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Mapungubwe & Tshugulu Eco Trail
$ 0.00We were standing on the cliff edge of the lozenge-shaped hill kingdom. This, according to our mischievous guide Cedric Sethlako, was the ‘proposal spot’. Here, he said, a suitor would make his lady love teeter while deciding on a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ to his marriage proposal (bones at the foot of the precipice were testament to wrong decisions made in the past).
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Namibia – Wild Horses of Garub
$ 0.00We were completely unsure of whether we’d see them, the desert horses of Garub. We’d been this way before, many years earlier, and found not a hoof print. This time, the dice rolled in our favour.
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Bastervoetpad, a pass to be reckoned with
$ 0.00Our two 4x4s bounced, swayed, tilted, and slid. In places it was clear local farmers had packed stones into the worst of the ditches and washaways (not that this made our going any easier), and often stray fallen boulders encroached onto the rudimentary track.
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Hot Air Ballooning over Sossusvlei, Namibia
$ 0.00The gentle, imperceptible ascent, a silence so immense you hear your own ears ringing, ripples and curves of copper sand from a kestrel’s perspective, the soaring weightlessness … it’s not every day you have the opportunity (or the means) to venture on a hot air balloon trip.
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Swaziland – Conservation & Kamikaze Drivers
$ 0.00It was dry, very dry. Dust tailed us as we drove, on a road left to the vagaries of the erosive elements and the passage of vehicles. Our 4x4s came out of a curve, and suddenly there they were ꟷ Africa’s most pursued wild animal: rhino. And we’d hardly entered the gates of Hlane Royal National Park! We were also the only two cars on the road, in spite of the line of Dutch and Italian tourists at the entrance.
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Swartberg Pass, Prince Albert & Swartrivier Olive Farm
$ 0.00It’s the artisan lemon ice-cream that did it. Wrapped in a bright yellow cellophane parcel on a pretty flower plate, you peel away the shiny paper to find a whole frosted lemon with a tiny lopped-off lid. Dip your spoon inside to scoop out a mouthful of the creamiest, lemoniest, most lip-smacking ice cream you will ever remember eating. Not too sweet, just tart enough. And that’s why we keep on going back…
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Papkuilsfontein, A Farm stay in the Great Karoo
$ 0.00Papkuilsfontein farm is a place of merino sheep, rock canyon walls, Verreaux’s eagles and flat Karoo vistas. It also has the most authentic stone cottages around to give you a taste of real farm life. Sitting on the escarpment of the Bokkeveld mountains in the Great Karoo, the farm is just south of Nieuwoudtville, a tiny settlement whose main reason for existence is the spring flower displays erupting annually from arid-soil corms and tubers.
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