Good Nature Travel Blog

  • African Safaris

    6 Reasons to Go on a Botswana Safari During the Green Season

    Dec 30, 2025 · Jon Jared

    A Botswana safari during the green season ticks all the right boxes: optimal wildlife viewing, stays in secluded and luxurious safari camps and opportunities to photograph Southern Africa at its most lush.

  • African Safaris

    Traveling to Victoria Falls—5 Facts to Know Before You Go

    Aug 5, 2025 · Emily Goodheart

    Victoria Falls: The Eden of Africa Scottish explorer David Livingstone first recorded Victoria Falls in 1855, writing that he was struck by “scenes so lovely they must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.” Rising spray creates shimmering rainbows and sustains a lush rainforest microclimate along the basalt canyon walls.

  • African Safaris

    Lion Teeth Tell Tales

    Oct 18, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Staggering natural wonders—such as Victoria Falls, considered to be the world’s biggest curtain of falling water (not because of a singular dimension, such as height or width, but because of all dimensions taken into account, including flow rate)—and a massive network of remote national parks where you can encounter most of Africa’s iconic wildlife…

  • African Safaris

    African Wild Dogs and the Necessity of Wildlife Corridors

    Jun 8, 2021 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Larger than Austria and Germany combined and nearly twice as big as the United Kingdom, the enormous KAZA (Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area) lies in the Kavango and Zambezi River Basins where Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe converge.

  • Travel Tips

    See the Natural Wonders of the World in 2021

    Dec 29, 2020 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    It’s time to say farewell to 2020; and for many of us, we’re happy to do it—perhaps more so than for any other year we’ve ever experienced. For those smitten with wanderlust, 2020 was definitely the “year of lost travels” and missed opportunities for connecting with other people and cultures around the globe.

  • African Safaris

    Video: Nature’s Force in Full View at Victoria Falls

    Oct 13, 2020 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Nature is powerful. It exists by the rules that it alone sets, and it progresses on its own trajectory. Its force is far stronger than we are. The coronavirus pandemic has certainly shown us and taught us that. And one of the places where nature makes its power most manifest is in a waterfall.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    What are the 7 Natural Wonders in YOUR World?

    Sep 9, 2011 · Wendy Redal

    “Mosi oa Tunya” — the Smoke that Thunders. That’s the name the local Kololo tribe gave to Victoria Falls, the mile-wide curtain of falling water that plunges 350 feet over a basalt cliff into the turbulent Zambezi Gorge. During the dry season, the falls are a series of individual cataracts.