The Kalahari is a place that takes a short cut to your heart – even though it’s so far away! Maybe the red dunes catch your eye first, or the silhouette of a camel thorn at sun ...

On Thursday, my older brother Neno called and asked whether we wanted to go see the Kuruman River at Van Zylsrus with him and his family. Neno and I had never seen water in this dr ...

A shiny sheet of water, with green grass all around. Sacred ibises patrol the shallows while tens of Egyptian geese, a lone red-knobbed coot and a pair of dabchicks patrol the midd ...

PAUL AND RIANA LOOTS Kalahari Guesthouse Paul: “I grew up about 70 km north of here on a farm called Kaboom, which means grey camel thorn. I still farm there, but we bought this ...

On the last Monday morning of May, I meet guide Thys Burger and two other tourists, Gert and Petro Visser, at Nossob rest camp. The Nossob 4x4 Eco Trail can be booked by a maximum ...

ANDRIES THYS Field guide, Mata-Mata I grew up in Twee Rivieren. My grandfather, Abraham Malgas, taught me about the veld – he was of the generation still born in the park. He wor ...

JOHAN KLOPPERS, FISH HOEK Gear: Canon EOS 7D, Canon 100 – 400 mm lens Camera settings: 1/1 000 second, f7.1, ISO 200 When: 8 March 2011, 4.32 pm SAMEVLOEIING This waterhole is a ...

ED AYLMER, JOHANNESBURG Occupation: Retired engineer Number of park visits: About 25 Favourite camps: “Nossob, for its remoteness and proximity to Cubitje Quap waterhole, one of ...

SIMPLE vs ONCE-COMPOUND vs TWICE-COMPOUND The trees and shrubs described here have simple, oncecompound or twice-compound leaves. A simple leaf has an undivided blade, although it ...

HOW TO CROSS THE BORDER The border post at Mata-Mata connects the Kgalagadi to Namibia but it’s currently closed due to Covid restrictions. Twee Rivieren is also a border post an ...