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“Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer’s paradise… an escapist’s Utopia.” ~ Beryl Markham There is much to be said for this tour of visual and experiential contrasts. I have just returned from leading ORYX’s brand new tour offering to Botswana and I am still in a … Read more
It really is no coincidence at all that Mongolia is known as the land of “eternal blue sky”. Over a 10 day period, Samantha Reinders took a group of ORYX clients to the Western reaches of the country where they were treated to the best a Mongolia photography tour has to offer: landscapes with no … 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. 2018’s photo tour didn’t disappoint and our guests came off with an array of images that captured the epitome that is Borneo. One of our guests, Emma Healey, was … Read more
We’d been sitting with her for some time, time enough for the stoic patience, discipline and focus, the requisites of wildlife photography, to have long since been replaced by cold drinks and warm snacks. “She’ll never go for them” I said, “she wouldn’t even consider taking them on alone” I reaffirmed, doubling down on my … Read more
ORYX’s Vanishing Tribes of the Omo Valley Tour will take us to one of the wildest and most ethnically diverse places on Earth – the Omo Valley. This is a cultural photo experience during which we will interact with several tribal communities who still live almost exactly as they did hundreds of years ago. Sadly, … Read more
I had my passport stamped regularly in my youth. I was born to diplomatic parents across the Atlantic in Chile and with a set of folks who loved to travel as much as they could, I was a frequent flyer even before I celebrated my first birthday. Despite passing through numerous immigration check points in … Read more
When you get to travel to an area that rivals the Omo Valley in photographic opportunities, you know you’ve got a special trip at your disposal! 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 … Read more
Mongolia is a vast central Asian country boasting a rich history, with its most notable inhabitant the famous Genghis Khan whose 13th Century empire spread vast distances across Eurasia. Mongolia remains a wild, sparsely inhabited nation – indeed it is the world’s second largest landlocked country, and has one of the lowest population densities of … Read more
It has been some two hours that we have been journeying down the Kinabatangan River in a fast moving speed boat on our Borneo photo safari. Proboscis monkeys, with their weird floppy noses have watched from their vantage points high above in the tallest of riverside trees as we zipped past, as have a myriad … Read more
A Svalbard Photo Tour in Winter is a unique photo experience that very few photographers have had the pleasure of experiencing. During the months of March and April the light conditions on Svalbard are quite simply magical with soft, pastel shades of orange, pink and blue that bathe the landscapes in an otherworldly light that … Read more
