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Botswana – Savute & Khwai with Penny Robartes

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It always produces feelings of excitement and anticipation when I welcome my guests to possibly their first time to the country, region or even just on a photo tour with me. The possibilities of what we will experience, see and photograph together are right before everyone's eyes as we greet each and meet those who ... Read more
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Wildlife of the Pantanal Photo Tour 2022 – From a Guest’s Perspective

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In August 2022 I attended the ORYX Brazil - Wildlife of the Pantanal Photo Tour. Our ORYX guide was Dale Morris. I have taken several trips with Dale, and he always does a top-notch job. He is constantly in the background making sure of every detail, so guests have the best time and safest trip. ... Read more
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Masai Mara’s Great Wildebeest Migration with Penny Robartes

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In August 2022, I led my Kenya – Best of the Mara Migration Photo Tour which took my guests and I to Kenya’s Masai Mara for a week of wildlife photography and a whirlwind of sightings and experiences. As calendar months go, the annual Great Migration typically reaches the plains of the Masai Mara from ... Read more
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Sabi Sabi Game Reserve with Penny Robartes

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After saying farewell to three of the four guests on my Sabi Sands: The Big 5 Photo Tour, so began my remaining guest's private photo tour where we would spend an additional night at Inyati before getting a transfer the following morning to our next location; Sabi Sabi Game Reserve. It was quite strange heading back ... Read more
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Sabi Sand: Big 5 Photo Tour with Penny Robartes

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This new South Africa Photo Tour by ORYX could not have started on a more positive and upbeat note. Out of my small group of four guests, three were return guests with me not having seen the one gentleman since 2019. It was a happy reunion all round, and our new guest was enveloped into ... Read more
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Trip Report – Madikwe: Big 5 & Hides Photo Tour 2022

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“Anything specific that you are interested in photographing?” I asked “Wild dogs!” they all replied. It’s a question I ask at the start of every photo tour and at most destinations this particular answer leaves me quite perturbed as wild dogs can be notoriously difficult to find, fortunately on ORYX's Madikwe Photo Tour, this is ... Read more
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Gorilla & Chimpanzee Trekking in Uganda with Marius Coetzee

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Welcome to one of Africa’s most celebrated wildlife areas! Marius has his guests spent 14-days on a photographic adventure to Churchill’s “Pearl of Africa” – Uganda. The Uganda Photo Tour began with an arrival day in the tropical, lakeshore town of Entebbe. Entebbe is Uganda’s former capital, and is a pleasant place with leafy gardens and ... Read more
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Private Photo Tour to MalaMala Game Reserve with Daniel Bailey

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I have recently returned from a six-night private ORYX photo tour to the world-renowned MalaMala Game Reserve, in South Africa. From the 19th to 25th April 2022, I led a private photo tour for a guest to MalaMala. The goal for my client was to learn more about camera settings, work on her composition and ... Read more
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Tanzania & Kenya Great Wildebeest Migration Photo Tours

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The Great Migration sees over 1.5 million Wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of Zebra and gazelles traverse a continuous circular route from Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park and Kenya’s Masai Mara ecosystem in search of water and nutritious grazing. This event is awe-inspiring with the mere numbers alone of the great herds. The great columns of ... Read more
MalaMala Game Reserve

Private Photo Tour to MalaMala : Storytelling in South Africa

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Once again MalaMala Game Reserve lived up to its reputation of providing some finest game viewing opportunities in Southern Africa. The game drive excursions produced multiple memorable sightings of Africa’s most sought-after wildlife species. On this private ORYX photo tour, I led a guest on a three-day tour to MalaMala Game Reserve, sandwiched between the ... Read more
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