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Okavango Delta Mobile Safari - Part III

Okavango Delta Mobile Safari - Part III

February 16, 2026 • 12:00 AM

This article is continued from Part I, and Part II.  Ending our stay in Savuti with a lantern-lit dinner under the stars and before finally heading off to Chobe National Park (NP) early the next morning, we had the chance to see the rock paintings of the San bushmen on one of the small hills surrounding Savuti. For that we were allowed to step out of the vehicle and climb up a small rock formation with our guides. Besides a stunning view over the Savuti channel and the giant baobabs in the...

On Mobile Safari in the Okavango Delta - Part II

On Mobile Safari in the Okavango Delta - Part II

February 16, 2026 • 12:00 AM

This article is continued from Part I, located here. On day 4 of our mobile safari, the camp was broken up by the staff and all the equipment was trucked ahead of us to the next camp in Savuti. As soon as we left Moremi, the landscape around us changed completely again several times. From lush impenetrable green to dusty bush land, then awe-inspiring savannah and suddenly back to green with red rock formations and more bush again. Being driven from Camp Moremi to Camp Savuti brought several...

Beautiful Botswana - On Mobile Safari in the Okavango Delta

Beautiful Botswana - On Mobile Safari in the Okavango Delta

February 16, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Endless space, in the middle of wilderness, pure nature around you, special encounters, fascinating animal observations, stunning sunsets with a drink in your hand, relax, unwind, switch off and take a deep breath far away from everyday life: sounds like something from a kitschy advertising brochure for digital detoxification? Most definitely! But the good news is: all this and much more can actually be experienced on a Mobile Camping Safari in Botswana. A travelogue by The Munich...

Sixt profits from the new desire to travel

Sixt profits from the new desire to travel

February 16, 2026 • 12:00 AM

For years, Germans could hardly move around the world because of the Corona pandemic, but now they seem to want to relieve the pent-up wanderlust and catch up on everything. But the increased demand is leading to new shortages - and higher prices. The Pullach-based car rental company Sixt, which just announced the most successful first half-year in its history, is also benefiting from the new desire to travel: According to the report, the company made almost 60 percent more revenue from January...

Pilot strike possible in August

Pilot strike possible in August

February 16, 2026 • 12:00 AM

After flight cancellations due to industry-wide bottlenecks in the aviation sector, Deutsche Lufthansa is now also threatened with cancellations due to a strike. The Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) pilots' union has run out of patience after six rounds of collective bargaining without agreement. The union is initiating a ballot, which could lead to strikes. According to information from the F.A.Z., the vote is to be triggered this Thursday and then run until July 31. If 70 percent of the voting union...

Talks for the successor to the nine-euro ticket

Talks for the successor to the nine-euro ticket

February 16, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) has shown himself to be open to a successor regulation for the nine-euro ticket in local transport and announced talks with the federal states about it. Wissing told the newspapers of the Funke media group that he was pleased with the many suggestions for what a follow-up ticket could look like. "We need to take a close look at the price at which such a ticket could be offered throughout Germany," he added. The goal of his ministry is to...

Almost 10,000 canceled regional trains in spring

Almost 10,000 canceled regional trains in spring

February 16, 2026 • 12:00 AM

"The train is cancelled. The reason is short-term illness of the staff. We apologize for any inconvenience." Bad surprises of this kind are becoming more and more common at Deutsche Bahn (DB) stops these days and weeks. A current statistic shows: In the past two years, the state-owned company has never had so many regional trains cancelled due to staff shortages as this spring. 9725 trips that did not take place have now been reported by the Federal Ministry of Transport in response to a...

Lufthansa back in the profit zone

Lufthansa back in the profit zone

February 16, 2026 • 12:00 AM

The Lufthansa Group flew back into the profit zone in the spring. The still very lucrative cargo business and the maintenance subsidiary Lufthansa Technik lifted adjusted Group earnings before interest and taxes to 350 and 400 million euros, respectively, with their profits (same period last year: minus 827 million euros), the company reported in a mandatory announcement to the stock exchange on Friday. Sales climbed to 8.5 billion euros in the second quarter of the year, compared with 3.2...

Summer flight chaos: British Airways cancels 10,300 flights

Summer flight chaos: British Airways cancels 10,300 flights

February 16, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Summer is here. Finally, you can stay outside again until late in the evening and enjoy the well-deserved rays of the sun with sunglasses and shorts. There is hardly anything more beautiful. The blue skies and high temperatures of the last few weeks should also provide many with a proper travel mood. While passionate vacationers haven't always had it quite so easy in the last two years, Italy, Majorca and other popular tourist hotspots are now attracting the masses again in the coming months....

Faeser announces easier influx of workers in the hospitality industry

Faeser announces easier influx of workers in the hospitality industry

February 16, 2026 • 12:00 AM

According to the special regulation for airport staff, the federal government is also planning a simplified immigration of workers from abroad for the hospitality industry."The labor shortage has become much worse as a result of the pandemic," said Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser in an interview with the German Press Agency. In aviation, he said, there is a massive shortage of labor and skilled workers, as well as in the restaurant and hotel industry. "That we have to create...

Lufthansa demands use of more modern scanner technology

Lufthansa demands use of more modern scanner technology

February 16, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Lufthansa German Airlines has called for the use of more modern scanner technology at security checkpoints. "There is state-of-the-art technology that would significantly speed up security checks. Instead, older technology is mostly in use at airports in Germany," Lufthansa board member Detlef Kayser, responsible for fleets and infrastructure, told Bild am Sonntag, according to an advance report on Saturday. More modern scanners, for example, no longer require liquids and computers to be removed...

Vacations: what is significantly more expensive in Italy, Spain and Croatia

Vacations: what is significantly more expensive in Italy, Spain and Croatia

February 16, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Summer vacation in 2022 will be more difficult in several respects: On the one hand, the Corona figures are currently rising again in many popular vacation destinations, and on the other, many things are currently becoming more expensive, even abroad. Holidaymakers should therefore prepare for rising prices during their vacation. As ARD foreign reporters report on tagesschau.de, prices are also rising in the popular vacation destination Italy, for example. There, especially fuel is currently...

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