OK, lemme come right out and say it: I don’t know the ‘Berg. And THAT’S a terrible admission indeed – but I once went to Injasuthi and I spent a night in a backpacker’s at Sani Top: do they count? No, actually, they don’t, and reading David Bristow’s ‘Best Walks of the Drakensberg’ (Random House [...]

The first question I asked author Jacques Marais when I finally met him (we’d been in e-contact for a while, but never before in the same place at the same time) was, “Did you personally do all those things.” And immediately the words came out of my mouth, regretted asking it – they showed that [...]

Willie Olivier’s essential reference work deserves a place on every South African’s shelf. And it certainly ought to be in every tourism professional’s library. You see, the only way to really see a place is to walk – and South Africa must have some of the best walking in the world. (I’ll never forget the [...]