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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.
African
Trails - Our company is an adventure overland tour operator specialising
in budget safaris and overland tours in Africa and the Middle East. We have been
operating continuously for 32 years and we run all our own trips. Our tours range
from short, 5 day safaris to the ultimate trip - the 43 week London to Istanbul
via Cape Town Trans Africa. We have over 60 safaris and tours to suit most people
and ages, as long as they have the adventurous spirit. All our departures are
on a set departure date.
Visit this site.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. -
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
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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 - 1908) who was the 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 and will cover any costs involved). 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
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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.
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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.
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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, Bradley Hebdon. Read also
this brief report that will be contained in our new release about Hugh Cholmondeley,
3rd Lord Delamere.(coming
soon)
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- 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.
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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.
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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
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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 (supported by the National Trust of UK)
Lord Egerton was an extremely generous, philanthropic, individual and the Egerton
University (EU) in Kenya plans to establish the Lord Egerton Foundation
(assisted with your donations) in his honor. To read more about Lord Egerton
and his castle in Africa, click
here. See also the interim report
regarding the title Lord
Egerton.
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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. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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, Utah, USA) 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. -
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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.
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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. Sizzling
Waters - This beautiful location is a bed and breakfast facility that
offers quality and competitive services. Our guests often refer to Sizzling Waters
as Pure Paradise in the Village and we are conveniently located on the Nakuru-Kericho
Highway, just after Ngata Bridge, 10 minutes drive from Nakuru Town. While here,
guests can easily access the famous Lord
Egerton Castle, Menengai Crater and Nakuru
National Park. Sizzling Waters is a place to meet friends and close business
deals and keep up with current events while enjoying sizzling foods and drinks
of your choice. Visit
our site. Or
contact Delamere Travel for available
bookings.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Read
this interesting report about the current problems of the Rift Valley. Click
here. 
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.
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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.
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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. 
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Take
a virtual tour of the Serengeti Plains
and enjoy the power of the photography and shots (in real time) 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. 
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Check
the current weather forecast and existing conditions in South Africa
and the various provinces. Click
here.
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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
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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)
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