africa
Table Mountain
The rocky prominence of Table Mountain rises up over the streets of Cape Town, an ever present reminder of the beauty and strength of the African landscape. To get this image of first light on the mountain I returned repeatedly to a lookout from neighboring Lion's Head. The brilliant clouds scudding past the mountain and the windswept native plants in the foreground contrast with the silent city, just awakening to a new day.
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Wines of the Cape
Behind a stately seventeenth-century mansion, set in a formal garden flanked by five ancient camphor trees, rows of manicured grape vines rise towards a phalanx of rugged peaks, maroon in the clear dusk light On a similar crisp windy evening, 350 years ago, the first Dutch settlers urged their wagons across the low passes to the fertile valleys inland.
To the south the lights of Cape Town glimmer under the broad bulk of Table Mountain. Across the rough crags of the Helderberg range, lie the rich winemaking regions of Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Paarl.
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Elegance among Elephants
text by Maxine Rose Schur
Sunset, Matetsi, Zimbabwe
The sun ---a fiery globe --- cast flames of light across the river. Though forty kilometers away, Victoria Falls filled the sunset air with a constant purr. Elephants grazed on the papyrus-covered islands and rolled in the mud wallows close to shore. One elephant knelt silently, head bowed as if in prayer. In the reeds, a frog chirruped. A white egret lifted off like a tiny Concorde. The river was infested with crocodiles, and the land rife with rhinos, jackals and lions but I felt a primeval peace. I had arrived only an hour ago at Matetsi Game Lodge in Zimbabwe and was now sailing on a covered wooden barge down the Zambezi. Plane-weary, our little group, clinked glasses of white wine and yelped with surprise at the water’s abundance of yawning hippos. I mentally pinched myself --- this was not Disneyland; this was Africa! Real Adventure Land. Of course even before I left home I was intoxicated with the romance of going on safari and found myself repeating the words “Zimbabwe,” “Zambezi,” “Zambia” to delight myself with the very sounds of faraway.
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Fruits of the Vine
This story on South Africa for Endless Vacation magazine covered the wine country of Stellenbosch and Franschhoek north of Cape Town.
They have been making wine in South Africa since the 1600's but only since majority rule have they sold in the world market.
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The Fairest Cape
This feature on the people and culture of Cape Town, South Africa was written and photographed for the Japan Airline inflight magazine Winds
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Sauvignon Safari
Images from South Africa's Cape Winelands region illustrated this feature for German GEO magazine
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tunisia
A December trip with my son Jonathan to Tunis and the Sahara desert. Surprisingly it rained; winter does come in the desert. But we rode camels in Nafta, near the Algerian border, explored the plams of the Tozeur oasis, and wandered the cobble streets of Sidi Bou Said, a tiny whitewashed village on a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean.
The first batch of images is at www.davidsanger.com/stock/tunisia