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    Oka-Shaize shebeen Read More

    adventure, What’s in a name?

    July, 2 2025 in adventure, What’s in a name?
    The Oka-Shaize shebeen

    I’m always interested in the colourful shebeen names of the North, and whenever I visit...

    By Manni Goldbeck
    Gondwana Canyon Park's conservation Read More

    adventure

    July, 1 2025 in adventure
    The Gondwana Canyon Park

    We can be dreamers in our lives, and perhaps visionaries. And wouldn’t it be quite a...

    By Ron Swilling
    Diamond T shop Read More

    adventure

    June, 27 2025 in adventure
    Finding desert daimonds in Askham

    In the Northern Cape where the red Kalahari sands sprawl across the land, camelthorn...

    By Ron Swilling
    When the Firewood Season Returns Read More

    adventure

    June, 26 2025 in adventure
    When the Firewood Season Returns

    It’s that time of year when the cold winter chill creeps in and people can be seen...

    By Manni Goldbeck
    Meerkat Sanctuary Read More

    adventure

    June, 20 2025 in adventure
    Speaking Meekatese

    It was about ten years ago on my way to the Kgalagadi in the Northern Cape that...

    By Ron Swilling
    Lime Kiln Read More

    adventure, History

    June, 18 2025 in adventure, History
    The biography of a lime kiln

    In my twenty years of chimney (or lime-kiln) hunting, I’ve seen some strange and...

    By Manni Goldbeck
    Wild horses in the Namib Desert Read More

    adventure, books

    June, 15 2025 in adventure, books
    Wild Horses in the Namib Desert - 4

    Their origins steeped in mystery, the wild horses in the Namib Desert have captured...

    By Manni Goldbeck & Telané Greyling, as told to Ron Swilling
    Ruins of century-old lime kilns Read More

    adventure, History

    June, 11 2025 in adventure, History
    Chimney Hunting - In the Namibian countryside

    By Manni Goldbeck
    Ongwediva Read More

    adventure, Echoes of the Aawambo

    June, 9 2025 in adventure, Echoes of the Aawambo
    Ongwediva - Waterhole of the Leopard

    The name Ongwediva translates into English as “the waterhole of the leopard” – a...

    By Willie Olivier
    The Boer migration to Patagonia Read More

    adventure, History, people

    June, 6 2025 in adventure, History, people
    The great trek from South Africa to South America

    By Ron Swilling
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