Southern Africa

There is a strip of coastline in southern Africa so hostile that Portuguese sailors once called it the “Gates of Hell.” Locals went further, naming it the land God made …

The question comes up every time someone starts planning a Southern Africa safari: Should you book a game lodge or a safari camp? Both put you in the wild. Both …

Before Zimbabwe was a country, it was already a civilisation. Long before any European boot touched southern African soil, a society of Bantu-speaking people called the Shona raised an extraordinary …

Stand on the rim of the Blyde River Canyon in Limpopo Province. The canyon drops 800 metres to the Treur and Blyde rivers below, a landscape of red and brown …

Every visitor to Victoria Falls eventually confronts the same question. It sounds simple. Zimbabwe or Zambia? The honest answer is that it depends on three things: when you are going, …

You hear it before you see it. From a kilometre away, the sound arrives as a low, continuous thunder that sits beneath every other sound in the landscape. Then the …

South African tourism is on a historic run. The country welcomed 10.48 million foreign visitors in 2025, a figure that beats pre-pandemic levels and marks a 17.6% increase over 2024. …

The government censored books about it. Archaeologists who told the truth about it were fired. And for nearly a century, an entire colonial administration insisted that Africans could not have …

The Busanga Plains open before you at sunrise, and the scale stops conversation. Red lechwe leap through shallow water. A lion pride moves through the mist at the far edge …

only sounds are wind, the distant percussion of hooves, and the occasional whoop of a hyena working the edge of the plain. Then, in November, the wildebeest arrive. Tens of …