Not everyone gets the chance to travel to Tanzania, but if you do, you've got to visit the Selous and Tarangire National Parks to spend some time with more wild animals than you'll see in a lifetime. Selous Game Reserve Eyes on you. The Selous Game Reserve is teeming with lions, and as you are allowed to drive anywhere you like in the reserve, you are advised to stay in your vehicle. To enter Selous, Africa's biggest game park, will cost you a pretty penny, but it's worth every cent. The...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rebellie 4×4 Trail near Clarens in the Eastern Free State separates the wheat from the wets, Philip Sackville Scott discovered. The Cruiser is idling as I try to figure out how to...Read more
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