In Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa, you are given a series of challenges to create working ecosystems on the African veldt.  There are elephants, giraffes, wildebeests, rabbits, zebras, lions, hyenas, vultures and more.  You have to earn points that allow you to create rain and choose more animals to inhabit your world.  You earn points by meeting certain animals requirements.The...

Jack's Camp is one of those amazing places that you never knew existed, but then day dream about forever. I had the amazingly fortunate experience to spend some time in Botswana, Africa recently and Jack's Camp was on of our stops.You can only get in by small private aircraft as the planes have only two options to land- a dirt strip about a half mile from the camp or the Makgadikgadi Sa...

Kids Organics is a line of hair products for afro or curly textured children's hair. Our hair is always in need of moisture so I like to products with good ingredients for my children's hair. The Detangling Moisturizing Hair Lotion has Shea Butter and Extra Virgin Olive Oil in it. These ingredients help to moisturize and improve the condition of their hair.It also does not contain Petro...

Triple action hair grower is a South African product and very useful for hair fall in women and baldness in men.I got this product after watching an advert on TV in South Africa. I always wanted long and beautiful hair but never really  knew which product to use. After seeing the beautiful models on TV with lusturious shining hair which were the ...

At the southern most tip of Africa, one will find the astounding beauty that will make the hair on the back of neck stand on end and your heart forget where home was. The breathtaking Table Mountain will awe ones belief in a creator. Cape Town has come to be known for it's beautiful beaches, wonderful party atmosphere and exquisite accommodation. What most around the world does not know abo...

John Le Carre's best novel, The Constant Gardener, takes a fascinating look deep into the human psyche and a bitter unsparing look at Africa's health care problems. Set in twentieth century Africa, we are taken straight inside the front doors of the corrupt colonial system that hampers so many well meaning efforts to ease the plight of the African peoples.Justin Quayle works for th...

I happened to go to Morocco a few years ago when I was vacationing in southern Spain. We took a quick ferry (about an hour) across the mediterranean and ended up in Tangiers. Compared to the luxurious environment of Marbella where we had been staying in Spain, Tangiers was very impoverished, and we were constantly haggled to follow people with "tour guide" stickers on their shirts. Ev...

This is a great book about a woman, Haregewoin Teferra, who somewhat by chance, after the loss of her own husband and daughter, begins taking in children in Ethiopia who are orphaned due to the AIDS epidemic. As word gets out, she becomes somewhat of a hero in her village, and ends up taken on more children than she can comfortably handle, leading her to turn to adoptions out of the country.The...

My dad and his new wife went on a forty day cruise to Africa in April 2008. While there, my dad brought back a signature mug made by Rosenthal studio line. This is a city cup number 37 designed by Helana Ladeiro. I have never seen such beautiful artwork as this peice in my life. I will always cherish this gift from my father as I know a person can not get something like this unless they are luc...

I  rarely  use  perfumes because I find them sticky especially the oil-based ones. When you live in a country where it is perenially sunny with temperatures raising  to 50 degrees C, one will have second thoughts on whether to put on perfume or not. However, that is not the case with my Bvlgari  Red Tea perfume.   I do  not feel sticky when applying this perfu...

On our most recent visit to the East Rand Traders Square my mom decided to purchase a Egyptian Pharaoh for our little glass table upstairs to liven up the place a little bit. The good thing is that this small King Tut figure head was going for about R450 which seemed reasonable enough considering the quality I actually think we got a bit of a bargain. The Pharaoh feels sooth to the touch and ha...

The truly unique and indigenous soccer sound device of the masses of soccer fans in South Africa...Ladies and gentlemen I give you the Vuvuzela this long elongated piece of plastic looks similar to a flute but that's where the similarities end I'm afraid. The Vuvuzela has a long circular end for effectively dispersing the sound to create the biggest noise possible during the Confederati...