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		*Refer This Site to a Friend* Old Africa Magazine - We publish stories, personal memories, and vintage photographs to recapture East Africa's past. The stories in Old Africa will transport readers to an earlier era from the time of Western interest and exploration in the area up to the mid-1960s. Read more. *Enjoy a Safari In the Heart of Africa -* For a truly inspiring and memorable adventure vacation, taking a Safari holiday in Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia or Zimbabwe, is the experience of a lifetime. Our firm through our travel "partner" organizes pre-arranged or customized tours of Africa, where you can enjoy wildlife and the culture of Africa at its best. We cater especially for small groups. More details. *Visiting Cape Town in South Africa* - Delamere Travel now provides a link to the most advanced database of hotels, holiday accommodation, safari parks, plus more. This database covers Cape Town, plus other major tourist centres in South Africa. Visit our database. *African Safari Club* - For over 40 years African Safari Club, has specialised in arranging holidays to Kenya and, more recently, Nile River Cruises. From small beginnings the group now control five hotels on the Kenyan coast and six safari lodges and camps. We have our own transfer and safari vehicles as well as a fleet of light aircraft to fly you directly to the wilderness game reserves from our private airstrip. Read more. *Vacations In Southern Africa* - Delamere Travel offers the widest choice of holidays and holiday accommodation in South Africa and Southern Africa. For more details, click here. *Premier South Africa Accommodation Guide* - Choose your South Africa travel destination then select from a wide range of accommodation. We offer the finest luxury 5-star Hotels, Resorts, Villas, Guest Houses, Apartments, Self Catering accommodation and Bed & Breakfast accommodation in South Africa as well as budget accommodation to fit your travel plans. Sleeping-OUT, the premier South Africa accommodation guide. *Go2Africa.com* is a comprehensive travel guide with recommended tours and packages to East and Southern Africa. Our travel consultants will help ensure that you plan a perfect African holiday experience. Visit this site. Or please contact us for more information about Cape Town and environs as our senior partner and his wife lived in this area for over 30 years. Organized Trips & Tours to Africa - Our Partner is now specialising in Africa travel. This site offers online booking and information for travel services to the top destinations in Africa including South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt, Seychelles, Zimbabwe and Uganda. Discount customised vacation tours in South Africa. Book online and save *Amatikulu Tours* - This travel company offers adventures and game reserve accommodation in Southern Africa. Tours, safaris, hotels, and scuba diving, plan your dream holiday in Africa. Advice from professional tour guides. Visit the site of African Safari. *Visit the Okavango Swamp in Botswana* - The whole question of the future of the Okavango Swamp and its indigenous people is now at the centre of a vibrant southern African debate. The demand for water from the Okavango has led to plans to dam the river in Angola or in Namibia; the need for grazing for Botswana cattle has led to efforts to eliminate the tsetse fly; and hence the encroachment of domestic animals on wilderness areas. To view some recent photographs of Okavango Swamps, the Chobe Reserve, and the Crocodile Camp, and for arrangements to visit most countries in Africa, Click here for Tours & Safaris in Africa *The Official Website of the* Kenya Tourist Board. See some great scenes and tourist spots, Masai Mara Reserve, Amboseli National Park, The Delamere Camp, Dodori National Reserve, Kilimanjaro, plus many more beautiful places. For a list of all National Parks and Reserves in Kenya, click here, and for information on booking tours and vacations in Kenya contact Delamere Travel. Take a 360° panaramic view of the Delamere and Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley) family graves at Elmenteita, in the Soysambu Wildlife Sanctuary, Kenya, click here. One of the family graves holds the remains of Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Lord Delamere (The Great White Hunter) (1870-1931) (often misspelled, Lord Delemere), who was the nephew of Henrietta Charlotte Cholmondeley (1835 - ? ) only sister of Hugh's father, Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Lord Delamere (1811-1887), of Vale Royal, Cheshire, England, and Hugh Jnrs, mother, Augusta Emily Hamilton-Seymour (1835-1911). If you would like a copy of the portrait of Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Lord Delamere (we have an enlarged copy now posted in our Board Room in Cape Town) go to this link of the National Portrait Gallery in London ( inform them that Margaret Hebdon (nee Green) referred you). Also on the web site of the Kenya Tourist Board you also have a choice of many other 360° views of this marvelous country of Kenya, including the Amboseli National Park, one of our favourites. *Many of our clients have requested a good source for buying a print or painting of Lord Delamere* of Vale Royal, Cheshire, England. We have located a reliable source and suggest you go to the web site of Easy Art based in England and select in the search box "Lord Delamere" in the entire range of art work, and they currently have a beautiful hand-coloured restrike etching of Hugh Cholmondeley 2nd Baron Delamere 1811-1887, with Vale Royal in the background, by Diana Calvert, ID # 35782. Hugh