There’s one thing splendidly unavoidable concerning the festive season at Silvan Safari. The sky grows broad, the bush hums with summer time vitality, and someway, there’s all the time a tiny creature reminding you that the world is stuffed with braveness. Final 12 months, it was Rodney, the Pink-Horned Rhino. The 12 months earlier than, the Hyena Who… nicely, brought about a little bit of mischief. And now? A small chook with a powerful quantity of self-belief. Meet Bella the Bee-Eater!
Take to the sky with Bella the Bee-Eater’s Daring Journey
A Festive Custom Takes Flight
Each December, Rhino Africa and Silvan Safari come collectively to create and launch a limited-edition vacation e book that is equal elements whimsy, wildlife marvel, and bushveld allure. What began as a playful ardour venture has changed into a cherished seasonal ritual.
And now Bella the Bee-Eater joins the household. Her story unfolds throughout meadows, rivers, lengthy migratory routes, and at last the Sabi Sand, the place Silvan Safari turns into each sanctuary and stage for her huge arrival.
The story (fantastically illustrated and written for readers of all ages) follows Bella as she learns the quiet braveness of carrying on, even when the sky feels a bit wider than anticipated.
A younger European bee-eater units out on her very first migration
Bee-Eaters and the Sabi Sand: A Seasonal Match
In case you’ve ever visited the Sabi Sand in summer time, you’ll know that European bee-eaters really feel like confetti tossed throughout the bush. They swoop and skim, flash teal and gold within the gentle, and have an uncanny capability to drag your gaze skyward – even should you’re mid-sundowner.
In Bella the Bee-Eater’s Daring Journey, that skyward pull turns into the essence of her journey. The story hints at huge landscapes and larger hopes, with out giving something away, whereas capturing the sensation of watching these birds transfer as if the world itself have been cheering them on.
It’s much less about occasions and extra about:
open skies,heat evenings,faraway journeys,and the form of soft-spoken magic that’s exhausting to elucidate however simple to really feel
Which, coincidentally, could be very Silvan Safari.
European bee-eaters want heat climates, so in winter, they migrate to Africa
A Story for All Ages (and All Travellers)
With out revealing any narrative turns, Bella’s story leans into three common concepts:
Resilience: Migration isn’t any small endeavor, even for a fictional bee-eater. Bella’s story gently mirrors the methods all of us navigate huge seasons of change.Exploration: Her world is expansive, curious, and filled with small surprises that remind us why journey issues: it widens the body of what we consider is feasible.Group: From household flocks to the animals she encounters alongside the best way, the story celebrates the relationships that information, problem, and uplift us.
These are the themes that make Bella’s journey really feel completely suited to the festive season – a time outlined by gathering, reflecting, and rediscovering marvel within the on a regular basis.
Meet an entire forged of energetic characters alongside the best way
The place Luxurious Meets Storytelling
Silvan Safari isn’t merely the setting for Bella’s journey; it’s the heartbeat of this custom. The lodge has lengthy been a spark for inventive collaboration. Its inventive identification, immersive surroundings, and deep connection to the Sabi Sand encourage narratives that really feel rooted in place quite than manufactured.
Bella’s story continues that ethos; wildlife as muse, wilderness as co-author, and just a little chook who arrives proper on cue because the 12 months attracts to an in depth.
Bella discovers that braveness grows in small moments
Get the E book (and Watch Bella Come to Life)
This 12 months’s limited-edition vacation e book, Bella the Bee-Eater’s Daring Journey, is offered completely on the Silvan Safari boutique from the twentieth of December.
For readers who get pleasure from revisiting previous instalments, you may discover the earlier vacation tales right here:
Step into the enchanting world of Bella the Bee-Eater’s Daring Journey
Why Bella Issues (and Why She’ll Preserve Returning)
European bee-eaters arrive in southern Africa every summer time with an instinctive sense of timing. Rhino Africa’s festive tales are inclined to observe go well with. They return every year to reconnect travellers with the explanations Africa has such pull: open horizons, wildlife moments, and the form of experiences that rearrange your perspective in methods you didn’t anticipate.
Bella’s journey faucets into that feeling. Her braveness grows by means of movement, curiosity, and people tiny moments that construct into one thing unexpectedly highly effective. Anybody who has travelled with Rhino Africa will recognise that arc – one quiet discovery at a time.
Stuffed with color, journey, and spirit, Bella’s journey evokes
The place Your Story Meets Hers
When your subsequent safari brings you to Silvan Safari, a streak of teal sweeping throughout the sky could really feel splendidly acquainted. There’s one thing unmistakably Bella the Bee-Eater about it, a reminder that Africa’s tales aren’t confined to pages. As an alternative, they play out round you.
In case you’d like your individual story to take flight, you may start planning your safari each time inspiration strikes.
