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.

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Adventure Afrika

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BRAIN POWER • Find the places, cities and other relevant information of Africa and the nearby Middle East in the word block. It can appear horizontally, vertically, or diagonally and can be in any direction. Diaresis and circumflex are not used, and the words in brackets are part of the words or per explanation.

Bakkie battle hots up

Lapalala Wilderness School opens new school building

Time to kick up some dust

Continuing to hit the high notes • Built on an all-new platform from the ground up, the Mahindra XUV700 is set to disrupt the South African market with its unmissable design, spirited performance, sophisticated dynamics, sci-fi technology, and world-class safety. Anton Willemse Snr attended the media launch and gives his initial impressions.

GRRReat expectations • A past employer once told her that there is nothing scarier than a woman driving a double cab bakkie. Hold onto your hat buddy, because Liana Reiners attended the recent launch of the Toyota Hilux GR-S and if she had her way, things would be getting a whole lot scarier right about now.

In your face! • The beginning of December marked the launch of the highly anticipated next-gen Ford Ranger. Even during the run-up to the event, it was clear that this was not going to be just a facelift, but a new product to revolutionise the market. Anton Willemse Jnr had the opportunity to see if it had achieved that daunting goal.

Model line-up and pricing

Gear & gadgets

Get blown away

Anything but (s) Lowveld… • For rookie adventurer, Ansuné Breytenbach, an adventure full of excitement behind the wheel of the new Kia Sportage was a baptism of fire as journalist. She came back with memories that will last a lifetime…

Travel guide

Behind the wheel: Kia Sportage • For a trip like this, you need a vehicle with three key attributes. It has to be practical, it has to have decent ground clearance, and it has to be frugal. The new Kia Sportage has all these attributes in the bag, with the added bonus of being very attractive too.

Group therapy at its best • Nervous about joining Simon and Des Steadman of Ultimate Adventures, and a group of strangers on a bucket-list wild camping trip to Mana Pools in Zimbabwe, David Cairncross soon realised that sharing such an exciting experience with likeminded outdoor enthusiasts makes it all the more special.

Choose your Ultimate Adventure • Ultimate Adventures is run by Simon and Des Steadman. They offer top quality self-drive adventure tours throughout the African continent and beyond, always going the extra mile with top-notch catering, courtesy of a chef on each trip. Their trips are immensely popular and the 2023 calendar is filled with amazing bucket list adventures:

Ain’t no mountain high enough… • Back in the 1940s, during World War II, General Patton declared that the USA’s single biggest contribution to the war effort was the introduction of the Willys Overland. Many still regard it as the first-ever off-roader, able to get you wherever you want to go… come hell or high water. That is precisely the mission of the DVR Xtreme 4x4 Rowwe Blixem off-road trip. The goal is simply to find an obscure destination and follow the most challenging route...