was one of the ancestors of the founder of the Delamere Group. Click here. *This portrait of Lord Delamere* hangs on the wall of the boardroom of the Delamere Group, and is placed alongside a portrait of another great leader in the development of the African continent, Cecil Rhodes. We invite you to read the biography of Cecil Rhodes skillfully written by our friend Sarah Gertrude Millin. A biography and history of Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Lord Delamere of Vale Royal, Cheshire, England, is in the final draft stage and will be published by the Delamere Group in the near future. The book also includes a detailed history of King Edward 1st (Ruled 1272-1307) to King Henry 4th (Ruled 1399-1413) and the wars between England and Wales, plus the establishment of the Great Abbey at Vale Royal in 1330 AD and the demise of the great house at Vale Royal, Delamere Forest, Cheshire, England, home of the Vale Royal branch of the Cholmondeley family up until 1901 when Hugh Cholmondeley 3rd Lord Delamere (1870-1931) moved to Kenya and abandoned the property at Vale Royal. Today the Great House is part of the golf club premises of Vale Royal Golf Club and we are pleased to report that the original Great Hall, now used as a restaurant, was recently visited by our Senior Partner, Dr. Geoffrey Hebdon, and is very similar to when Hugh Cholmonderley, 2nd Lord Delamere (1811-1887) lived there. See this photo researched by our senior photographer. Read also this brief report about Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Lord Delamere. The Delamere Group will announce in their monthly Newsletter when this book is released and where you can buy a copy. (See also our web page that covers tours of Wales and the Welsh Castles, especially Denbigh Castle, and the link to Hugh Cholmondeley 2nd Lord Delamere, click here.) *Read this fascinating account of the Kenya Happy Valley crowd* - Happy Valley, a name that symbolised a place, the White Highlands; a time, the period between the two world wars; and a community, the European settlers under the Union Jack (also called the Happy Valley Set). And mainly, a lifestyle: the ex-pats lived a never-ending and unrestrained celebration where no human instinct was without satisfaction. We suggest that you read this intriguing report, read more. Also experience the surroundings and locations of the brilliant book White Mischief -This novel is a true-life murder mystery set in 1930's Kenyan highlands and showing the dissolute life of the white overseer class there; available as a book and as a feature film directed by Michael Radford based on the novel by James Fox. Actors in the movie include, Greta Scacchi, Joss Ackland, Charles Dance and Hugh Grant. If you wish to review or purchase the book, or buy the DVD White Mischief visit this link. *Book on Kenyan History* - This brilliant book Kenya Pioneers by Errol Trzebinski covers the white pioneer phase of Kenya's history and spans the years from 1896, when three couples landed on the coast, to 1920, when the protectorate became a crown colony. Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere, was the best-known settler, but this book shows that liberated gentlewomen and adventurous Jews were among the more interesting figures in Kenyan history. Click for a review of the contents Kenya Pioneers *Of special interest to British visitors to Kenya is The Lord Egerton Castle, Ngata, Nakuru District, Kenya* - Seeing this Castle in the Kenyan bush for the first time brings up a very interesting story about Maurice Egerton, 4th Lord Egerton of Tatton Hall, who died without successor in 1958. (The 2,000-acre Tatton Park Estate, Cheshire, England, was bequeathed to the National Trust by the fourth and last Lord Egerton in 1958. Read more) Of special interest to one of our senior partners in the Delamere Group, Dr. Geoffrey Hebdon, is the account of the Lord Egertons Pipe Organ and the planned restoration by the The Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust. Lord Egerton was an extremely generous, philanthropic, individual and the Egerton University (EU) plans to establish the Lord Egerton Foundation in his honor. To read more about Lord Egerton and his castle, click here. *Read also* this recent fascinating news article about the daily routine of Maurice Egerton, the last Lord Egerton, who died in 1958 and of his final years while living in his Castle in the Kenyan bush. Click here. For a firsthand report on the Egerton Castle from one of the students of Cape Town Academy, who recently completed the course, Diploma of Travel & Tourism, click here. *Note* that Lord Maurice Egerton was the nephew of Wilbraham Egerton, 2nd Baron Egerton of Tatton (1832-1909) who was the esteemed writer of the valuable reference work Indian and Oriental Armour. Editorial Review of this excellent book: Long a vital sourcebook of information on the military history of India, this excellently illustrated volume provides factual accounts of events ranging from the earliest invasions of the subcontinent in 200 b.c. to the First Burmese War in 1824. A shorter section of the book includes detailed information on Arabian and Persian arms and Japanese armor. Illustrations and notes describe helmets, daggers, sabers, maces, blowpipes, and other weapons--all grouped according to geographical areas. A comprehensive reference for enthusiasts of arms, armor, and military history. New Introduction. 