Londolozi’s Children Love Their School Holidays
During the school holidays our working staff village is livened up with chatter and laughter of excited kids coming to visit family members for the holidays. Every morning during their stay, …
During the school holidays our working staff village is livened up with chatter and laughter of excited kids coming to visit family members for the holidays. Every morning during their stay, …
Cars pile up along the highway in the direction of the V&A waterfront en-route to the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town. I turn on my car radio to hear the …
You don’t have to be a Nobel prizewinner to create ideas that will contribute to planet Earth’s success. Ellen MacArthur was a young sailor before she founded an organisation that …
“The bushveld is a place where the human element indeed shrinks into utter insignificance, and grips you and subdues you and makes you one with yourself” – Jan Christiaan Smuts, …
“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners… Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing… not moving toward excellence.” – Dennis …
Terrified. That’s how Jessica MacLarty felt the day she first walked onto Varty deck to meet her guests. That was 2009, and it was her debut as a game ranger …
“Omne trium perfectum” – everything that comes in threes is perfect Winter has set in at Londolozi, and while our days are still lovely and warm, the evenings are cold …
“Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Two weeks ago, working on …
What would Nelson Mandela have thought about a women’s cooperative at Londolozi? I found myself asking that question – not because I was feeling particularly philosophical or political – but …
Originally from Newlands in Cape Town, James Tyrrell (JT) has been working as a ranger at Londolozi for almost four years. Many readers will know him for his wistful documentation …
Jacada Travel speaks to Bronwyn Varty of Londolozi about gaining a deeper reverence for wildlife, connecting with the local Shangaan people and Nelson Mandela’s visits to the property. On the banks …
“Pinotage is the juice extracted from women’s tongues and lion’s hearts. After having a sufficient quantity one can talk forever and fight the devil” – Kanonkop Wine Estate Everyone wants …
After growing up on his family’s private game reserve in South Africa, Boyd Varty now lives and works at the sanctuary as a conservationist and an advocate for his native country. His …
“I only drink Champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it …
As the world is changing and humans continue to populate this world, as we pollute the lands, the air as well as destroy populations of natures great beings, will we …