South Africa's flag carrier, South African Airways (SAA) , has won two awards from two prestigious U.S. travel magazines. Business Traveler magazine has awarded SAA with the "Best Airline to Africa" and "Best Business Class in Africa" awards, while Global Traveler magazine has named South African Airways as "Best Airline in Africa" and "Best Sparkling Wine in Business Class".
Global Traveler ’s award for "Best Sparkling Wine in Business Class" went to SAA for its Philip Jonker Entheos Brut NV.
South African Airways is flying daily nonstop from the U.S. to South Africa with morning departures from New York's JFK Airport and afternoon direct services from Washington Dulles (with a stop in Dakar, Senegal).
South African Airways' network is featuring seamless connections to nearly 20 destinations within South Africa and to more than 25 cities across the rest of the continent. As a Star Alliance member, South African Airways is able to offer its customers 1,290 destinations in 189 countries and more than 21,000 flights daily, including convenient connections from more than 25 cities in the U.S. through code share service with Star Alliance member United Airlines.
05 January 2012
Book by April 2012 & safe 20% - Uganda volunteering projects, Bwindi National Park
Country: Uganda
Departures: 2012: 24 Jan, 21 Feb, 20 Mar, 17 Apr, 15 May, 12 Jun, 10 Jul, 7 Aug, 4 Sep, 2 Oct, 30 Oct, 27 Nov, 18 Dec
Price: Prices vary from £995 for two weeks to £3350 for six months and price includes: a tailored volunteer placement, accommodation, food (3 meals a day), orientation, local mobile phone sim card, task guidance and placement materials, support, free internet access, a t-shirt, airport transfers, local transport and much more. A £350 deposit is required and the full balance must be paid at least eight weeks before departure. Accept are the following currencies: Pound Sterling, US Dollar and the Euro.
If you're an adventurous and ambitious soul and if you'd enjoy being one of Big Beyond Pioneers' intrepid travellers book this volunteering trip before April 2012, travel within the year and save 20%!
What's the opportunity?
Big Beyond Pioneers offers enthusiastic and adventurous volunteers the incredible opportunity to live and work next to the vibrant African jungle of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in the far southwest corner of Uganda and help the local Bwindi Community and ancient Pygmy Batwa Tribe. It’s an incredible place where families of one of the world’s most endangered primates - the incredible Mountain Gorillas will become your neighbours. Green, lush, mountainous and remote, it’s not the dry dusty Africa some know and you’ll be travelling away from the masses to somewhere you’ll really enjoy living.
What will I be doing?
As a volunteer you will work across a range of exciting projects. All of Big Beyond Pioneers' Uganda based projects are aimed at tackling conservation and development goals of the local Bwindi area and are led by local community groups. Our volunteers can choose to build their skills in a particular field or alternatively work across a number of skills in a chosen project category. They then liaise with you to customise your placement appropriate to your particular skills and interests, as well as the needs of the local community at that time. Their current volunteer placements in Uganda include, but are not limited to: Community Enterprise, Health and Wellbeing, Cultures of Bwindi, Events Management, Marketing, Arts and Drama, Community Research and Mapping, Sports and Fitness, Community Farming, Teaching, Wildlife and Environment and Bwindi Kids and Rural Schools. The local community where Big Beyond Pioneers work are trying to build pride in the protection of Bwindi by benefitting from its conservation through income, quality education, improved agricultural practices and in general, promoting better and more enjoyable ways of life.
Departures: 2012: 24 Jan, 21 Feb, 20 Mar, 17 Apr, 15 May, 12 Jun, 10 Jul, 7 Aug, 4 Sep, 2 Oct, 30 Oct, 27 Nov, 18 Dec
Price: Prices vary from £995 for two weeks to £3350 for six months and price includes: a tailored volunteer placement, accommodation, food (3 meals a day), orientation, local mobile phone sim card, task guidance and placement materials, support, free internet access, a t-shirt, airport transfers, local transport and much more. A £350 deposit is required and the full balance must be paid at least eight weeks before departure. Accept are the following currencies: Pound Sterling, US Dollar and the Euro.
If you're an adventurous and ambitious soul and if you'd enjoy being one of Big Beyond Pioneers' intrepid travellers book this volunteering trip before April 2012, travel within the year and save 20%!
What's the opportunity?
Big Beyond Pioneers offers enthusiastic and adventurous volunteers the incredible opportunity to live and work next to the vibrant African jungle of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in the far southwest corner of Uganda and help the local Bwindi Community and ancient Pygmy Batwa Tribe. It’s an incredible place where families of one of the world’s most endangered primates - the incredible Mountain Gorillas will become your neighbours. Green, lush, mountainous and remote, it’s not the dry dusty Africa some know and you’ll be travelling away from the masses to somewhere you’ll really enjoy living.
What will I be doing?
As a volunteer you will work across a range of exciting projects. All of Big Beyond Pioneers' Uganda based projects are aimed at tackling conservation and development goals of the local Bwindi area and are led by local community groups. Our volunteers can choose to build their skills in a particular field or alternatively work across a number of skills in a chosen project category. They then liaise with you to customise your placement appropriate to your particular skills and interests, as well as the needs of the local community at that time. Their current volunteer placements in Uganda include, but are not limited to: Community Enterprise, Health and Wellbeing, Cultures of Bwindi, Events Management, Marketing, Arts and Drama, Community Research and Mapping, Sports and Fitness, Community Farming, Teaching, Wildlife and Environment and Bwindi Kids and Rural Schools. The local community where Big Beyond Pioneers work are trying to build pride in the protection of Bwindi by benefitting from its conservation through income, quality education, improved agricultural practices and in general, promoting better and more enjoyable ways of life.
