National Parks & Reserves
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Tracking cheetah ain’t easy
$ 0.00Wildlife viewing got a whole lot more exciting when Mountain Zebra National Park acquired, first, four cheetah, then three lion, for its natural precincts. Thing is, this beautiful reserve is a massive sprawling territory — some 28 500 hectares — so even though the cat populations have increased, it takes some cunning sleuthing to come face to face with one.
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Malgas Pont & De Hoop NR
$ 0.00A nature reserve whose name comes from a farm that once bred Andalusian horses… Repository of 1,500 species of limestone-adapted ericas and pincushions and leucadendrons… A place of vleis and flamingos and fish eagles, of miles of bone-white sand dunes, of lobtailing whales in the ocean and planing Cape vultures in the sky. De Hoop is about nature and conservation and peacefulness.
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Gamkaberg Nature Reserve
$ 0.00Gamkaberg, the first conservancy visited in our week-long, 875-kilometre, off-road circular trip through three Cape Nature reserves… Think nicely appointed tented camp (rented out privately to a single group), gas and solar power (plus eco compost loo), birdsong to wake you and to serenade the sundown, long and short hikes, a 4×4 trail.
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Anysberg Nature Reserve
$ 0.00Anysberg, the second conservancy visited in our week-long, 875-kilometre, off-road circular trip through three Cape Nature reserves… Think simple but characterful labourer's cottages, a pleated rim of mountain slopes as backdrop, a reservoir to swim in. Walk on the reserve, sign up for an overnight guided horse trail, try the 4×4 route, or enlist a guide to show you the stars through a telescope.
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Grootvadersbosch Nature Reserve
$ 0.00Grootvadersbosch, the third conservancy visited in our week-long, 875-kilometre, off-road circular trip through three Cape Nature reserves… Think innovative wood cabins with a double-volume entertainment space that opens up on three sides to the surrounding woodland. Walks and hikes in fynbos and rare Tsitsikamma-style indigenous forest
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Victoria Falls in September
$ 0.00Did you know that Makgadikgadi Salt Pans are the remnant of an ancient lake (paleolake) produced by geological uplift which blocked the course of the upper Zambezi ꟷ and this lake eventually created the Victoria Falls? The damming of the river redirected the flow away from where it once met the Limpopo.
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Northern Kruger Remoteness
$ 0.00Fat-girthed baobabs and giant canopied nyala trees. Crocs and hippos. A varied and prolific bird life (think waterbirds and raptors, shimmery-plumaged show-dancers and strutting kommandants). And, if you’re lucky, migrating herds of elephant (depending on the rain and the seasons). But, most of all … Wildness and Solitude, the kind where you’re the only 4×4 on the road.
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Mokala, place of sable & roan
$ 0.00Our excitement spiked a notch when, outlined on a bouldered kopje with the nimble stance of a mountain goat, was the masked face and arched horns of a roan antelope. Next, a harem of kudu females with a dinky calf high-tailed it into the thicket, bobbing pom-poms like white warning flashers.
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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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