Adventure Afrika

Adventure Afrika: a new, exciting and diverse magazine title which will be printed alongside an Afrikaans offering – Avontuur Afrika. Aimed at outdoor and adventure enthusiasts, Adventure-Avontuur Afrika will bring your dream trips to life with engaging content, packaged within multiple platforms to accommodate and cater to our audience preference. The core content pillars being entertainment, education and awareness; the content promises to push boundaries and showcase a world of adventure to print and digital audiences alike.

A natural transition

Adventure Afrika

Over to>> YOU!

BRAIN POWER

Gear & gadgets • Over the past year, we have featured some of the coolest gadgets on these pages. With Christmas around the corner, we pick our favourites to delight and surprise the adventurer in your life.

Built in Africa to take on the world • Bushtech’s aluminium canopies are perfectly suited for your lifestyle and specific needs, no matter where adventure takes you. As ANTON WILLEMSE explains, they provide great solutions, whether you’re on a family vacation or a Cape to Cairo overlanding trip.

MAKING HEADLINES

X marks the spot • The Wildtrak X is the latest addition to Ford’s Ranger line-up. Featuring a host of new trail-ready technologies and equipment, LIANA REINERS explains why it can make your dreams of adventure come true.

Looking back in time • Our regular readers should, by now, be well acquainted with the ‘Bush Run’ gang. This group of Land Rover owners have two things in common: an obsession with the brand and a sense of adventure like few others we know! Most recently, they took off on an adventure to explore the area around Machadodorp. NICO DENNER shares the experience.

More about Bush Run • A group of adventurous Land Rover owners and enthusiasts regularly undertake Bush Runs to explore the rugged terrain and beauty our country has to offer. All funds raised are donated to organisations that care for the less fortunate. Contact Nico Denner on +27 83 653 0864 for further information or visit the group’s Facebook page: Land Rover Bush Run.

Take memories, leave only footprints • A place of big skies and open pastureland, the Free State is the near-perfect road trip destination. Broad horizons are interrupted only briefly by a smattering of small towns and villages, ideal to pop in for mementos or local delicacies from the many farm stalls. MARY WILLEMSE and her girls recently headed to the cherry capital of South Africa, Ficksburg and Clocolan.

Made for road trips: Living a big life in the Kia Carnival

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Get in and go with Kia • Everyone loves a good road trip – and with a country as beautiful as South Africa, it’s easy to see why. We share some of our favourite road trip destinations – get in and go!

Always a winner! • As the year draws to a close, the annual prizegiving ceremonies occur at most schools. We always try to guess which camps in the Kruger National Park will receive the top awards, but it remains a difficult task! However, one category we never have any doubts about relates to the trophy for versatility – which, in our minds, will always go to the Letaba rest camp, ideally located midway between the southern and northern borders of the park.

The Maginificent Seven • Six of the Magnificent Seven’s tusks are displayed in the Letaba Elephant Museum, including those of Dzombo, Kambaku, Mafunyane, Ndulamithi, Shawu and Shingwedzi. The tusks of the seventh member, Joao, were damaged in 1984 and never retrieved. The museum was the brainchild of the then chief ranger, Dr U De V Pienaar, who used these elephants as an example of the Kruger National Park’s conservation success stories. He dubbed the group of bulls the Magnificent Seven, based on the eponymous 1960 Hollywood film. The...