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How Reliable is a Land Rover?

What can you expect when you join the Land Rover clan? It’s not an easy question to answer.
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Botswana Self-drive Safari – All You Need to Know

FAQs, tips and tricks, basics, and inspiration. All you need to know for your self-drive safari trip to Botswana (and Africa in general)!
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Botswana Self-Drive 4×4 interactive map, info and inspiration

This is the start of a three- week self-drive trip through Botswana, with a huge diversity in landscapes and a wealth of wildlife. Part one is about the border and the first camp near Gaborone. Let’s go!
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Khama Rhino Sanctuary

This small community-based conservation project has big ideas. Come and support their efforts in rhino conservation.
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Kubu Island, Makgadigadi

It’s very hard to describe just how breath-taking and magical the salt pans are, but let’s give it a go!
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Nxai Pan – Perhaps The Most Underrated Park In Botswana

Nxai Pan National Park might not be on your radar when you plan a Botswana trip, but it should be!
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Elephant Sands Lodge – still relevant?

If you want to study elephant behaviour and the herd dynamic a little closer, this is where you come to. Very happy to see that Elephant Sands is still going strong and maintaining its charm
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Crossing Borders: Exploring Victoria Falls

The smoke that thunders! A border, a natural wonder and the largest waterfall in the world
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Chobe Safari Lodge – The Kasane Magic

Sometimes we just need a little more comfort. Things like running water, an electrical socket, or a shower(!). Chobe Safari Lodge has all that – and much more!
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Chobe National Park and Savuti Camp

Chobe National Park, Botswana’s oldest game reserve, offers quite a bit of diversity. It stretches from the Chobe River in the north, with thick woodlands and large herds of animals attracted by the water, to the Savuti marshlands—which are pretty dry these days.
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The Subtle Magic of Mbudi (Khwai)

Water is the buzzword here, right in front of the campsite. A laidback mokoro trip, hippos nearby and elephants grazing just add to the charm.
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Moremi Game Reserve & Third Bridge Camp

A little bit of rain goes a long way to spotting some game! And some noisy neighbours in camp
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DOWNTOWN Maun Tour & Okavango SCENIC Flight

Maun is the centre of the universe when you are in the Okavango region. This is the place to be for a helicopter flight over the Okavango, or a fascinating Cultural Tour
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CKGR – why we head for The Exit

It was all going so well. The Kalahari, man what a fascinating place! Until we need to find the exit…
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Welcome to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve!

Welcome to the CKGR! A dry, hot, dusty, and inhospitable place. So why come here at all?
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Uitspankraal, A Little Oasis in the Biedouw Valley, Cederberg

At the far end of the Biedouw valley, way out in the Western Cape near the Cederberg there’s a little handwritten sign on a hillside letting you know you’re still on the right route…
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A Lap of Corsica – beaches and mountain peaks within minutes

A two-week lap of this fascinating island, by Land Rover. Corsica has a fascinating history But the big draw, in my opinion, lies elsewhere…
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Botswana Self Drive 4X4 Tips & Observations – Africa at its best

You need three senses and some faith to survive a solo self-drive 4×4 in remote Africa!
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Spanish Roadtrip – A Bank Robbery, Breakfast in Gibraltar, Costas and Sierras

We’re on our way down through Spain to Gibraltar to try and find the best Englsih breakfast on the continent!
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Thinking of buying a Land Rover Defender? Here’s the minimum you need to know

After fifteen years of ownership of a gaggle of steeds, let’s look at some (not so) glaringly obvious points of view…
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OFF-GRID HOMESTEADING South Africa-style

Gavin and Janine have created a little bit of magic in the hills beyond Nelspruit (or Mbombela as it is known today). What was once bushveld is now a sustainable, off-grid homestead.
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What is The Magic of the Karoo?

So what is the appeal of living on the moon? A flat and empty, dry and hot, featureless and dusty wasteland? Strange place, the Karoo.
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Umkomaas – a time capsule

Not very far south of Durban is the sleepy village of Umkomaas that seems to have been asleep for two decades…
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The Tragic Fall of MG Rover

It is a curious and rather sad paradox that while Land Rover stands today as a global icon of rugged luxury, the company that gave it life has vanished into the history books.
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The Allure of the Lake District

It’s been raining, it’s been miserable, and it’s been grey and cloudy for weeks now. So what’s the appeal?
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The Land Rover Lightweight

The story of the Land Rover “Lightweight” is perhaps the finest example of military procurement logic meeting automotive reality
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400,000 KM in our Land Rover Defender

This is quite a milestone, so it’s a perfect time to look at ten years of Land Rover ownership. What are the costs, how many repairs and a breakdown or two…
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In The Spirit of Mille Miglia

Everyone has heard of or perhaps seen, the old classic car rallies. This GStaad Cannes rally was in the spirit of that most famous road rally of the 1950s
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A Rocketship on Water – Lelystad RIB Experience

If you’re looking for an adrenaline rush on the water with a bunch of mates come to Lelystad Rib Experience. You’re in for some speed, wind in the hair, sea spray, low flying and big smiles.
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Pilanesberg National Park & Manyane Resort, South Africa

The only thing that can top an African night is an African morning. In contrast to the hasty retreat in the evening, the sun takes its time to greet the chilly dawn. And Manyane campsite offers the perfect jump-off point to explore Pilanesberg Game Reserve.
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