• Overlanding in Africa

    What are the chances that on a four-week trip through South Africa you are going to get to know a driver ...

    What are the chances that on a four-week trip through South Africa you are going to get to know a driver with four wives; a man who was expelled from high school and now, between stints as a park rang ...

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  • Among Nature's Majesty

    Walking through a Milkwood forest with my guide Tiaan van Dyk is more Hansel and Gretel than I imagined S ...

    Walking through a Milkwood forest with my guide Tiaan van Dyk is more Hansel and Gretel than I imagined South Africa to be. ...

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  • Antarctica: the Great White Continent

    Penguins waddle past our feet on packed snow paths called “penguin highways.” Their turn to feed, they di ...

    Penguins waddle past our feet on packed snow paths called “penguin highways.” Their turn to feed, they dive into the sea, while on a hillside rookery their mate sits on a rock nest holding soon-to-be- ...

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  • Dung Beetles Have Right-of-Way

    Dung beetles have right-of-way here! Nothing else, not even pedestrians, just dung beetles. I’m in South ...

    Dung beetles have right-of-way here! Nothing else, not even pedestrians, just dung beetles. I’m in South Africa and road signs proclaiming this law are everywhere. I first encounter the beetles in a g ...

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