Southern Africa

A park roughly the size of Wales that you can drive yourself, with the big five inside it.

Zambia’s largest park, very empty, with the Busanga floodplain in its far north.

Namibia is for driving: long gravel roads between dunes, canyons and a coast the Atlantic keeps cold.

A city under a flat-topped mountain, with beaches, penguins and wine country all within an hour.

Mozambique is the beach and diving end of a Southern African trip: warm Indian Ocean, Portuguese food, and 2,500 km…

Orange dunes standing over a white clay pan, and worth being there in the first hour of light.

A 300 km stretch of coast road between Mossel Bay and Storms River, done by hire car.

Five sand islands off Vilanculos, with high dunes, clear water and the region’s last dugongs.

A salt pan the size of a small country, ringed by waterholes where the animals come to you.

Three valleys of vineyards and Cape Dutch farmhouses, 45 minutes from Cape Town.