We have been so busy recently that we have not updated our April photo competition with the photos we have been sent for a couple of weeks.

No need to panic!  None of the pictures have been lost, and all the ones we have received to date have been uploaded this afternoon. 

We should also highlight the fact that we have changed the prize for this competition from wine to Amazon web sites.  One of the winners of our last competition was an American lady, and unfortunately in proved  impossible to deliver the wine to her and this has causes us to re-think the suitability of wine as a prize.  The advantage of Amazon vouchers is that they can be delivered anywhere and in (pretty much) any currency, and with a wide range of items available this give winners a great deal of flexability in terms of choosing their own prize.

Our November photo competition is now closed and our congratulations go to Cathy Fairgrave, Daniel Newcombe, and Janet DeLand who each win a case of 6 premium South African wines courtesy of SA Wines Online.

Many thanks to everyone who enetered this competition.  The animal caught on film giving birth in the first episode of  ‘Shamwari: A Wild Life’ on the Animal Planet chanel was a giraffe.

Our congratulations go to Sophie Eyre who was randomly drawn from hundreds of correct answers and wins a 3 night stay at Shamwari courtesy of  The Mantis Collection, Animal Planet and Rockwallaby Productions.

Anyone else thinking of going to Shamwari next year might be interested in the special offer we are running for travel between May and September where guests booking 3 nights at Shamwari can enjoy 2 or 3 complimentary nights at selected hotels across South Africa (a saving of more than R8000 / US$ 1100 / £550).

The Shamwari Game Reserve will be featured in a series on the Animal Planet channel called “Shamwari: A Wild Life” which starts on September 15th in the UK.  

A full schedule for the UK, Europe and Africa is available on the competition page, along with a clip of the programme.

To celebrate this series Shamwari are running a competition with a prize of three nights at the reserve to be taken next year.
See a clip of the programme and enter the competition.