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My City Safari Competition: winning entry

Congratulations to Claire Campbell, whose photo of Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges River in India was chosen as the winning entry for our My City Safari competition.  Claire took this photo while out on a boat on the river early one morning. The image really encapsulates the idea behind someone’s unique perspective of [...]

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10 things I love about Africa

A few weeks ago I had to sit down and write my first editorial of the new year for Africa Geographic. COP17 had just wound up with the same old pseudo commitment on the part of some countries and regions towards fighting off the consequences of global warming, and rhino killings were set to top [...]

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THE MARA – MUCH MORE THAN JUST WILDEBEEST

In September last year I had a week in the Masai Mara at the height of the migration. To be constantly in the midst of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest was an experience beyond adequate description. At one point we were parked on a slight rise to get the lie of the land and I [...]

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The Congo Chronicles: A Question of Relativity

 ‘I don‘t like work, no one does, but I like what is in the work, the chance to find yourself’. – Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness I arrived back in Yengo after 6 days on the road with a total of 2 showers to find the camp even more luxurious than before: a shower had [...]

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Caption competition 13

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic peak cap. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Anthony Goldman.

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Caption competition 12

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic peak cap. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Jim Griggs.

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Caption competition 11

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic peak cap. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Stan Blumberg.

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Let me ask you a question…

When you read the first line of a travel story about Africa, does your mind wander to fond trips of your own? Can you feel the salty wind on your face when you look at an image of a deserted beach in Namibia? Does inspiration strike when you hear evocative music from East Africa? When [...]

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Caption competition 10

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic peak cap. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Nobby Clarke.

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Caption competition 9

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic peak cap. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Nobby Clarke.

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