Archive for August, 2011

Lugenda: A story from the Land at the End of the Earth

By Paul Ash | 10 August 2011

It’s a wilderness in every sense of the word: far away and almost forgotten, a place that the Portuguese dubbed “fim do mundo’ – the end of the earth.

Nature takes its fiery course in the shadow of one of the inselberg outcrops that dot the reserve PICTURE: Russell Scott

Nature takes its fiery course in the shadow of one of the inselberg outcrops that dot the reserve PICTURE: Russell Scott

Roving travel writer Janine Stephen wrote us this marvellous story on the Niassa National Reserve which lies in the liquid embrace of the Rovuma and Lugenda rivers in the far north of Mozambique. Read More…

1time drops Maputo

By Paul Ash | 3 August 2011

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1time Airlines has called it quits on the Johannesburg-Maputo route. The airline’s last flight to the Mozambican capital will be on August 31.

The airline says it would need a greater allocation of the number of seats it can sell on the route to make it more viable. Read More…