adventure Archives - Jane Wynyard

Date:: May 1, 2018
Categories:: Africa, Travel
Tags:: adventure, africa, east africa, journey, kenya, mombasa, nairobi, photographs, train, train journey, travel
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Travelling on the Lunatic Express

In May last year, the colonial-era metre-gauge Lunatic Express sleeper train from Nairobi to Mombasa, which used to last anything from 16 – 24 hours, ended. It was replaced by a new fast standard-gauge line (SGR) taking only four hours and 30 minutes. I’ve yet to travel on the new line but needless to say, travelling on the Lunatic Express (that really was its name) is an adventure I’ll never forget. The train travelled through the middle of the most expansive slums I’ve ever seen and cut a swathe through acres of new development where the remains of villages clung[…]

Date:: July 3, 2017
Categories:: Africa, photography, wildlife
Tags:: adventure, africa, conservation, kenya, new life, reinvention, samburu, save the elephants, wildlife, wildlife photographer, wildlife photography
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One Kiwi’s journey from PR maven to wildlife photographer

I’m so thrilled and humbled to have been profiled in Your Weekend Magazine in New Zealand and to have had my image of the mournful female gorilla in Rwanda featured on the cover! The interview was written by acclaimed author Kelly Ana Morey, whom I once shared a room with in Sixth Form at New Plymouth Girl’s High boarding school, and published in print in New Zealand’s Dominion Post, Waikato Times and Christchurch Star and online. Reading the piece over the weekend I still can’t quite believe it’s me! Read the full story here. SaveSave

Date:: December 20, 2016
Categories:: Africa
Tags:: adventure, africa, bushmen, culture, indigenous, namibia, san, san people, southern africa, traditional, travel
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Meet the shy clicking San people of Namibia

On my second day in Namibia, I was introduced to a fascinating yet shy group of people called San people. Also known as the bushmen or Basarwa, they are the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa where they have lived for at least 20,000 years. While many San people have adapted to modern ways and no longer live the traditional lifestyle in Namibia, it was fascinating to learn about their culture and see how they lived off the harsh African landscape and nature. We listened to the chief of the group speak in the click language ‘Khoisan’ as he showed us how to hunt wildlife in the traditional San way using poison[…]

Date:: December 7, 2016
Categories:: Africa, wildlife
Tags:: adventure, africa, bull elephant, elephant, elephants, kenya, samburu, samburu national park, save the elephants, wildlife, wildlife photographer, wildlife photography
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The wild bull elephant that visits the STE research camp

We had a rather awe-inspiring visitor yesterday … an enormous 17-year-old bull elephant called Malaso who for some unknown reason, took exception to the special collar testing units that we’d set up in the morning on a patch of land at the entrance to the Save The Elephants camp. He strode into the camp, sniffed the heavy collars and their wooden stands which we’d positioned as part of an alert testing, and then promptly lifted them into the air and threw them to the ground as though they were mere twigs. He then happily munched on salt bushes while we[…]

Date:: November 9, 2016
Categories:: Africa
Tags:: adventure, fashion PR, life, life is too short, life-changing, loss, net-a-porter, new career, new life, perspective, porter magazine, sepsis, wildlife, wildlife photographer
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From Net-A-Porter PR Director To Wildlife Photographer

This piece was first published in Refinery29 on Tuesday November 8 2016. Earlier this year, after a decade of working in the glamorous world of fashion magazine PR, I made one of the toughest decisions of my life – to quit my job and step into the unknown. I vividly remember the day I resigned – hands shaking, palms sweating and my boss’s surprised face as I handed her my resignation letter. But I couldn’t ignore the voice in my head anymore – the voice that was telling me I was on the wrong path and I was running out[…]

Date:: March 22, 2015
Categories:: Europe, horse riding, Horses, Iceland, volcano
Tags:: adventure, iceland, icelandic horses, ponies, riding, riding holidays, travel, volcano
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Volcano pony trekking in Iceland

In June 2014, I travelled to the Nordic island of Iceland with a friend to ride Icelandic horses in the countryside and up into the volcanic mountains that dominate the landscape through a company called Eld.Hestar. We flew into the capital, Reykjavik, and were then picked up from the main bus stop and taken to the Eldhestars farm Vellir which is situated in the heart of Iceland‘s south-western countryside close to the town Hveragerði, one of Iceland’s most popular tourist destinations nestled between volcanic mountains in a green valleys with steaming hot springs. We spent four days riding across the most dramatic landscape including treeless countryside, through marshes,[…]

Date:: December 22, 2005
Categories:: Bucharest, Dracula, Europe, monkey, Poiana Brasov, Romania, Sighisoara, skiing, Transylvania 2005
Tags:: adventure, bears, bran castle, carpathian mountains, dracula, eastern europe, monkeys, mountains, poiana brasov, romania, sighishoara, skiing, transylvania, travel, vlad the impaler
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Thieving monkeys and grumpy vice presidents in Transylvania

By Jane Wynyard – Poiana Brasov, Transylvania, 2005 Forget Dracula, vampires and werewolves. The most menacing creature you’re likely to encounter in Transylvania these days is a thieving monkey dressed in a blue suit that hangs around nightclubs. A resident at the ski resort of Poiana Brasov in the Southern Carpathian mountains, the jittery, red-eyed primate with the sharpest fangs in the business, is usually shoved by its Dracula-like owner into the arms of gullible and unsuspecting tourists. If you don’t pay the 150,000 lei (three pounds, fifty) for a photograph, the monkey bares his fangs, extends his long spidery[…]

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Travelling on the Lunatic Express

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One Kiwi’s journey from PR maven to wildlife photographer

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Meet the shy clicking San people of Namibia

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The wild bull elephant that visits the STE research camp

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From Net-A-Porter PR Director To Wildlife Photographer

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Volcano pony trekking in Iceland

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Thieving monkeys and grumpy vice presidents in Transylvania

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