Nicolette Louw 
ORYX Photo Tours’ first scheduled departure for 2020 was a cultural photography tour to Kenya’s Lake Turkana. Found on the World Heritage list, Lake Turkana is in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province and the Kenyan tribes residing on its shores live a traditional life as hunter-gatherers and fisherman. The people found here form part of the … Read more
Madagascar is often referred to as the “Eighth Continent” because of its exceptionally unique and isolated fauna and flora. This legendary uniqueness is reflected everywhere with its five endemic bird families, quirky lemurs, colourful chameleons, lizards, snakes, frogs and fascinating flora. ORYX hosted two Madagascar photo tours in 2019 and judging by the … Read more
Considered one of the ten “mega-diversity” countries of the world, a Brazil photography tour is an adventure to the vast Pantanal, an endless mix of backwaters, lakes, rivers, gallery forests and forested islands. This is the planet’s largest tropical wetland and is home to some of the most spectacular concentrations of wildlife in South America. … Read more
The Namib Desert is incredible. Malamala is out of this world and Londolozi is absolutely wonderful. The end. The images from this private photo tour, as you will see below, paint a far better picture of the experience than I can with words. However, just so that we are on the same page I’ll provide … Read more
Borneo is the world’s third largest island and conjures up images of a wild forest paradise where Orangutans, gibbons and colourful birds roam the Bornean jungle. Our 2019 photo tour yielded a fantastic tour given our clients feedback, with out of this world orangutan sightings. Repeat ORYX guest Victor Nemeth offers his thoughts on our … Read more
Here at ORYX, we offer a photo tour that offers a rare opportunity to spot and photograph the world’s rarest big cat, the Snow Leopard. In conjunction with the same guides and trackers as BBC’s Planet Earth II, this photo safari takes you into the heart of the Himalayan Mountains, which supports the world’s highest … Read more
Tigers are truly majestic, a jewel in Indian wildlife tourism. ORYX Guest, Shobha Gopinath, details her experience of photographing the regal cat in Ranthambore National Park on recent India photography tour. (This article originally appeared on Shobha Gopinath’s travel blog, “Travel Tales From Here and There.” Noor’s thoughts: The sun is relentless. The temperature has soared to … Read more
