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A BIRD IN A TREE • SOMETIMES, THE STRANGEST THINGS STICK WITH YOU AS YOU GROW AND TRAVEL. YOU JUST NEED TO PUT IT INTO CONTEXT

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HONEY, CLEAR MY SCHEDULE WEEKEND RESET • EXPLORE YOUR TOWN, ONE EVENT AT A TIME

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ADVENTURE AWAITS IN ELGIN • THERE ARE A HUNDRED REASONS TO VISIT THE ELGIN VALLEY YOU – CAN FIND MANY OF THEM IN A CORKED BOTTLE – BUT WE WERE HEADING THERE FOR JUST ONE: THE HOTTENTOTS HOLLAND NATURE RESERVE CAPE CANOPY TOUR ZIP-LINE COURSE

NEW PLACES TO LAY YOUR HEAD • A SLEW OF LODGES AND CAMPS ARE OPENING ACROSS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA FOR YOUR SAFARI PLEASURE

BOAT STORY • THE UNEXPECTED TALE OF SIBUSISO SIZATU, A RURAL HERD BOY WHO SAILED FROM CAPE TOWN TO RIO

SUMPTUOUS LIVING IN THE OVERBERG • SAY ‘GAME RESERVE’, AND THE HILLS OUTSIDE BONNIEVALE DO NOT SPRING READILY TO MIND

PUT YOUR NOSE IN A BOOK • SOME DAYS, YOU JUST CAN'T GET OUT THERE AND HAVE AN ADVENTURE. ON THOSE DAYS, ADVENTUROUS STORIES ARE JUST THE TICKET

NATURE'S GIFT • STEP INTO A LAND OF FAIRY TALES AND NATURAL WONDER WHEN VISITING HOGSBACK IN THE EASTERN CAPE

CULTURE SHOCK • FROM A HAIR-RAISING MOTORCYCLE RIDE TO BECOMING A SUSPECTED DRUG MULE, A DREAM TRIP TO VIETNAM HAD THIS SOLO TRAVELLER CONSIDERING CALLING HOME TO MOMMY ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION

WEEKEND ESSENTIALS • BE READY FOR EVERY WEEKEND ADVENTURE

INTO THE WILD WE GO • WILD MUSHROOMS, SEAWEED AND SHELLFISH GALORE, EDIBLE WEEDS AND LEAVES, ROOTS, SHOOTS, AND MORE. UNLEASH YOUR INNER WILDLING WITH A VELD & SEA FORAGING WORKSHOP. ROBYN SIMPSON ARRIVED CLUELESS AND LEFT WITH A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE

BACK TO OUR ROOTS • DE HOOP NATURE RESERVE IS HOME TO MANY FINE THINGS – WHALES, BIRDS, ANTELOPE – AND NOW THE ORIGINS OF EARLY SOUTHERN SAPIENS BEHAVIOUR EXHIBITION, AN EXTRAORDINARY DEEP DIVE INTO THE SOUTHERN CAPE'S ANCIENT SECRETS

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SILHOUETTES AND SHADOWS • THERE'S AN ART TO PLAYING WITH LIGHT IN SUCH A WAY THAT YOU CAN PRODUCE MESMERISING IMAGES AND GREG DU TOIT HAS MASTERED THE ACT OF DOING SO

IS RHINO IVF A SAVIOUR? • A RHINO EMBRYO WAS SUCCESSFULLY IMPLANTED IN A SURROGATE IN A LEAP FORWARD IN A VERY LONG PROJECT TO SAVE THE NORTHERN WHITE RHINO. LORRAINE KEARNEY EXPLORES RESPONSES TO THE BREAKTHROUGH

QUINTESSENTIAL KAROO • PHOTOJOURNALIST JUSTIN FOX VISITS SAMARA KAROO RESERVE'S NEW OFF-GRID PLAINS GAMP, WHICH OFFERS A WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE IN A SUBLIME CORNER OF THE GREAT KAROO CELEBRATED BY EVE PALMER IN HER FAMOUS BOOK, THE PLAINS OF CAMDEBOO

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UNIQUE • ON ST HELENA, ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST REMOTE ISLANDS, LISA ABDELLAH EXPLORES THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN ADVENTURE TOURISM AND CONSERVATION

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TO THE MAX • TRAVELLING THROUGH THE GARDEN ROUTE AREA IS A BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURE DN ITS OWN, DOING IT IN AN ISUZU D-MAX X-RIDER ADDS AN EXTRA LAYER OF EXCITEMENT

SAILING IN THE LAND THE WORLD FORGOT • FROM AZURE WATERS TO LUSH FORESTS, MADAGASCAR IS AN ISLAND WORTH DISCOVERING. SUE ADAMS DECIDED TO DO JUST THAT ABOARD A YACHT AS IT DRIFTED PAST THE AREA'S NORTH-WESTERN ISLANDS

AN ATHENIAN STREET ART ADVENTURE • KNOWN FOR ITS HISTORY AND BEING THE BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY, ATHENS IS REARING ITS HEAD AS THE PERFECT DESTINATION FOR THOSE SEEKING AWESOME STREET ART

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