WRITING a beach walk EASTERN CAPE Sometimes all it takes is the pungent smell of flowering milkwood on a summer morning, hushed voices in a forest, birdsong in a clearing, cicadas among the duneveld, for... Continue reading a solitude of open spaces RICHTERSVELD The Richtersveld is uncompromising in its austerity. Its bare plains, washed in sunlight, stretch to the base of broad mountains rising over a thousand meters. During the summer the... Continue reading adrift on a sea of grass BOTSWANA For miles there’s nothing to draw the eye – no rise or fall of land, no valley, no ridgeline, just broad-shouldered Kalahari horizons stretching as far as the eye... Continue reading graves of the ancestors KUNENE By morning, a golden light like magma pours from the Zebra Mountains in the east. It flickers between the leaves of the fig and glances across the cool waters... Continue reading the sound of mortars ANGOLA The other Angola is found where the tar roads crumble, rut and decompose into a sandy tracks and where bridges collapse across the boiling rivers that criss-cross the country’s... Continue reading a walk in the wild CEDERBERG Sand, rock, heat, water, stars. These are the elements of the Cederberg, as immutable as time, as silent and enigmatic as space. A world cycling and recycling carbon, silica,... Continue reading in the footsteps of van der Post MULANJE Mulanje is the highest mountain in southern tropical Africa and one of the largest inselbergs on the planet. It gathers itself beneath Africa’s southern Rift and erupts abruptly to... Continue reading
