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Sanctuary Chief’s Camp   What to do when you arrive at the new Maun Airport in Northern Botswana? Grab your stuff and hustle to the terminal, to get ahead of …

  What is it like to spend a day on safari in Botswana?  Mostly it is fun, involving and exciting.  You’re always seeing new things, even if you’ve been on …

Fish Eagle Safaris was an early adopter of digital photography.  Company founder Bert somewhat fondly recalls using a first generation Sony Mavica on a trip to Madagascar in 1998.  It …

As the Covid pandemic retreats worldwide, thoughts turn to resuming life the way we once did, filled with family, friends, togetherness – and travel.  Picking up where we left off …

Fish Eagle Safaris’ owner Bert Duplessis and his team at Fish Eagle Safaris Inc. have been helping people plan their African safari trips for more than 30 years, since 1990.  …

It’s hard to find fault with Cape Town, South Africa’s ‘Mother City’.  After all, it is one of the prettiest cities in the world.  It starts with Table Mountain as …

Over the years we have enjoyed some of our best game-viewing and most memorable sightings in the Linyanti-Selinda-Kwando region of Northern Botswana. Huge concentrations of elephants, leopards mating, lions hunting, …

I experienced the magic of Zarafa some years ago when I traveled to Zarafa by boat from Selinda. It was an interesting and sometimes  adventurous journey.  The skipper on the …

Ask any African wildlife photographer about their favorite animal to photograph and you might be surprised to see how high zebras rank.  These peculiar white and black striped mammals are …

Over dinner some years ago at the River Club upstream from Vic Falls, I was gently corrected about a comment I had made about the Zambezi River.  “It is the …