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Travel Insurance is easily available for areas with ‘non-essential-travel’ advisories

There is a widespread misunderstanding about travel insurance being invalidated by government advisories recommending against ‘non-essential travel’ to particular countries. This has become much more of an issue now that many governments have applied these advisories willy-nilly to anything up to the entire planet! The reality is that no insurance is invalidated by such government […]

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Creatures of the Night – The Striped Hyenas of India’s Gujarat

The Striped Hyenas of India’s Gujarat Continuing our theme of extraordinary hyenas, it is always a pleasure to return to a quiet little corner of Gujarat in northwestern India. Driving west of the capital Ahmedabad, fields become visibly more arid and trees and bushes fewer, even despite the influence of the Sardar Sarovar irrigation canal, […]

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20% Discounts on Classic Svalbard 14 and 24 August 2020!

Our friends and partners at WildPhoto have been able to start operating their Svalbard wildlife photography expeditions from the beginning of July on their 12-passenger ship Origo. However, only with Scandinavians and a few other nationalities allowed into Norway at the time. As of 10 July, Norway reopened its borders to travellers from the United […]

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Ethiopia’s Extraordinary Wildlife Tour Report 2020

We started off our Ethiopia’s Extraordinary Wildlife 2020 expedition at Addis Ababa, but soon enough we were riding in our 4×4 Landcruisers out of this huge, ever-growing city and heading downslope into Africa’s Great Rift Valley, a huge crack in the earth’s surface that, amazingly, extends from southern Turkey all the way to southern Africa! […]

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Meet the Hyena Men of Harar with Wild Images

The famous ‘Hyena Men’ of Harar are a unique phenomenon in not just Ethiopia but all of Africa. Night falls over the ancient, medieval city of Harar. Cobbled streets are bustling with the commute of women carrying heavy sacks of produce between the labyrinthine market of the city and dodging children playing football in the […]

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Using the Sony a9 II for Bird & Wildlife Photography: first impressions

Earlier this year I had my first opportunity to use the new Sony a9 II on a bird photography and wildlife photography expedition. Up until then, I had used Canon DSLR gear from my beginnings with digital photography in 2003 and before that Nikon SLRs in the ‘age of film’. Here is a short review […]

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Learn about the Migration Patterns of Zebra Across Botswana with Africa Geographic and Wild Images

Recently Wild Images General Manager and Principal Photographer Inger Vandyke collaborated with Africa Geographic to produce a story on the migrations of Zebra across Botswana. To view her image and other incredible photos, plus learn about the movements of one of our favourite African creatures, check this link https://africageographic.com/stories/botswanas-zebra-migrations/ Some stunning imagery here and a […]

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The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and Wild Images tours

To all our Wild Images clients and friends: The novel coronavirus pandemic is having a profound effect on many aspects of our lives, and not just on international travel. At the present time, we still cannot be sure when tours to most destinations will be able to resume, but some borders are now starting to […]

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Missed our Virtual Safari in Brazil’s Pantanal? Watch it here!

A huge thank you today to all of the guests on our Wild Images Virtual Safari in Brazil’s Pantanal. We did manage to stream the talk live by Facebook this week but we are happy to share it here with you as well! Grab a coffee/beer/glass of wine or your favourite drink and join us.

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Virtual Photo Tour – Brazil’s Pantanal

We are excited to announce the fourth in our series of Virtual Safari Webinars, ‘Brazil’s Pantanal’ this week. It will take place in Thursday 25 June 2020 at 2.00pm GMT. The Pantanal is a vast area of seasonally flooded marshes and grassland, with patches of gallery forest here and there, shared between mostly Brazil, Paraguay […]

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