350 halftones and line illustrations. Plus of interest to our visitors, the 2nd Lord Egerton of Tatton, who wrote in 1896 the definitive reference work on Indian Arms and Armour, bequeathed his enormous collection to his daughter Lady Gertrude Lucia Egerton, (1861-1943) who later passed it on to the museum in Manchester Art Gallery, England. The most interesting parts are in storage, including many Sikh weapons, chakkars, and matchlocks. A Sikh shield is on display, in the Gallery of Craft & Design. The Museum holds the gauntlets of Maharaja Kharak Singh, and armour believed to be that of Maharaja Ranjit Singh which are in storage. The Anglo Sikh Heritage Trail is working in close association with the Manchester Art Gallery to explore opportunities for having more of their Treasures on public display. Click here. *Bird Watching In Kenya-Home of the Flamingos* - Remember the scenes from the film, Out of Africa when Meryl Streep and our friend Robert Redford (of Sundance in Salt Lake City) are flying over the lakes of Kenya and the thousands of flamingos like a pink cloud, passing over the same beautiful lakes? This experience can be yours. For more details click here. If you require assistance with travel, accommodation and arrangements for a tour of this region. Contact our firm. If you wish to simply enjoy a book review of the location where this film was made, and the beautiful area around Ngong Hills where Karen Blixen lived click here. For some trivia about the film "Out of Africa" read more. If you wish to review or purchase the book, or buy the DVD Out of Africa visit this link Out of Africa. Editor's Note: We have just received a complimentary copy of a great new book about the life of Denys Finch Hatton. This book titled Too Close to the Sun written by Sarah Wheeler is highly recommended. *Boran Cattle Breeders Society* - If you are interested in this breed of cattle, then this site is dedicated to the Boran breed which is the hardiest cattle breed to be found in continental Africa. Visit our website. *Hippo Point Private Estate & Wildlife Sanctuary* - After independence in 1963 and after hunting was banned in Kenya the highlights and struggles of colonial life slowly but surely started dissolving into a safe, photographic tourism industry whose main offer was the remaining wildlife. Visit the site of Hippo Point Kenya. *Soysambu Conservancy Limited* -This non-profit organization is in the process of being formed to establish a Conservancy in Kenya for the benefit of the public through preserving an environment which will sustain wildlife and vegetation alongside wildlife tourism. See the beautiful photos taken by Kat Combes. Visit their site. *Visit Ol Pejeta Conservancy* - Ol Pejeta is a 90,000 acre wildlife conservancy in the foothills of Mount Kenya incorporating Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, the only place in Kenya to see chimpanzees. Visit their site. Lakes of the Rift Valley - This report from the Leicester University in England contains excellent information for students who would like more information on Lake Naivasha, Lake Bogoria, and Lake Baringo. The report is produced by EarthWatch.org and is a PDF file. Click here and use the Site Map for Kenya. *Go Ballooning in Kenya* - This travel company Go Ballooning in Kenya was incorporated in Kenya in the year 2004. Othmar & Günter, the pilots of the company are both experienced international commercial Balloon Pilots with a wealth of experience as well as an impeccable safety record. Both have been operating in the hot air balloon ride business since the 1980's. For clients of the Delamere Group, contact Garrick Hebdon, our USA agent, for a special discount to take your balloon ride over the Soysambu Bush and Great Rift Valley, and view the Delamere Ranch from the air. *Bird spotting in Kenya* - Many of the clients of Delamere Travel have enjoyed using this web site, go to this link. *The William Holden Wildlife Foundation* - In his memory, the William Holden Wildlife Foundation was founded to carry on his important efforts and to meet the ever-increasing demand for alternatives to extinction. Bill Holden was co-founder of the Mount Kenya Game Ranch (now part of the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy. The foundation's education program currently serves over 10,000 students per year. Overhead expenses in the United States are underwritten through the generosity of a single donor, ensuring that virtually 100% of your tax-deductible donation goes directly to our work. Visit this site. *The Delamere Group* are supporters of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust that is a small flexible charity, established in memory of David, famous Naturalist and founder Warden of Kenya's giant Tsavo East National Park in which he served from 1948 until 1976. His character is summed up by Tim Corfield, in the Author's Note to the Field Manual David's Notes and Records inspired The Wilderness Guardian which is now a text book throughout Africa in most Wildlife Institutions and Training Schools, and an integral part of every Field Warden's library. Six Trustees assisted by an Advisory Committee of practical Naturalists with a lifetime experience of African conditions oversee and direct the operations of the Trust. For more information, click here. Read this interesting report about the current problems of the Rift Valley. Click here. *For paintings and prints of African Wildlife* - These beautiful pieces of art by *Simon Combes* are a delight to own or present as gifts. Watchful Combes, Simon Buy this Art Print at AllPosters.com Visit the web site of Simon Combes to learn of his life and work. Click here. Editor's Note: We regret to inform our readers that Simon was gored to death by a water buffalo on Sunday 12 December 2004 while out on an evening walk on his farm in Kenya, near the Delamere Estates in Soysambu. The staff and management of Delamere Travel