Category: Travel

Reading Time: 3 minutesA practical guide to the R332 Baviaanskloof crossing: vehicle choice, route conditions, safety and travelling it responsibly.

Reading Time: 4 minutesZimbabwe’s Zambezi floodplain: the one place in Africa where you walk through big-game country. When to go, how to get there, what it costs.

Reading Time: 5 minutesMalaria-free Big Five safari two hours from Johannesburg, inside a 1.2-billion-year-old extinct volcano.

Reading Time: 4 minutesEtosha: why the waterholes change the safari, when to go, where to stay and how to self-drive it.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is a hill in the far north of South Africa where three countries meet, where a golden rhino smaller than your hand was buried for seven centuries, and where…

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhy the Kalahari Rewards Travellers Who Look Harder Most Southern Africa itineraries are built around one thing: density. Travellers want to see as many animals as possible, as quickly as…

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Park That Has Everything Ask ten international travellers to name a South African park and all ten will say Kruger. Fair enough. But the country’s first UNESCO World Heritage…

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Safari Everyone Overthinks Ask a hundred travellers to name the first safari that comes to mind and most will say the same thing: Kruger. And then, almost immediately, they…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Drakensberg is spectacular, but a mountain holiday rewards preparation more than spontaneity. Weather can change quickly, trail conditions vary, and a route that looks short on a map may…