04 January 2012
EgyptAir to temporary reduce Cairo <> New York service
Egypt's national carrier, EgyptAir, is temporary reducing the number of return services between Cairo and JFK Airport in New York. Between 12 Jan 2012 till 30 April 2012 the airline will operate the route five times a week instead of daily.
EgyptAir, a member of the Star Alliance, is Africa's largest airline. The airline's customers are able to reach 1160 destinations in 181 countries all over the globe. Via Cairo International Airport, the main hub of the airline, EgyptAir is flying to 17 destinations in Africa, including Entebbe (Uganga) and Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania) in East Africa, as well as Johannesburg in South Africa.
EgyptAir, a member of the Star Alliance, is Africa's largest airline. The airline's customers are able to reach 1160 destinations in 181 countries all over the globe. Via Cairo International Airport, the main hub of the airline, EgyptAir is flying to 17 destinations in Africa, including Entebbe (Uganga) and Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania) in East Africa, as well as Johannesburg in South Africa.
Uganda: 14 great ways to recycle plastic bottles (video)
UK-based international development charity organisation Send a cow produced the interesting video below in which Lorna, a woman from Kumi in Uganda, explains how they re-use plastic bottles on their small rural farm. From solar lights to drip irrigation, the bottles are obviously very useful in almost all aspects of life. Thumbs up!
The Walk - a walk through the streets of Cape Town (video)
We have posted quite a number of Cape Town videos on the blog over the last couple of month, but this one below is probably the most "different" one.
Not only because of the camera's perspective and the filter used, but also the focus and the music (Springbok Nude Girls!) are super different to those "shiny" & "touristy" Cape Town vids we usually find on the net and post on the blog. Nothing against the more "normal" videos - we love them - but this one is so different that we somehow like it even more! Kudos Milton Schorr!
Not only because of the camera's perspective and the filter used, but also the focus and the music (Springbok Nude Girls!) are super different to those "shiny" & "touristy" Cape Town vids we usually find on the net and post on the blog. Nothing against the more "normal" videos - we love them - but this one is so different that we somehow like it even more! Kudos Milton Schorr!
The Walk from Milton Schorr on Vimeo.
03 January 2012
To visit Namibia is one of Lonely Planet's "Top 10 things to do in 2012"
Good news for the Namibian tourism industry. To visit Namibia's protected coastline is among Lonely Planet's "Top 10 things to do in 2012"!
3. Visit Namibia’s protected coastThe other 9 of Lonely Planet's "Top 10 things to do in 2012" are:
Namibia is a special country, blessed with an abundance of easy-to-spot wildlife, beautiful desert scenery and vast, wide open spaces. This year you can visit the epic Namibian coastline in the knowledge that the entire Atlantic shore is now part of one of the world’s largest protected areas, encompassing four parks: the Sperregebiet National Park, Namib Naukluft Park, newly created Dorob National Park and the infamous Skeleton Coast protected area. Many areas, especially in the south, can be explored independently – though ideally with your own wheels – but getting into serious Skeleton Coast wilderness requires a charter flight and deep pockets.
- Honour Scott’s Polar Centenary (United Kingdom/Antartica)
- Follow Napoleon across Russia (Moscow)
- Visit Namibia’s protected coast (Namib-Skeleton Coast National Park)
- Go football crazy in Poland and Ukraine (Euro 2012)
- Chase Australia’s Top End eclipse (Australia)
- Meet the Maid of Orleans on her 600th birthday (Joan of Arc)
- Discover a new Middle East (Middle East)
- Explore Maribor’s Old Town (Slovenia)
- Play arcade classics at the Smithsonian (Washington DC)
- Check out Korea’s Expo (Yeosu)
Emirates becomes by far London Heathrow’s largest A380 operator
Effective from 25 March 2012, Emirates will become by far London Heathrow’s largest A380 operator. The airline, based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, will from March 2012 offer four daily flights to London in the UK with the world's largest passenger airliner.
The deployment means four of Emirates’ five daily Heathrow flights will be served by the A380 – twice as many as any other carrier.
The Emirates’ A380 offers 14 flat-bed First Class Private Suites with electrically operated doors and 76 fully-flat mini-pods in Business Class - all with aisle access - on the upper deck. Downstairs, there are 427 comfortable contoured seats in Economy Class, spread across four separate cabins.
Passengers on Emirates' A380 flights have a choice of over 1200 channels of films, television programmes, music and games. A personal satellite phone is furthermore fitted to each seat, which also carries a seat-back sms and email service, along with seat to seat calling and a personal picture viewing facility.
The deployment means four of Emirates’ five daily Heathrow flights will be served by the A380 – twice as many as any other carrier.
The Emirates’ A380 offers 14 flat-bed First Class Private Suites with electrically operated doors and 76 fully-flat mini-pods in Business Class - all with aisle access - on the upper deck. Downstairs, there are 427 comfortable contoured seats in Economy Class, spread across four separate cabins.
Passengers on Emirates' A380 flights have a choice of over 1200 channels of films, television programmes, music and games. A personal satellite phone is furthermore fitted to each seat, which also carries a seat-back sms and email service, along with seat to seat calling and a personal picture viewing facility.
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