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Adventure nation • SOUTH AFRICA’S ACCESS TO AN EXTRAORDINARY RANGE OF OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES MEANS YOU NEVER NEED TO TRAVEL FAR FOR A THRILL

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REDISCOVERING PILANESBERG • TAKING A BUSH BREAK AFTER MONTHS OF LOCKDOWN GAVE AIWEKHOE IYAHEN A RENEWED SENSE OF THE NATURAL WONDER ON GAUTENG’S DOORSTEP

LIFE BEHIND (HANDLE) BARS • ELISE KIRSTEN UNCOVERS SOME OF SOUTH AFRICA’S MOST SUBLIME MOUNTAIN-BIKE TRAILS, WHERE EXHILARATION AND NATURE COLLIDE

We asked some of SA’s top mountain bikers which local trails are their favourites and why.

Flavours so fyn • BOTANICAL INFUSIONS AND EDIBLE FLOWERS ARE REVIVING THE MODERN TASTE EXPERIENCE. JARED RUTTENBERG EXPLORES THREE UNIQUELY SOUTH AFRICA WAYS TO AWAKEN YOUR PALATE

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TAZ-MANIA • FAR-FLUNG AND FULL OF ODDBALLS. PICKING UP A TASMANIAN HITCHHIKER OPENS THE WINDOW ON A HEINOUS HISTORY

ICON WITH A CAUSE • A LAND ROVER DEFENDER EXPEDITION NAVIGATING THE WESTERN CAPE’S BACKROADS BENEFITS LOCAL COMMUNITIES ALONG THE DUSTY WAY

Africa’s most well-travelled man

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Heaven’s perspective: AFRICA FROM ABOVE • A DECADE AGO, JAN AND JAY ROODE LEFT A CORPORATE LIFE IN PURSUIT OF ADVENTURE. WITH JUST 60 HOURS UNDER HIS BELT, JAN TOOK OFF IN THEIR MODIFIED JABIRU AIRPLANE, JAY BESIDE HIM, CAMERA IN HAND. TEN YEARS, 1 000 HOURS AND 100 0000 NAUTICAL MILES LATER, THE ROODES HAVE HAD COUNTLESS ADVENTURES AND AN EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTION OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS TO PROVE IT

GUARANTEED FOR LIFE • A LIFETIME WARRANTY IS ONE OF THE MARKETING WORLD'S STRANGEST, SMARTEST AND MOST-ENTICING INVENTIONS. GEAR EDITOR MATTHEW STERNE LOOKS AT BRANDS WHICH OFFER IT – AS A POWERFUL SALES TOOL BUT ALSO AS A GENUINE ECO-CONSCIOUS PROMISE

What does a lifetime warranty actually guarantee?

HALCYON DAYS • SEARCHING THE WILD COAST FOR THE ELUSIVE MANGROVE KINGFISHER INSPIRES ORNITHOLOGICAL ANGST AND WONDER IN JESSICA NICHOLSON

FEATHERY FACTS

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TOUR DE KAROO • THE KAROO CAN PASS BY IN AN AIR-CONDITIONED BLUR BY CAR; ENDLESS SHRUBS AND FLOCKS OF SHEEP MERGING WITH ONE ANOTHER. BUT TO CYCLE IS TO GET TO KNOW THE SMELL OF THE VELD, THE RICH COLOURS OF THE EARTH, THE SOUND OF A CREAKING WINDMILL … AND THE FOOD!

Five Karoo cycle trails to try

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Following Fiela se kind • FIELA’S CHILD WENT ON A JOURNEY OF LOVE, DISPOSSESSION AND TRIUMPH IN LATE 19TH-CENTURY SOUTH AFRICA. WE FOLLOWED SUIT 100-ODD YEARS LATER, IN A LITTLE HYUNDAI HATCHBACK

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THE GRAIL OF TRAIL • NOTHING RESETS YOUR SOUL LIKE AN EXHILARATING, FREE-RANGING RUN IN A PLACE OF EXCEPTIONAL NATURAL BEAUTY. HIT THAT MOST LEGENDARY TRAIL OF THEM ALL – THE OTTER HIKING TRAIL – BUT THIS TIME, SWAP YOUR HIKING BOOTS FOR RUNNING SHOES

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Watch out when The Otter bares its fangs

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