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There is a road in Mpumulanga with 22km of S-bends so perfectly proportioned it will bring a shiver to the spine of any keen biker. Anton Crone made the pilgrimage from Cape Town.
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When I returned from a visit to the Maasai Mara and surrounding plains, a few disappointed tourists who had been there asked if I had found the Maasai. Well, they're everywhere, I said. No, no, one explained, we mean the real Maasai. They must have meant the Maasai as seen on TV, and that's as [...]
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In Cape Maclear on the shores of Lake Malawi, fishermen fuel the lamps of their boats and depart for deeper waters. Darkness descends and in the distance the lamps ignite in quick succession dancing by the hundreds upon the water. It has been like this for centuries. On witnessing the spectacle, British missionary, David Livingstone, [...]
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There is a road in Mpumulanga with 22km of S-bends so perfectly proportioned it will bring a shiver to the spine of any keen biker. Anton Crone made the pilgrimage from Cape Town.
The post Riding the 22 appeared first on BRIGHT CONTINENT.
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The Honeyguide signaled it's presence by calling to us from an Acacia tree. How could we not follow. And off he flew from tree to tree, chatter, chatter, chatter - follow me, follow me! After a short trek he stopped in a bush and put on his greatest performance yet, and there we saw a [...]
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Remember moaning about having to go to school? Parents coaxing you with cliches, like, the best time of your life or, you're lucky, when I went to school I had to walk 5 miles, in the pouring rain! 120 boys pitched up at Mfuwe Secondary School without any coaxing, so keen on school that they [...]
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When travelling around Lake Victoria it makes sense to stay in a Victoria Hotel. Better still, a new one. No portrait of the old Queen here, but Kenya's old president, Mwai Kibaki, stares down from a cool forested lake as I tuck into a blistering hot curry. He even smiles as I select a coconut [...]
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Volcanism. At once beautiful and destructive. Today, there is a little activity along Africa's Albertine Rift, but scattered hot springs remind us what boils beneath. Most ancient lava flows are disguised by tropical forest or cultivated land, and cold volcanoes quell the sun as it sets over the DRC, but here, Nyiragongo still smoulders. It [...]
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This is it. My claim. My little flag planted in the crowded dirt of discovery. I give you what I believe must be the greatest motorcycle road on Earth. And I found it. 93 kilometers of perfectly, sensuously, endlessly curving bends that flow into one another like a monkey puzzle made of shrieking rubber chimpanzees. [...]
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