If you are interested in African safari travel, you would undoubtedly have come across BBC’s six part series, Kingdom, that recently hit the screens at the end of 2025. A lot of people are using this as marketing leverage, but no safari operator is able to boast the strength of relevance and involvement in the […]
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The last six weeks of the safari season have been full of activity as the Luangwa game of life goes on. We’ve been kept entertained with several wildlife movements – like pieces on a chess board – including wild dog dispersals, an influx of lion and Carmine Bee-eater gathering in an ever changing environment with Sausage […]
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The 2023 season got off to a flying start despite some very late April rains. Full lagoons, flowing tributaries and lush green bush were the result of the excess water as well as some tricky logistics, camp building and road grading for us. The operations team always breathes a sigh of relief when the key […]
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An unlucky puku On an evening patrol drive, I came across a leopard hunting. While she was patiently stalking a small herd of female puku in an opening, a large male puku flushed from his dambo territory patch and ran right across her path. Not looking the gift horse in the mouth, she launched herself […]
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2016 They say you can’t change a leopard’s spots… but unfortunate instances such as snare damage are a real risk to all animals. It is unsure whether this particular male leopard lost his paw to a snare, or was born with this condition, but what we do know is that he has shown some serious […]
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Remote Africa Safaris is lucky to have virtually exclusive access to the amazing Stork Colony in South Luangwa National Park’s Nsefu Sector, during the early season. These yellow-billed storks can number into the thousands in some years. The 2020 boom The rainfall in 2020 was high, causing the banks of the mighty Luangwa River to […]
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An overview Getting back into the Valley each year is really exciting and the team are always itching to get out and see what has changed in the 6 months of our absence. There are few better ways to do this than by air to gain a great overview. One of the big attractions in […]
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The last few days of the 2019 season saw an opportunity for a photographic microlight trip with John, to check on the state of the roads for departure, the state of the Chikoko Trails camps which had been taken down, and to have one last glimpse of the wilderness before months of absence. Below are […]
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Toward the end of the 2019 safari season at Remote Africa Safaris, I was in the back seat of the microlight around sunrise, taking in the last days of being in the Luangwa Valley for many months to come. It is a place that I, along with most people that visit, have come to love […]
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Tafika Camp office has a stunning old photograph of John Coppinger in his microlight with a lion sitting on the bank, looking on. I have always admired this photographed and wondered at how intimately the lives of the wildlife in the Luangwa are entwined with the communities and tourists that venture along the valley floor. […]
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