Travel, explore and experience with these 4x4 and off-road, self-drive adventure destinations and holidays in Africa and Southern Africa.

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We asked 17 seasoned outdoors enthusiasts for ideas to make this year your most memorable year yet. Here are their 101 suggestions about the best destinations, routes and activities.
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Border posts in Africa - are you ready?
Angola Border Post
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A trip to Angola two years in a row? And Capetonian Anton van Schalkwyk says he’s game for a third. This is what he learned, the hard and wild way.
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The magnificent Black Rocks are a huge draw card in northwestern Angola. In the last of our three-part series on Angola, Dale Morris explores an enormous cave and visits one of Africa’s biggest...
Angola | Between black mountains and deep blue sea
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They planned to drive all the way to the Congo River, but Anton and Annemarie Slabbert’s Angola trip abruptly ended at the infamous Acre of Death when the sea claimed their vehicle.
Acre of Death 3, Vistors 0
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Rulan Heunis, a retired Eastern Cape engineer and businessman, has visited southwestern Angola before, but last year he and a guide explored the north and east. In the three months they spent there (...
THE KILLING FIELDS? A Russian T54 tank is part of the landscape close to Quibala. Military vehicles which have been abandoned on the roadside, are a common sight in Angola.  PHOTOGRAPH Mouton van Zyl
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Angola’s stormy past is gradually making way for more tourists and better roads - well, here and there.
A trip down memory lane...
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Angola’s highways are brand spanking new and the landmines have largely been cleared. Dale Morris had the time of his life exploring the parks, deserts, war sites and buzzing cities. In the first of...
Racing the tide among echoes of war
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Tropical thunderstorms battered their convoy on the central Angolan highlands and desert heat scorched them in the lowlands along the west coast. In the second of our three-part series on Angola,...
Angola Part 2 | Where jungle meets desert
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With rocks named Goliath, Lesotho’s Baboon’s Pass is where drivers have to brave rock falls and sudden snow storms − and sometimes have to be airlifted out.
HEIGH-HO, SILVER! André Nel’s Land Cruiser rears up on Baboon’s Pass. PHOTOGRAPH Martin Nel.
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