I am in love with panoramic views. This shot, captured and composed from on top of Table Mountain, provides a perfect view of downtown Cape Town in the week leading up to the 2010 World Cup. With the mountains in the right sloping down towards the harbor and waterfront on the left, you get a [...]
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Meet the ASC Team – Jeff
Jeff is a twenty-year veteran of the travel industry. He began his travel career at the age of 8, memorizing seating configurations on the newly launched 747′s and creating a fantasy airline (NorthWard Air), complete with schedules, route maps and fleet plans. He went on to book all of his family’s holidays, college friends’ years abroad, [...]
ASC Pic of the Week – Night Falls
This week, we’re going in a slightly different direction with our choice of photo of the week. This shot, caught as the sun sets on the tip of the African continent in Cape Town, really captures an energy that to me typifies Africa and all it has to offer. The tree in the foreground, while [...]
ASC Pic of the Week – Lounging Cubs
For me, this shot defines Africa. As the sun sets overhead, casting a beautiful red shadow on a rocky outcrop, a group of lion cubs sits peacefully looking off into the distance. It’s incredible to think that these cute little animals will one day grow into the kings of the savannah. Robert, an ASC alum, [...]
Video of the Week: Hippo Saves Babies
If this video doesn’t make you want to pack up and head out on safari immediately, I don’t know what will. This is the kind of footage that you would expect from a Disney movie; but lo and behold, nature surprises us once again. While out in the bush in Tanzania, a lucky group witnessed [...]
ASC Pic of the Week: Trumpeting Elephant
The first time I saw this picture, my initial thought was that it had to be fake. It just looks too perfect. This is the kind of scene you imagine seeing in a movie, as the elephant rears up and bellows across the grassland for everyone to hear. The fact that Robert, a former ASC [...]
Meet the ASC Team – Vanessa
Vanessa was lucky enough to travel extensively as a girl, including road trips with college friends across Namibia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and a few years overseas in Europe and the United States. These trips instilled a love for travel in her, and a deep understanding of what people want when they visit a country. Vanessa also had a desire to share [...]
ASC on Facebook
For all you safari enthusiasts, African Safari Consultants is also on Facebook! Our Facebook fan page, along with our Twitter account, is your go-to source for all the interesting safari news floating around the internet and incredible pictures straight from the bush. Click the link (http://www.facebook.com/pages/African-Safari-Consultants/162045410483521?ref=ts) to check out the page, and make sure to [...]
Amazing Specials at Kenya’s Governors’ Camp
For 2011 the Governors’ Camp — a longtime ASC favorite in Kenya — has kept their accommodations rates pricing the same as for 2010. Additionally, the Camp has also continued it’s special offers for 2011 and added a new family offer, an upgrade offer, and a fantastic discount on hot air balloon safaris in the [...]
Meet the ASC Team – Neil
Neil was lucky enough to grow up in Southern Africa and travel extensively as a boy: family safaris in Kruger National Park, beach holidays on the whale coast in Hermanus, and trout fishing in the Drakensberg Mountains composed his exciting childhood. Travel stuck with Neil, and his love of airplanes and the aviation industry turned [...]
Pics of the Day: Leopard Kills Baby Elephant
Leopard kills baby elephant in Sabi Sands game reserve in South Africa
Meet the ASC Team – Liesl
Before discovering the wonderful world of travel, Liesl worked extensively in the event planning industry where she learned how to get things done in a pressure-filled environment. Seeing the pivotal role and bright future that tourism had in South Africa, Liesl decided to launch her own travel company. It grew, merged, and is now a thriving [...]
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