Ant’s Hill South Africa Ant’s Hill will be sold on a non-exclusive basis from the beginning of December. Ant’s Nest will continue to be sold on an exclusive basis, is currently being refurbished, and by December will have 6 rooms for larger groups. We have a wide variety of activities to offer guests: gentle educational walks, serious hikes, mountain biking across the plains, game drives and horse rides. Ant and Tessa look forward to seeing you at WTM.
	Loisaba Kenya We have had fantastic rain, lovely and green, bringing in loads of game, especially elephants with their young. Our guided bird walks, led by our knowledgeable bird guide Philip, are proving to be extremely popular. The northern European migrants are starting to arrive. Sightings of the rare Arrdvard and Stripped Hyena have been spotted on night game drives. Our resident Greater Kudu family has been extended by the birth of two of the babies. Just hope the leopard leaves them alone!
	The Hide Zimbabwe We are thrilled to announce that The Hide has won the Prestigious AZTA Award for "Best Tented Safari Camp in Zimbabwe" for the 8th time. Our recently launched African Walking Safaris in Hwange National Park has received great interest. Our first walks start early October. Game sightings are on the increase. Our pride of Lion on the concession is growing. Guests on a walk had the privilege of finding four baby cubs hidden in a thicket.
	Wolwedans Namibia Diversification and social responsibility prompted Wolwedans to do a major investment into education and training. The old Brückner residence (where Stephan grew up) has been converted by icon architect Leon Barnard to host ‘The Namibian Institute of Culinary Education’. nice is a Chef finishing school giving students hands-on training in a 150 seat restaurant. 5% of income generated in the restaurant flows into the school, making this vocational project self-sustainable. nice has been operating for 3 months and reservations are essential for what is already regarded as Windhoek's new contemporary social hub. www.nice.com.na

Greystoke Mahale  Tanzania     You walk quietly and listen. You’re instinctively listening out for the sound of chimps, but a loud buzz obscures everything, the deafening song of the huge forest cicadas. So again you walk and look. You find fresh tracks, bits of half eaten food, but no sign of these powerful cousins of ours. Not being able to find the chimps is frustrating at times, but the forest yields so many other surprises wherever you go. As you walk along the narrow tracks, monkeys jump above your head. Even when you cannot see so well, you can hear the barking of vervets or baboons, the chirping noises of red-tails and blue monkeys, or the whistling of colobus. At other times, you see a large forest squirrel darting along a branch or an amazingly colourful turaco bird. Now and again tiny blue duiker crosses your path and immediately disappears into a bush. If you are really quiet you can see red bushbuck or the funny long-nosed elephant shrew with the pattern of a checker-board on his back. Then, when you’ve almost given up you are startled by the alarm “uaaa uaaa” of a chimpanzee group. They’re close by and maybe hunting, but you only see them briefly in the tops of the trees. It’s getting late and you must return to camp; the guide thinks they’ll still be there tomorrow as their favourite fruit is abundant all around. The forest settles down to its usual noises, light rain rustling the leaves, the melodic chirping of tree frogs, the soft steps of a hunting mongoose and the occasional loud territorial calls of bush babies. So you snuggle into your pillow and close your eyes hoping that the chimps are also settling down into their tree nests close by.

Benguerra Lodge Mozambique

Serves 8 Preparation time: 30 mins - 1 hour Cooking time: 30 mins - 1 hour 6 medium onions, chopped 8 cloves of garlic, crushed 2 large green peppers, sliced 27ml olive oil 2 small chillies, chopped 60g flat leaf parsley, chopped Pinch of saffron 450g potatoes, diced 2 or 3 bay leaves 12 peppercorns 4 large juicy tomatoes, chopped 75ml tomato paste 500ml dry white wine 250ml water 450g calamari, cleaned 25 clams or cockles 900g oily fish, such as tuna, swordfish or mackerel 900g white fish, such as sea bass, hake or haddock 225g large raw prawns 24 mussels Freshly ground black pepper 30g fresh coriander, chopped A big cast-iron pot is good for this dish.

1. Slowly sweat off the onion, garlic and green peppers in the olive oil for about 10 minutes. After sweating, cover to stew very gently for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. 2. Add the parsley, chillies, saffron, potatoes, bay leaves, peppercorns, tomatoes, tomato paste, wine and water. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes. 3. Add the calamari and clams, and simmer for another 10 minutes. 4. Add the fish, prawns and mussels in layers. Don't stir as you'll want the fish to cook in the broth. 5. Sprinkle with a heavy dose of black pepper, cover and cook for about 10 minutes, or until the fish is cooked through and the mussels and clams are open. Discard any that don't open. 6. Ladle the stew gently into big bowls and sprinkle with chopped coriander. 7. Serve with bread. We also like to provide some piri piri as a dipping sauce for the bread.

  

The Selinda Botswana

The life blood of The Selinda is a hydrological oddity. The Linyanti Swamps are created by an up-surging fault-line that captures and holds the Kwando river. After decades of drought, the Zibalianja Lagoon (picture left), source of the famous Savuti Channel, was nothing more than a grazing paddock for Zebra & Wildebeest. Spectacular rains & floods have replenished the waterways, and the Savuti, dry since ’82, once again flows.

P.O. Box 131357 Northmead 1511 Gauteng South Africa

Tel: +27 11 425 6413 Fax: +27 11 425 6799 www.classicsafaricamps.com classics@classicsafaricamps.com

Botswana The Selinda Kenya The Funzi Keys Governors' Camps Cheli & Peacock: - Cottars 1920s Camp - Elsa's Kopje - Loisaba Wilderness - Tortilis Camp Mozambique Benguerra Lodge Namibia Mowani Mountain Camp Wolwedans Camps South Africa Ant's Hill Garonga Safari Camp Jaci's Safari Lodge

Tanzania Nomad Safaris: - Greystoke Mahale - Sand Rivers Selous Uganda Uganda Safari Co: - Semliki Safari Lodge Zambia Chongwe River Camp Tongabezi Robin Pope Safaris: - Tena Tena Zimbabwe Big Cave Camp Musango Safari Camp Nduna Safari Lodge The Hide