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Travel safely through Mozambique

South African travellers to Mozambique often report confrontations with the local police on the Drive Out forum and Facebook page. Last year, Louis Labuschagne from Mahikeng drove to Inhassorro via Komatipoort. They travelled straight through the night and came across a number of road blocks, but never experienced any trouble. Louis says, however, that he will never travel that route at night again. "There are too many unequipped drivers and vehicles who don't dim their...

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Visit Tanzania’s National Parks

When you travel to Tanzania, you've got to visit the Selous and Tarangire National Parks to see the elephants and many other...Read more

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Central Kalahari | To the centre of the most beautiful desert

The Central Kalahari Game Reserve isn’t that far away, but it’s one of the most desolate wilderness areas in Africa. It’s one of the most beautiful too. Olof Bergh spent eight days...Read more

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Bull Run | Running with the old bulls

Thirty men, twelve old cars and the open road. Even before the start of the first South African Bull Run you could sense something big was about to happen. Gerrie van Eeden went along on...Read more

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Serengeti Trip | Part 3

On a self-drive tour of Africa you can’t spend all day spotting birds and taking pictures. Some days you spend crossing borders, chatting with crabby traffic officials and dodging...Read more

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Bôjaankop 4×4 | Drive where baboons stagger

At the Matjiesvlei Holiday Farm in the Little Karoo you have to cross the Gamka River to reach the top of Bôjaankop. Johann Grobler was glad the Gamkapoort Dam’s sluices were closed the...Read more

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Southern and Eastern Cape | In Thomas Bain’s tracks

A circular route through the Langkloof, Wilderness, Swartberg Pass – and a detour through Gamkaskloof – and finally Baviaanskloof in the Eastern Cape. If you think that sounds great,...Read more

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Liuwa Plains | Drenched in Liuwa

The Zambezi was 6 m higher than usual in April this year. Yet Peter and Magda van Noord were game for driving through all this water on their own to the Liuwa Plains National Park. Few have...Read more

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Diep-en-Deur | Coming of age

There’s an oft-forgotten trail hidden in the foothills of the Witberg near Matjiesfontein. Diep-en-Deur is not a trail that was, writes Philip Sackville-Scott, it is a trail on the up. My...Read more

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Rust’s a winner

The Bundu Trail at Rust de Winter is not your friend. Gerrie van Eeden conquered it and deservedly got his sticker, but without the right vehicle and some good friends who know a thing or...Read more

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Richtersveld and Namib | ‘Through the desert on a horse with no name…’

Even though his 1988 Land Cruiser was by far the oldest in a tour group that travelled through the Namib dunes, it was nothing to be ashamed of, says Piet van Heerde. And in those dunes his...Read more

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Mpumalanga | Long live the Lowveld

Just because you’ve had coffee in Kaapsehoop and seen the view at God’s Window doesn’t mean you’ve seen the Lowveld in all its glory – not by a long shot. Gerrie van Eeden...Read more

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From Tanzania to Mozambique

Mtwara (Tanzania) to Pemba (Mozambique) You don’t expect everything to go hunky-dory on a two-month-long tour through the east of Southern Africa in the rainy season. But Megan de Witt...Read more

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Saddle Hill | Dig deep on Saddle Hill

At Saddle Hill in the Namib you have to be pretty hard on your vehicle, and for that matter on yourself too, says Danie Pienaar. The southern Namib is home to some of the highest dunes in...Read more

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Campsite | Rip-rrroaring camping

If there is one campsite in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park where you can escape the big-camp crowds without driving too far, it’s Rooiputs. Lions woke Johan de Smidt up with their...Read more

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Serengeti Trip | Part 2

It’s easy to see why some people want the Victoria Falls to be one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. It also happens to be a stone’s throw from two other world-class...Read more