guests booking their stay through Travel Butlers will pay just R1,000 per person per night at the Lodge, including […] Read More
Day visitors to the Kruger National Park will again be able to book ahead of time to secure their entrance to South Africa’s most well known National Park. Visitors who wish to use this facility should be advised that advanced bookings can be made no less than one day prior to date of arrival at the […] Read More
Our partners in Hermanus and Gansbaai are delight to confirm that the slightly earlier than normal arrival of whales into the bay has meant they are able to start their boat based whale watching trips this week. The area is world renowned as one of the best places anywhere to see the the Southern Right Whale, […] Read More
All travellers to Zimbabwe are advised that no payments can by made by credit card at all. The banks have suspended all credit card transactions until they can introduce new systems, as their equipment is no longer able to handle the billions of local currency involved in even the smallest of transactions. Clients must carry […] Read More
Only a short 2 hour flight from Jo’burg, a trip to Victoria Falls is certainly memorable. One of the 7 Wonders of the World, the sheer noise of the Falls as they cascade over the edge into the deep gorge is deafening, and the misty clouds of spray, occasionally broken by rainbows, are visible from […] Read More
At the recent Good Safari Guide Awards ceremony, which took place in Durban on May 8th 2008, the prestigious Singita Boulders Lodge walked away with the Best Safari Property in Africa award, and Notten’s Bush Camp won the Runner Up Best Safari Property in Africa award. The Good Safari Guide is an independent directory of […] Read More
Thanda Private Game Reserve in northern KwaZulu-Natal has won two prestigious awards at this year’s World Travel Awards: South Africa’s leading safari lodge, and Africa’s leading luxury lodge which it won for the 2nd consecutive year. The news comes just 6 months after Thanda was voted ‘luxury individual hotel, lodge or resort offering best overall product and […] Read More
Following the success of the short notice offer that we ran with Lion Sands in April, we are delighted to be able to confirm a new Lion Sands Sort Notice Offer for May, June, and July 2008. Vistors travelling in the next 3 months can save 25% vs the published price, and stay at this […] Read More
As our current photo competition begins to draw to a close (last day for entries is 31st May), we have been looking through the entries and began to think about the difficult task of judging the winners of the cases of wine supplied by SA Wines Online. There are a number of outstanding photos taken […] Read More
