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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Gear & Gadgets

Now with a sting in its tail • The recent local introduction of the new Scorpio-N has elevated the Mahindra brand to a new level of refinement, capability and all-round appeal. After attending the launch event on the West Coast, Liana Reiners explains why.

Marching through the Highlands os Scotland • As youngster in my early twenties, I had a gap year and spent some time living in the United Kingdom. However, apart from picking lettuce for McDonald’s and chopping stir-fry for Marks & Spencer I didn’t really travel further than the local pub. This is one of the things I have regretted most, so when the invitation came to join Ineos Automotive in the Scottish Highlands for the launch of the Grenadier, I could hardly contain my excitement!

Movie Magic!

Interesting facts about the area

Unconventionally conventional • As a motoring journalist Anton Willemse Snr tests new vehicles all the time. What doesn’t happen often, however, is driving a brand-new vehicle from a brand-new brand… in another country.

Desolate, yet beautiful • As one of Namibia’s most spectacular and iconic spots, Sossusvlei is not to be missed on your Namibian travels. But what makes this place, located in the southern part of the Namib Desert in the Namib-Naukluft National Park, so special? Nolene Kotze explores.

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The heartbeat of the Kruger • Growing up, one of Natasha Schutte’s most treasured memories and privileges was camping with her grandparents every weekend. As such, she and her family have visited virtually all the camps in the Kruger National Park. One small camp, located in the central part of the park, holds a special place in their hearts.

Lose your heart in the red dunes • Since the completion of his beloved overlanding beast, #HiluxDevilBuild, Stuart Queripel has dreamt of undertaking a proper self-drive (and self-planned) overlanding adventure. The mere mention of wild camping, with the sound of roaring lions lulling you to sleep, was enough to convince his better half, Oksana, to venture out to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park during their annual leave.

Wild and wonderland in Botswana • A loud rumbling tummy awakens me in the dead of the night… I lie stiffly staring into the velvet darkness, then gingerly lean across, drawing my ear to my husband Glen’s stomach. No – it’s not him! I catch my breath – the realisation that a large nocturnal visitor is grazing silently outside. This is wild camping, and this is what we came for – the ultimate Botswana adventure!

There’s gold in them hills! • Roger Gaisford has a Jeep, a CJ2A to be precise, which he bought on a military surplus vehicle disposals sale in Pretoria in 1971. It is one of the 300 or so that were supplied to the South African Defence Force in 1948 by Stanley Motors, the Willys agents in South Africa. He has many fond memories of not only the vehicle, but also the places it has taken him.

The battle of birds and mice • Not many South Africans know that our country has overseas possessions. They are Marion and Prince Edward...