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South Africa’s number one travel and outdoor lifestyle magazine. We pay our own way and tell it like it is. We drive back roads and speak to real people, giving you practical information about affordable destinations in southern Africa. Each issue is crammed with excellent photography, honest gear reviews and delicious recipes to make at home or in the bundu. Whether you’re looking to escape for a weekend or a month, your journey starts here.

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BEHIND THE SCENES • Réunion Island is hiking heaven! Photojournalist Shaen Adey trekked the Grande Randonnée Route 1 (GR R1), a tough 60 km trail that loops around the island’s highest mountain, Piton des Neiges. Read all about it on p 42

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LETTERS

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Q & A • Every month our experts answer your questions about birds, bugs and beasts. Send your photos and questions to editor@gomag.co.za

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Mega spekboom labyrinth in the works

Spitting snakes

BY THE NUMBERS • Keeping tabs on our southern right whales

Become a satellite hunter

Tokara Autumn Open Garden

Baobab Biltong Padstal, Marnitz, Limpopo

Kerstin Heisterkamp & Dietmar Keil • Meet the humans behind Manor House Alpacas. On a smallholding outside Paarl, they raise a herd of nearly 400 alpacas and make products from alpaca wool on site.

BOOKS & MUSIC • A powerful personal account of Zimbabwe’s rhino war, a fascinating book about wild swimming, Ernest Hemingway’s classic parable and Leonard Cohen’s last masterpiece.

MEET THE AUTHOR • Born to a South African mother and an Italian father, Silvana Olivo fell in love with the Zimbabwean wilderness when she was a child. In her 20s during the 1980s, she was part of a militarised campaign to thwart a rhino poaching crisis in the Zambezi Valley, an experience she recounts in her memoir Zambezi Valley: The Lost Stronghold.

ROAD MUSIC

CLASSIC READ

In praise of slap chips • Abigail George can’t get enough.

12 THINGS THE BUSHVELD TAUGHT US • During the filming of our latest Weg Agterpaaie TV series, Sophia van Taak and Toast Coetzer drove 4 000 km and spent five weeks in the outer districts of the North West and Limpopo to see what makes the Bushveld such a fascinating place.

VIVA LA RÉUNION! • The interior of Réunion Island is a mega wonderland of high-altitude volcanic peaks, colourful Creole villages and forests dripping with orchids and ferns. Here’s what you need to know about the Grande Randonnée Route 1 – one of the island’s best trekking trails.

Good bass come to those who wait • The annual Clanwilliam Winter Bass Classic in the foothills of the Cederberg is for serious anglers who don’t believe in luck. Okay, maybe just a little bit…

BACK IN ’NAM • I love the East. But Singapore is expensive and Thailand has been done to death. The travel cliché is that you can have “unspoilt” or “all the mod cons” or “low cost” – pick any two. But one destination offers all three…

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A tour de wors • Sausages are versatile – you can serve them as a side dish, a snack or a full meal. Try one of these recipes and you’ll agree that sausages don’t get enough credit!

Wine for your wors

MAKE LIKE MACGYVER • The best multi-tool can help you fix almost anything in your home, your vehicle and in the campsite. Here are our seven favourites, ranging in size, price and tool arsenal.

RECRUIT A SMARTER HANDYMAN • Avoid expensive mistakes...