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It’s happened to all of us. You’re standing around the fire or you’re at a dinner party, and someone starts holding forth about a subject they clearly know nothing about. Even though you know that he or she is totally wrong, that person won’t be conv

Why EG? I grew up in the suburbs of Rondebosch East, so perhaps it was a product of my upbringing. I would daydream about travelling to remote and unchartered places and I spent a lot of time poring over maps. Starting out as a young photographer,

I loved the article “Dust horizon” in go! #159. Sixty years ago, my friend Dennis Buys and I also toured the Karoo on a motorbike. It was 1956. I was a part-time accounting student at Howard College in Durban (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal) a

Saturn is visible for most of the year. During the first half of 2019, you could see the ringed planet in the early morning sky. Since passing around the sun, it’s now visible in the evenings. The orbits of the moon and Saturn have crossed often in

Bosparadys Farm Stall, near Syferbult, is a great place to pull over if you’re heading west out of Gauteng on the R509. It’s tiny and easy to miss (see directions below) – get the kids to look out for the statue of a Friesian cow on the roof. The f

Freelance author and editor Grahame McLeod first travelled to Botswana in 1973 as an exploration geologist. He later worked there as a teacher and a textbook writer, gaining citizenship in 2009. Makgadikgadi Pans – A traveller’s guide to the salt fla

Jon Minster has been involved with go! since the magazine was launched in 2006. He was a journalist and photographer for five years, travelling far and wide, and editor for another five years. These days he works behind the scenes as a freelance edit

A sweet braai sauce or marinade makes for a lovely, sticky, moreish meat dish, but don’t pair that kind of sauce with a sweet wine, otherwise your palate will be overwhelmed. Instead, choose a dry wine with ripe and juicy fruit flavours – particularl

DURATION: 8 days DATES: 21 – 28 March 2020 INTRODUCTION: St Helena Island is an isolated volcanic outpost in the South Atlantic Ocean. It forms part of the British Overseas Territory and is one of the most remote settled islands in the world. St

This tour is aimed at keen wildlife and landscape photographers, but birdwatchers and fans of polar history will also love it. The expedition is scheduled for 8 October to 27 October 2020. Your flight lands in Punta Arenas, Chile on 8 October. The ne

In certain parts of the Free State, especially around Welkom, the landscape can get a bit dull: nothing but mielie fields and mine heaps. But take the R710 about 5km west of town and you’ll notice two surprising steel structures: an aeroplane and a m

RF = RIGHT FRONT RH = RIGHT HIND The small-spotted genet and the large-spotted genet have identical tracks. They’re found all over South Africa. The tracks left by a small baboon and a vervet monkey look very similar. The impala’s hoof print l

Approaching the Ethiopian border post, we were excited to see green vegetation after four months of deserts in Jordan, Egypt and Sudan. We arrived at Gallabat, a sleepy border village with plenty of trucks, which we bypassed to get to the immigration

My phone rang the other day. I’m lying – it wasn’t the other day; it was back in May, the month when winter starts to put out its feelers and summer has its boarding pass in hand. It was a Saturday morning and I was at home, sipping my fourth cup of