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News and Views From the Final Frontier…
A porcupine has no mercy when defending [itself]. We watched a young lion who was desperate for food kill a porcupine in the Kruger last year. The way that the lion was needled and injured by the porcupine’s quills, I doubt he survived. Spunky little
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Campfire Chronicles
As the scent of hot cross buns permeates the air and the promise of a long weekend beckons, my mind invariably drifts to the great outdoors. For me, the Easter holidays aren’t just about chocolate eggs; they’re about packing up the car, leaving the d
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Rising From The Ashes
Around midnight on a Thursday in June last year, a fire started at Green Safari’s Ila Safari Lodge in Kafue National Park, Zambia. By sunrise the entire boma area (reception, dining, bar and pool) was gone. Fortunately, the guest rooms remained intac
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Magical Moments Captured In Time
When Evan Naudé started an internship at a local newspaper in the town he grew up in, little did he know that it would kick-start a career in adventure. After a working holiday in England, he returned to Vredenburg on the West Coast and took a positi
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Stargazing
Bresser offers a range of astronomy telescopes, from beginner-friendly refractor telescopes, such as the Sirius 70/900 AZ Refractor Telescope - 70 mm (R3 799 inc. vat) and the Taurus 90/900 MPM Refractor Telescope - 90 mm telescopes (R7 799 inc. vat)
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Group Editor MEGAN PAULSE Editorial Team Managing Editor ALAN VALKENBURG Chief Copy Editor ROSHAAN BOUWER Deputy Chief Copy Editor SHANEEN NOBLE Senior Copy Editor and Features Writer LISA ABDELLAH Features Writer LORRAINE KEARNEY Creative Team Art D
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Honey, Clear My Schedule weekend Reset
6-7 April SANDRINGHAM FARM, STELLENBOSCH This event embraces our responsibility to safeguard our resources - soil, water, forests, minerals and irreplaceable wildlife - and forges a harmonious connection between humanity and wildlife. There will be e
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A Sri Lankan Odyssey
It’s pouring with rain, and the four of us, sharing two umbrellas, are standing between two gigantic lion’s paws. Like a scene straight out of Lord of The Rings, the pair of monumental paws form what was once the base of a whole lion, created from as
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A Beginner's Guide To BALANCE
FOLLOW US MEED MORE TRAVEL INSPO? getaway.co.za @GetawayMagazine I'd just finished high school when my boyfriend’s parents, the Hoskens, decided a long haul through Namibia was a fitting way to celebrate school being out forever. Before I met the Hos
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Natural wonders
Even if we cannot name them, we all know about the Seven Wonders of the World. It can get confusing, as the lists have changed throughout the years, birthing various Seven Wonders lists. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which never change, inc
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The Biggest And The Most Beautiful
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, September: Stepping out of the aeroplane, the heat hit like a wall. You could feel the moisture being sucked out of your body. It was the midst of the dry season, and just before Suicide Month, as locals call October. Becaus
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Paradise Found
I’d dreamt of visiting an island paradise, and a trip to the Seychelles in early December meant starting my summer with a bang. There was a slight hiccup, when my flight was delayed by four hours, but I love warm weather, so I forgot all about that o
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Magical Adventures
As a young child, I never really dreamed of travelling overseas. All my adventures were in and around Cape Town and the Western Cape, and to me, every trip was simply magical -even the one where I cut my knee after not watching where I was walking an
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Supersonic Flights Return
In years gone by, you could hop on a Concorde in NYC and be in London in time for brunch. A three-hour trip. Bliss. Like Woodstock, the first flight was also in 1969. But the noise (sonic boom, anyone?) and the fuel bill were heavy - 2 179 km/h will
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Peace, Love and Tents
In 1969, the world changed. Hello Woodstock, three days of music and peace, and mud that has never seen its equal. It didn’t take place in the town of Woodstock but in the nearby town of Bethel, despite its name. Today, the Bethel Woods Center for th
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Look To The Stars
Paying attention to the moon every month might seem like something only the tides and werewolves do, but taking an interest in the moon’s phases and the opportunity for outdoor adventures infuses our nocturnal lives with magic. While only 15 percent
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Adventure Awaits
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The Tip Of The Iceberg
CATCH ALEX OR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL (DStv 181) This article is based on an interview with Alex Honnold and quotes from Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold and National Geographic’s Free Solo. It’s taken more than three weeks, but we have finally re
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Put Your Nose In A Book
BY HEDLEY TWIDLE Jonathan Ball, R295 A man, a desire to see the world and a need to write it all down. This is not your average travel book; instead, we are invited along on the adventure. It’s a book of stories of faraway places that we ache to visi
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Living Off The Land
In the old days, before maize was planted across huge tracts of Africa, before cheap fast food, and convenient, processed ingredients were on sale at the local supermarket, people used what the land what nature - gave them. A lot of this ancient know
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Makgadikgadi Fit For A King
There is no place on Earth quite like Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Pans. In the dry season, it is an alien landscape of nothingness, empty of sound and life, except for the extraordinary stars. In the wet season, you’re on another planet The rains bring p
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Plentiful Plett
‘Platt’ means different things depending on your age. If you’ve just finished Matric, it probably means freedom, rage and parties, and doing the sorts of things that teenagers - who have been worrying about their exams for the last few months but are
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Contributors
PARADISE FOUND (P 96) Born and bred in Cape Town, Maegan-Leigh embodies the spirit of coastal living with her love for walks on the beach and basking in the sunshine. Having recently caught the travel bug, she set out on two island getaways within a
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The Expedition
Who Mikey Schaefer Aclimberwho has done first ascents on the tallest walls in Patagonia Hazal Findlay A British climber with a lot of big wall and sea-cliff experience Dr Heïdi Sevastra, A glaciologist who works for the Arctic Monitoring Association
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Snapshot
WHERE ON EARTH? ON FLY RANCH IN NORTHERN NEVADA, THE FLY GEYSER IS A 'WHIMISICALLY COLOURED AND FANTASTICALLY SHAPED DESERT MARVEL'. MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 1,5 M HIGH AND 3.7 M WIDE, THE GEOTHERMAL GEYSER, MADE UP OF THREE MOUNDS, WAS ACCIDENTALLY C
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Marvelous Margate
About 127 km south-west of Durban and 20 km south-west of Port Shepstone lies Margate, a coastal resort town in KwaZulu-Natal. Named by an English surveyor in 1908 after the British seaside resort in county Kent by the same name, the South African Ma
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West Coast Chill
Before bidding farewell to the thick heat and absurd UV index that has carried Cape Town into 2024, set time aside for one particularly spectacular day trip. It won’t take that long. If you’re driving from Cape Town's city centre, it will be a three-
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Carnival Atmosphere
We had a bit of a ‘duh’ moment in preparing for this month's motoring feature. Because we knew we were preparing ‘the Kruger issue’, our thoughts immediately turned to 4×4 vehicles (and what we had available for testing) and what all-wheel drive (AWD
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First-timer
‘This will be my first time on a safari,’ I told my travel partner Helen as we travelled to Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve. ‘Wait … What?’ she said, sounding genuinely shocked. ‘How can that be?’ I responded with a shrug and uncontrollable, nerv
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