Collection · 4 stories

Southern Africa Self-Drive

Kruger, Etosha and the Namib on your own wheels, with the checklists to do it safely.

Publisher Wildside Expeditions
Updated 11 Oct

Southern Africa Self-Drive

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1
A leopard walking through green grass in Kruger National Park
Guide
10 min
2.7 out of 5

Kruger on Your Own: A Self-Drive Guide

Kruger is one of the few great parks you can explore in a rental car. Here is how to plan routes, book rest camps and find the Big Five yourself.
Publisher Wildside Expeditions
2
Zebras and springbok drinking at the Okaukuejo waterhole in Etosha National Park
Guide
9 min
4.0 out of 5

Etosha's Waterholes: A Self-Drive Guide

In Etosha the game comes to the water, not the other way round. How to plan a self-drive around the park's best waterholes.
Publisher Wildside Expeditions
3
A dead camel thorn tree on the white clay pan of Deadvlei beneath a red dune
Destination
7 min
4.5 out of 5

Sossusvlei: Dunes at Sunrise

The dunes of Sossusvlei are among the tallest in the world, and at sunrise they glow. How to be at Deadvlei before the crowds.
Publisher Wildside Expeditions
4
The wreck of the trawler Zeila in the surf of the Skeleton Coast, with cormorants on its mast
Article
6 min
5.0 out of 5

Flying the Skeleton Coast

The Skeleton Coast is too remote to drive in a few days, so we fly it. A light aircraft journey along one of the wildest coastlines on earth.
Publisher Wildside Expeditions

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