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For more than 25 years, Getaway Magazine has been inspiring people to explore and experience Africa. Enjoy weekends, wildlife and wonderment every month with Getaway's fun and informative articles and breathtaking travel photography. Expect a mix of all the very best places to go and things to do in Africa.

ALL THE FEELS • TRAVEL WRITERS HAVE FEELINGS, TOO. AND A (SLIGHTLY CRAZY) HOPE THAT THEIR WORDS MIGHT ACTUALLY CHANGE THE WORLD

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TRADING PLACES • The annual Hermanus Whale Festival celebrates the migration of southern right whales to southern African waters to calve. Many creatures – from multitudes of tiny ladybugs to millions of wildebeest in the Serengeti – undertake momentous journeys across the globe. And many arouse questions that remain unanswered

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What’s On This Month

SHARING IS CARING YAMAS! • SEARCHING FOR SERIOUSLY GOOD FOOD WITH SOUL? HERE’S WHY CAPE TOWN’S NEW CYPRIOT-GREEK TAVERNA, OUZERI, IS THE NEXT BEST THING TO HOPPING ON A PLANE

Share Your Shot • OUR CHOICE OF READERS’ TRAVEL PHOTOS FROM SOCIAL MEDIA

News and Views From the Final Frontier… • ONLINE, IN JUNE, WE REPORTED ON A GROUP OF BRAVE SOUTH AFRICAN HIKERS WHO CAST OFF THEIR CLOBBER IN CELEBRATION OF WORLD NAKED HIKING DAY…

TALES OF A BLACK MERMAID • WHAT DO A BLACK MERMAID AND A WHITE SHARK HAVE IN COMMON? THEY’RE BOTH FEARLESS, SHARP AND HAPPIEST IN THE OCEAN DEPTHS. AND THEY’RE NAMED ZANDI. CONSERVATIONIST AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST ZANDILE NDHLOVU IS NOT ONLY THE FIRST FREEDIVING INSTRUCTOR TO COME OUT OF SOWETO, SHE’S ALSO THE FIRST BLACK INSTRUCTOR IN THE COUNTRY

Zandi’s DIVE HOTSPOTS

ISLAND MADNESS • WHISKY, LITERATURE AND A MADDENING GOLF COURSE… MATTHEW HOLT BRAVES CRAZY WEATHER AND A TRIO OF BUST-SHAPED MOUNTAINS IN SCOTLAND’S INNER HEBRIDES

A GOOD GRILLING • THE BRAAI IS HERE TO STAY, OF THAT THERE’S NO DOUBT. THE CONNECTION TO A SIMPLER TIME, A PRIMAL PAST, A COMPANIONABLE COMING-TOGETHER IS POWERFUL. ACCOMPANIED BY THE BEST INGREDIENTS AVAILABLE (FROM WOOLWORTHS, OF COURSE), IT’S A NO-BRAINER

LET’S GET THIS FIRE STARTED • MATTHEW STERNE WANTS TO HELP YOU BRAAI BETTER – AND MORE SUSTAINABLY

TIPPING THE SCALES • SOUTH AFRICA’S MARITIME CONNECTIONS HAVE LONG HAD A POWERFUL INFLUENCE ON ITS CULINARY TRADITIONS. BUT TO HARNESS THE OCEAN’S OMEGA-RICH MORSELS – AND TO DO SO SUSTAINABLY – IS ANOTHER THING ALTOGETHER, WRITES LOUZEL LOMBARD STEYN

FREEDOM BLOWS • BRIGHT SKIES AND PALM TREES, WARM BLUE WATER AND A GALE-FORCE WIND… WHEN KITESURFERS THINK OF MAURITIUS THEY’RE USUALLY FOCUSED ON LE MORNE, WHICH IS GLOBALLY RECOGNISED AS A BEST-ON-EARTH WAVE-RIDING HOTSPOT. BUT THERE IS FABULOUS LAGOON RIDING – SANS WAVES – ALONG THE ISLAND’S LESS FAMILIAR EAST COAST, TOO

2022/2023 Getaway GALLERY • AFRICA’S PREMIER PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

INTRODUCING OUR 2022/2023 PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

KRUGER CAPTURED • HIS ABILITY TO CAPTURE ANIMALS IN MOMENTS WHEN THEIR PERSONALITIES ARE IN FULL FLIGHT MAKES ARMAND GROBLER A PHOTOGRAPHER TO WATCH. HE’S NOT ONLY AN IMAGE-MAKER, BUT A COMPELLING VISUAL STORYTELLER WHOSE GIFT IS EVIDENT IN THESE HIGHLIGHTS FROM HIS FIRST BOOK, PHOTO SAFARI KRUGER

THE KINDEST CUT • PART BARBARITY, PART ACT OF LOVE, A RHINO DEHORNING IS A BIT LIKE WATCHING SOMEONE YOU CARE FOR GO THROUGH AN AMPUTATION: YOU KNOW IT’S FOR THE BEST BUT THAT DOESN’T MAKE IT ANY EASIER TO WATCH

A TIME TO HEAL • THE SIZE OF A SMALL COUNTRY AND YET IT FLIES UNDER THE RADAR, MADIKWE GAME RESERVE IS NOT ONLY A CONSERVATION SUCCESS STORY, BUT A SLICE OF RECLAIMED WILDERNESS WHERE DEEPLY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE ENVIRONMENT ARE FORGED. TWO WRITERS RETURN FROM THE BUSH, HUMBLED AND INVIGORATED, WITH TALL TALES AND...