Oh, Glorious Garden Route Rivers!

The Garden Route is one of South Africa's most popular holiday destinations. The beaches are beautiful and the forests almost sacred. And then there are the rivers! Here's your guide to paradise on water.

Cracking Egg Recipes!

Treat your loved ones (or a whole rugby team) to a hearty brunch with these egg-cellent recipes.

Wild Coast, Distilled

The Wild Coast lives up to its name: It is wild. It's remote, the roads are mostly poor and there isn't a Woolies insight. But it's also full of life. The landscape is scattered with villages and subsistence crops, and goats and cattle graze wherever they want. In fact, finding a secluded corner is surprisingly difficult! But we were determined to do just that. Here's your guide to Dwesa, Cwebe, and Hluleka nature reserves...

Take a Hike - Try a Trail at Tomjachu

Walk with a giraffe over grassy plains, with a bushbuck through the thickets, and with a klipspringer to the top of a rocky hill.

Glendonald Cottage, Groot Winterhoek Mountains

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Answer the Call of the Waterberg

Come experience this unique area in full: its animals, its landscapes, and its people.

Naa Na Na Na–vara!

Just like The Beatles advised Jude to do, Nissan South Africa have taken a slightly sad song and made it much better. We’re talking about the new and improved Nissan Navara, which is now built-in the Rosslyn plant near Pretoria.

Protecting the Ghost of the Bushveld

As poaching takes on pandemic proportions, the plight of pangolins across Africa is dire. Thank goodness for people like Professor Ray Jansen, who are fighting tooth and nail to save these seldom-seen creatures.

Paw Patrol!

Your best friend is made for the great outdoors. These readers explain how they take their dogs on road trips, and how they add smiles to their lives.

That's a Wrap!

If you have a packet of tortillas in the pantry, you can whip up a quick and tasty meal whenever you want. Here are some ideas.

The Karoo's Prince Charming

"Prince Albert takes the Karoo’s open spaces, stars, and silent nights, and sprinkles it with old-fashioned cinema houses, jaunty vintage stores, and art. Where else will you find a dairy and a gin bar in the same street?"

Farm Life Is the Good Life

"The tiny town of Tarkastad is in a mountainous knuckle of the Eastern Cape. Gravel roads take you past flocks of sheep and the odd steenbok to these peaceful guest farms."

Back in the Day

"The Union-Castle Line, 1900-1977"

Walk wild in leopard country

Want to sleep in the veld and listen to the calls of wild animals, far from the safety of the rest camps? Bring your backpack and hike the four-day Mphongolo Trail in the Kruger Park.

Pathway to Petra

Starting in 2018, Patrick and Marie Gurney set out on an 18-month overland journey from France to South Africa. In this final chapter of their Travel Journal, they explore Jordan.

A delicate balance

The winners of the 57th annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were announced late in 2021.

Whimsical West Coast escapes

From sleeping in a shack that hugs the shoreline to glamping in a field of Namaqualand daisies, spice up your next weekend away with these six unique accommodation options on the West Coast.

Mr Popularity

The Tiguan – a compact family SUV – is Volkswagen’s bestselling car globally. The current version has been modernised, but it’s obvious that the German giant isn’t going to mess around with a winning recipe.

Othmane Zolati

The 27-year-old recently completed a four-year, 30000 km journey on foot, bicycle and skateboard through 24 African countries, finishing at the southernmost tip of the continent in Cape Agulhas. Watch his documentary Africa and I on Showmax.

TAKE A HIKE

A mountain full of flowers

BACK IN THE DAY KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, 1992

CHRISTIE FOURIE from Brackenfell writes: In the winter of 1992, six other students and I from the Dagbreek men’s residence in Stellenbosch left Cape Town on a trip to what was then the Eastern Transvaal. Our destination? The Kruger Park!

In vellies we trust

Which shoes are you wearing as you walk into 2022? Sophia van Taak makes the case for velskoens.

Wake up on the Wild Coast

The Wild Coast might be rugged and remote, but it has no shortage of comfortable places to stay. These 10 spots have soft mattresses, level camping stands and splendid views of the coastline.

PROFILE: The old man and the kloof

Next time you drive through the Baviaanskloof, pull over at Babes seWinkel and say hello to Gustav Nortjé, the oom behind the cash register and a storyteller extraordinaire.

Put Simon's Town on your radar

Simon’s Town has been the headquarters of the South African Navy for more than two centuries. But you don’t need a military rank to enjoy the sun and the sea. Here’s your guide.

Turkish delights

On an epic overland journey from France to South Africa, Patrick and Marie Gurney take a turn through Turkey, a country of deep-rooted culture and calming coastlines.

Vaalwater Hotel, Limpopo

Vaalwater’s “drab”name is misleading– the past decade or so has seen itstep into its role as headquarters of theWaterberg with aplomb.

Six fuss-free dishes

These easy-to-make recipes will become family favourites and won’t leave you with a pile of dishes afterwards.

The man with no name

Sometimes you meet people on your travels that leave a lifelong impression. And sometimes they have no name. François Haasbroek remembers two encounters in the USA.

East, west, local is best

How do you fall in love with South Africa again? One way is to travel on dirt roads from Lambert’s Bay to Morgan Bay and back! Come, rediscover your homeland.