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Sappi, established in South Africa 85 years ago and now the biggest manufacturer of dissolved pulp in the world, recently received the first-ever sustainable forest management certificate for its local forestry operations.
Get a red marker pen, and an A2 printout of a map of South Africa. Draw a rough circle. This is as good a starting point as any for the big daddy of SA road trips. We went anti-clockwise, but only to catch the west coast flowers in season.
By now we’d been on the road for more than 8000 kilos. It’s that part of every trip where you feel you are getting ready for your own bed, but at the same time you start appreciating every moment on the road a bit more.
“There are no signs, just follow the road until it ends. You’ll know when you get there.” The Forester glides and slides through the sandy Kgalagadi roads, and home feels very far away in this uninhabitable red dune desert. “Accelerate into your mistake” is the local advice if you start drifting in the deeper sand. […]
Discovering an African paradise Look, forgive me. I don’t get to Natal much. I’m from a farm where it never rains, and it’s easy to forget that ‘Tropical’ is a word that isn’t just from bad shampoo ads. But beyond that, I honestly didn’t know paradise like this existed in South Africa. It’s literally monkeys-eating-bananas-and-jumping-between-palm-trees […]
We went to all of South Africa’s UNESCO World Heritage sites. Everyone wants to know what the highlights were. So honestly… this might be the best one. Maybe by far. But you didn’t hear that from me.
The star cluster Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, is incorporated in the six-star logo of the Japanese manufacturer, Subaru. So, it was befitting to visit the Seven Sisters Vineyards close to Stellenbosch, belonging to the Brutus sisters of Paternoster, with the latest top-model
Like most people, I get somewhat philosophical on solo road trips, questioning beliefs and assumptions. For example: Why should we care about nature? An obvious reason is that indigenous animals and plants are a precious resource – without them, our tourism industry would collapse, not to mention our ecosystem. Communing with animals or observing them […]
The thought of horseback riding along the sea is captivating, but it is only possible at a handful of beaches in South Africa. Justus Visagie used a Subaru Forester to find one of these places, where some of the horses are of the amphibious kind.
I started hearing about the famous ‘Desert Tour’, a tour-operated self-drive journey from the Lüderitz in Namibia to Walvis Bay some 1037km in distance. I was tempted to try it out in the Forester 2.5XT
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