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Find out about what’s new and happening with us at Rhino Africa, from work and informal events and trips, to more behind-the-scenes happenings.

Rhino Africa’s Top 10 off-the-beaten-track African destinations

Off the beaten track

As African experts, we’ve selected our 10 best “off-the-beaten-track” destinations for 2011. The destinations and properties we’ve chosen are the ones that have stuck with us from our travels over the last year, whether for their sustainable approach, level of luxury or sheer beauty and remoteness. We hope you’ll enjoy exploring these unique African destinations [...]

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Rhino Africa search for a junior PHP web developer

Rhino Africa looking for a junior PHP developer

Rhino Africa are searching for a junior PHP web developer with at least 1 year experience to assist in the development and maintenance of our internal systems. You would need to have a good understanding of PHP, MySQL and Javascript.

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Presenting…. our new German and French sites!

The German website for Rhino Africa

We’re happy to announce that we have just launched a brand new French language site and relaunched our German one. Rhino Africa is ever-growing and we continue to bring more and more foreigners, German and French tourists in particular, to Africa. We hope our new sites will make things easier for you. Take a look and let us know what you think.

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World Rhino Day 2011 – United Against Poaching

World Rhino Day march

A rhino is dying every 22 hours. The poaching has to stop now! This was the message promoted by Rhino Africa and friends outside Parliament in Cape Town today to mark the second annual World Rhino Day. Several hundred people attended the event including representatives from the press and media.

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The DA backs World Rhino Day

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22 September is World Rhino Day. Once again Rhino Africa will be leading a gathering outside Parliament in Cape Town between 11:30am and 1:30pm. Remember to wear red to show your support! The purpose of the gathering is to raise awareness of the continuing scourge of rhino poaching that is threatening the extinction of the [...]

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It’s Arbor Week

This Indian Ocean island's baobab tree is a favourite of ours

We’ve been so caught up with rhinos and planning our World Rhino Day event that we haven’t had time to pay attention to the other stars of this week – trees! Arbor Week runs from 1-7 September in South Africa. We’re great fans of trees – sleeping in luxury treehouses, photographing great baobabs, watching leopards lounging on their branches, canoeing past big leafy ones bustling with pretty tweeting winged creatures, and more. So in celebration, read on…

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World Rhino Day 2011 – Thursday 22 September 2011

Come down and join us this year too

After a hugely successful awareness raising campaign in 2010, we’re aiming even higher in 2011. With the momentum from the devastating recent events at Aquila Private Game Reserve we are planning an enormous show of force outside Parliament in Cape Town.

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Happy 7th Birthday, Rhino Africa!

Founder and MD David Ryan cuts the cake

What a great way to start a Monday! We’re toasting to our 7th Birthday here at Rhino Africa with sparkling Graham Beck Brut Rosé in our glasses and decadent chocolate cake on our plates. Yip, today, a lucky seven years ago, our Founder and MD, David Ryan, began work on what is now Africa’s leading online tour operator, bringing over 15 000 guests per year to Africa. David cut the cake today to celebrate how far the company has come and we had no problem polishing it all off.

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Challenge4aCause: the cyclists are off

Riders cycling through the Damaraland

Bags and bikes are packed. Weather’s looking great. Riders have carbo-loaded and trained the heck out of their calves and hamstrings. And today, they’re off! It’s time for our great Challenge4aCause cycle event to hit the sandy roads and dunes of Damaraland, Namibia, which apparently this time of year is strangely greener than usual, with [...]

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Tailor-Made Safaris Get an Upgrade at Rhino Africa!

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We’d like to invite you to visit the new Rhino Africa Website! The new site is crammed with Rhinotastic goodness and more exciting features than you can shake a USB stick at. It’s all designed to make it easier for you to explore Africa, to learn about our magnificent continent and to plan your ultimate [...]

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We have a winner!!!

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After much fanfare and suspense we are ready to announce the winner of our 10,000 Facebook Fans competition…We had a little draw with David this morning and it’s time to give someone the safari holiday of a lifetime! The incredibly lucky winner of three nights at MannaBay, followed by two nights at the mind boggling [...]

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And the IGLTA Pioneer Award goes to…. DAVID RYAN!

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We’ve come a long way since the early days on David’s dining room table. But we’ve always remembered our roots. We love giving back and every time you book with us you help us to keep our good work going. But none of this would be possible without our fearless and intrepid leader – David [...]

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