send their condolences to Simon's family. Read the obituary of Simon Combes published in the Independent Newspaper, as written by our friend David Shepherd. Click here. *The Delamere Group is a sponsor of The Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)* - The CCF was founded in 1990 by Dr. Laurie Marker. CCF's mission is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in research and education on cheetahs and their eco-systems. Visit their site. *Kenya & Tanzania* - this new book "This Way Kenya & Tanzania" is packed with stunning color photos and high-quality maps (including a fold-out one in back) that make travel a breeze. Explore historic buildings and delightful parks. Take a town walking tour. Visit the best museums. This Way guides offer a ton of practical information - open hours, contact numbers, directions and more - all in a small portable book. Read more. *Visiting Kenya, Tanzania or Uganda* - Our partner in Nairobi offers camping and lodge safaris, climbs to Mt Kenya and Mt Kilimanjaro, beach holidays, Nairobi hotel bookings and transfers, shuttle services and luxury lodge road Safaris to Masai Mara, Samburu and Amboseli. Visit the web site of "African Safari Packages" and use the discount code "*DEL-909" or contact our travel firm for more details. Take a virtual tour of the Serengeti Plains* and enjoy the power of the photography and shots selected by our senior professional photographer, Bradley Hebdon, from Cape Town, click here For Travel Information and Tours Available to the Countries of the African Continent click here and select the country of interest. If you need assistance or further information contact our firm. *Making a visit to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe* - The best time to visit is in April and May or August and September. Hot in September and October, then rainy from November to March. For an overview of this beautiful tourist spot, click here. *Southern Africa - Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa* - This new book, "This Way Southern Africa" is packed with stunning color photos and high-quality maps (including a fold-out one in back) that make travel a breeze. Explore historic buildings and delightful parks. Take a town walking tour. Visit the best museums. This Way guides offer a ton of practical information - open hours, contact numbers, directions and more - all in a small portable book. Read more. One of the favorite places to visit in South Africa is Stellenbosch - The heart of South Africa's wine industry, Stellenbosch is a place of great beauty and culture that's steeped in South African tradition. Visit this site. Cape Town Travel Adviser - This personalised travel guide for visitors to Cape Town South Africa, includes useful travel preparation tips and a visitors guide, plus information on Cape Town accommodation, Cape Town tour attractions, travel insurance, beaches and more. http://www.capetown-traveladviser.com/ *Check the current weather* forecast and existing conditions in South Africa and the various provinces. Click here. This Months African Travel Feature, Hippo Dipping - Nestled in the heart of Kenya's Tsavo West National Park, lies the fascinating and unique "Mzina Springs". The "Springs" are replenished with 50 million gallons per day of fresh pure water, but what is truly unique is that the "Springs" have become "home" to about 70 hippos. Tourists find it a very difficult to place to visit, but we recently enjoyed perusing the photographs by our "friends" Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone, who have researched and photographed the "Hippos Dipping" in the Mzina Springs. Why not enjoy a virtual tour of this fascination place yourself, click here. The photographs and information in this article are from the National Geographic Magazine. For more information on how to subscribe to this excellent journal go to NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC For a wide selection of Posters and Art Prints from the National Geographic, visit National Geographic Posters *We are now acting as booking agents for one of the best safari camps in Eastern Africa "Lord Delamere's Camp"* (often misspelled Delemere Camp in many travel brochures) which is located in Nakuru on the shoreline of Lake Elmentaita on the 16,000-acre Soysambu Wildlife Sanctuary, about 140 miles north of Nairobi, which is reserved exclusively for the Delamere family and the few guests of Delamere's Camp. The "Camp" has 16 permanent, luxury tented accommodations on the shore of Lake Elmenteita. One is a specially enlarged family and honeymoon suite. 24 hr - 240 Volt electricity. En-suite flush toilet, hot & cold running water (showers). Sole and exclusive access to "The Delamere's Private Soysambu Wildlife Sanctuary". 1 en-suite tree blind (2 bunk beds - Maximum 4 persons). Cash Bar and delicious Table d'hote Dining. For more details of dates available and prices please contact our firm. Why not learn some basic Swahili, Kenya's national language? Click here and select "Travelers Guide" from the side menu. Lord Delamere's Camp looking North (Please note that the camp is temporarily closed for renovations and will reopen soon) *To read an interesting report of the Delamere Camp* and how it was started and is currently maintained please read our report, click here. If you need assistance to obtain a visa or passport for any of the countries in Africa, visit the pages of Delamere Immigration Services. When planning your overseas trips, for the best deals in hotel accommodation, in over 220 countries of the world, use our new "search directory." Click here. "Back to Home Page"
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