We met these AfriCanis dogs in one community in South Africa. Their owners are devoted to the preservation of AfriCanis, and these dogs demonstrate the beauty and agility of the animals found throughout the rural countryside. Blood samples from desert bred Saluqis in the Middle East and the native African dogs in KwaZulu-Natal of South …
Tag: South Africa
Dogs in Zululand
KwaZulu-Natal is home to the Zulu, and is located between the country of Lesotho and the eastern coast of South Africa. Here are some of the Zulu dogs we met in our journey. These dogs are used to protect livestock herds, but are also used in packs to hunt.
Big dogs of Lesotho
It’s taken me forever to sort photos from our Lesotho/South Africa trip, but now I’m going to flood the blog with images of dogs we met along the way. These are the bigger dogs or livestock guardian type dogs that we met in Lesotho. The primary predators in Lesotho are jackals, but these dogs have …
Random images from Africa
I’m sorting images from our South Africa trip this summer, and came across a few to share. This is a crested eagle – a species we saw frequently. I’m not positive, but I think this next one is a snake eagle. I snapped this next image in a village shop in Lesotho, and of course …
Lesotho – the kingdom in the sky
Jim and I have just returned from a fantastic trip to Lesotho and South Africa. While we enjoyed our journey into the heart of traditional Zululand in South Africa (a future post), our arrival in the high alpine mountains of Lesotho was the discovery of Shangri-La. The Kingdom of Lesotho is an independent nation entirely …