Fly into Bram Fisher International Airport and you’ll find one of South Africa’s easiest cities to get your first self-drive bearings in. Bloemfontein sits flat and open on the highveld, with wide streets, light traffic, and a compact centre you can cover in a single easy loop. Known as the
Two and a half hours north of Johannesburg, the bushveld rises into the sandstone ridges of the Waterberg, a region built for exactly the kind of trip a rental car does best. If you’ve read up on where to spot South Africa’s Big 5 on a self-drive safari, the Waterberg
Touch down at Gqeberha’s Dawid Stuurman Airport and you’re minutes from a city that mixes beachfront living with a genuinely walkable historic centre, the kind of place where a rental car turns a weekend into a proper road trip base for a day trip to Addo Elephant National Park. Locals
Every year between May and July, one of the ocean’s biggest migrations plays out just off the KwaZulu-Natal coast. Billions of sardines move north in a shoal so dense it can stretch for kilometres, pulling dolphins, gannets, sharks and whales along with it in one of the most accessible marine
About two and a half hours east of Johannesburg, where the N4 climbs onto the Mpumalanga escarpment, the road drops you into cool, misty grassland at over 2,000 metres above sea level. This is Dullstroom, a village built around trout dams, gin distilleries and log fires, and it sits just
You do not need a flight to Kruger to watch a lion doze in the shade or a journey of giraffe amble across open grassland. Two and a half hours from Johannesburg, in the malaria-free bushveld of the North West province, Pilanesberg National Park sits inside the crater of an
Long before it became a byword for gorgeous rolling hills, KwaZulu-Natal’s interior was the stage for some of South Africa’s most consequential history. The Battlefields Route strings together the sites of the Anglo-Zulu and Anglo-Boer Wars, Isandlwana, Rorke’s Drift, Blood River, into a single, sobering, unforgettable self-drive. This isn’t a
A great road trip needs three things: a full tank, an open road, and a playlist that matches the mood. South Africa’s landscapes shift so dramatically from region to region that the right soundtrack can make a Karoo straight feel completely different from a coastal cruise or a slow climb
Lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino, the Big 5 earned their name from big game hunters, but today they’re the top of almost every safari-goer’s list for an entirely better reason: the thrill of spotting them from the safety of your own vehicle. South Africa is one of the few
No South African road trip is complete without at least one padstal stop, those roadside farm stalls selling homemade preserves, biltong, koeksisters and fresh farm produce that turn a fuel break into one of the best parts of the drive. From the Karoo’s small-town charm to the fruit farms of
Fly into Bram Fisher International Airport and you’ll find one of South Africa’s easiest cities to get your first self-drive bearings in. Bloemfontein sits flat
Two and a half hours north of Johannesburg, the bushveld rises into the sandstone ridges of the Waterberg, a region built for exactly the kind
Touch down at Gqeberha’s Dawid Stuurman Airport and you’re minutes from a city that mixes beachfront living with a genuinely walkable historic centre, the kind
Every year between May and July, one of the ocean’s biggest migrations plays out just off the KwaZulu-Natal coast. Billions of sardines move north in
About two and a half hours east of Johannesburg, where the N4 climbs onto the Mpumalanga escarpment, the road drops you into cool, misty grassland
You do not need a flight to Kruger to watch a lion doze in the shade or a journey of giraffe amble across open grassland.
Long before it became a byword for gorgeous rolling hills, KwaZulu-Natal’s interior was the stage for some of South Africa’s most consequential history. The Battlefields
A great road trip needs three things: a full tank, an open road, and a playlist that matches the mood. South Africa’s landscapes shift so
Lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino, the Big 5 earned their name from big game hunters, but today they’re the top of almost every safari-goer’s
No South African road trip is complete without at least one padstal stop, those roadside farm stalls selling homemade preserves, biltong, koeksisters and fresh farm
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