@SamaraKaroo

Leading conservation journey to restore 67,000 acres of South Africa's Great Karoo landscape and beyond through rewilding & responsible tourism. #SamaraKaroo

 Great Karoo, South Africa
samara.co.za
Joined September 2009
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Justin Fox@JustinFoxAfrica9 Dec 2023
Lovely sightings from Plains Camp in @SamaraKaroo #camdeboo #theresagibbonpr
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Justin Fox@JustinFoxAfrica10 Dec 2023
Dreamy days in the central Karoo at Plains Camp, @SamaraKaroo #theresagibbonpr
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Journeys With Purpose@JWP_Tweet11 Aug 2023
During guided bush walks and game drives with South Africa’s leading conservationists, experience trophic rewilding in action with @SamaraKaroo’s cheetah reintroduction programme. Find out more: journeyswithpurpose.org/jour… #safari #familysafari #cheetah #daretorewild
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Julienne du Toit@KarooSpace21 Jul 2023
Samara Plains Tented Camp - a beautiful new #Karoo safari experience in the Sneeuberg mountains of the Eastern Cape karoospace.co.za/samara-plai… @SamaraKaroo @KarooHeartland

Samara Plains Tented Camp - Karoo Space

A new safari experience in the Sneeuberg Mountains of the Eastern Cape Karoo.

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The Birding Life@birding_life23 Jul 2023
Your intimate Karoo safari experience awaits… Award-winning Samara Karoo Reserve is a conservation journey on 67,000 acres of born-again wilderness in South Africa’s ‘heart-stoppingly’ beautiful Great Karoo region. thebirdinglife.com/samara-ka… @SamaraKaroo @EC_Tourism
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Dean Allen@Dr_DeanAllen16 Jul 2023
FRONTIER LAND: THE PODCAST 🎙 I’m pleased to announce the latest episode of my Frontier Land #podcast in conjunction with @AlgoaFM is now available: Sarah Tompkins of @SamaraKaroo Reserve is a true pioneer of conservation in the #EasternCape. Enjoy! 🌟 algoafm.co.za/podcast/sarah-… – at Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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Journeys With Purpose@JWP_Tweet14 Jul 2023
Join us for a conservation safari with @SamaraKaroo between 10th-16th March 2024, and involve younger generations in the future of our planet. Find out more 👇 journeyswithpurpose.org/jour… #greengeneration #daretodream #conservationheroes #beinspired
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Simon Barnes@simonbarneswild22 Apr 2023
Roaring at the dawn simonbarnesauthor.co.uk/roar…

Roaring at the dawn - Simon Barnes

  A lion roar is not to be confused with the petulant snarl that comes before a Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer film. The real thing sounds like a god vomiting up the earth. It fills the bush from one horizon to...

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Simon Barnes@simonbarneswild21 Apr 2023
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Zorillas and gorillas - Simon Barnes

            My great and alas late friend John Burton, the maverick genius of conservation, was a great one for the underdog. He always maintained that elephant shrews were more interesting then...

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Simon Barnes@simonbarneswild20 Apr 2023
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Plan A for aardvark - Simon Barnes

            I saw an aardvark near the foot of Aasvogelberg: it was a night of rejoicing, and not just because of those glorious double-As. I was in Samara and the fact that I saw not one but two...

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Simon Barnes@simonbarneswild19 Apr 2023
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Trusted by cheetahs - Simon Barnes

Dusk was falling. I had almost completed a new personal best: the 13-hour game-drive. But what else could we do? We had commuted across Samara from one wonder to the next, all the time savouring a...

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And part 2 🐾🌿
Simon Barnes@simonbarneswild18 Apr 2023
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Where eagles stare - Simon Barnes

            Eagle Rock looks over the Plains of Camdeboo in the great Karoo north of Cape Town. I surveyed this apparently endless stretch of land, keeping a cautious few paces from the edge, and...

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Beautiful words by @simonbarneswild who recently visited Samara 🌿🐾
Simon Barnes@simonbarneswild17 Apr 2023
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And all at once I was enlightened - Simon Barnes

              Enlightenment must be like this… the sudden enlightenment of the Zen student who perceives infinity in an instant of time and is forever richer. I had arrived at Samara, in the Karoo in...

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No Wifi, no electricity, no high-tech distractions – just a grounding, humbling experience in Nature. This is the ethos of Samara’s brand-new ecotourism offering, Plains Camp, due to open its canvas doors on 15 June 2023. Learn more: samara.co.za/lodges/plains-c…
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The #Experientialist meets the mother-daughter team with ambitious plans to rewild a forgotten and arid land the size of Germany in South Africa, while giving back to the women of the Great Karoo. @SamaraKaroo @SouthAfrica #outtheretravel #IWD23 outthere.travel/samara-karoo…
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Galore SA - #UnfoldGSA
@GaloreSA16 Feb 2023
Samara Karoo Reserve near Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape’s Great Karoo region is a landscape of space, stars and silence. Unfold Here : galoresa.online/2023/02/16/r… #UnfoldGSA #GaloreSATravels
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The Long Run@thelongrunorg16 Jan 2023
🦁A South African farming region has been gradually restored to its former wilderness over the last 25 years, thanks to our Fellow Member @SamaraKaroo. Isabelle Tompkins is now leading the conservation charge, taking over after her mother.💡Read more: countryandtownhouse.com/trav…

Conservation Queens: Interview with Isabelle Tompkins – Samara Karoo Reserve, South Africa

Over the past 25 years, a South African farming region has been gradually restored to its former wilderness. Lions, cheetahs, black rhinos and elephants

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Adrian Thorne@thorne_adrian16 Jan 2023
Replying to @thelongrunorg @SamaraKaroo
I’m very proud to be able to say that we have been a small part of the journey and watched with great enthusiasm all the achievements. I remember the first time I saw Sibella on Tina’s birthday on foot and then she visited us at the lodge, drinking from the fountain
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Adrian Thorne@thorne_adrian16 Jan 2023
Replying to @thelongrunorg @SamaraKaroo
My highlight was being the first guests to see the lion cubs from the the Founder Pride in January 2020. The adrenaline rush was unbelievable 🦁
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Lesser-known as a safari destination the Karoo may be, but that doesn’t mean it can't deliver on wildlife viewing, says @margiegoldsmith in @Forbes, especially at Samara. Read more: tinyurl.com/2p8cp6yd #TheBigFiveAndMore
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