To follow up on the video we posted yesterday, which you can see here in a longer version, an off-duty guide in South Africa’s Kruger National Park who was spurred on by liquid courage and the Darwinian hecklings of his mates was quickly and decisively fired by his employer, Singita Game Reserve. Two other off-duty [...]
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They don’t call them “safaris” in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, they call them “game drives,” but for a pair of visitors this week it was anything but a game when an elephant attacked and demolished their car. The man, who was Polish, suffered broken ribs, and the woman, who was Chinese, received a broken [...]
Attentive Daily Bike readers will note that we have featured images from the amazing South Africa series, Bicycle Portraits, on more than one occasion here. Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler set out to document bike commuting and explore why so few South Africans actually rode their bikes to work, but what they ended up producing [...]
Oh, cyclocross. You think you have a lock on weird? Think again. The singlespeed worlds are every bit as nonconformist as all those other nonconformist cultural gatherings, only this time they were in South Africa and director James Walsh was there to bring his twisted eye to the event. This short film, called Kunye, is [...]
Before you consider the saga of Kazimierz Nowak, think for just a minute what it would be like to ride the length of Africa today — and not just once, just twice. War zones, unfriendly locals, disease, traversed by a lone white man on a bike. That’s just what Nowak did, but from 1931 to [...]
From the amazing collection of South African cylists, Bicycle Portraits: John Jacobs, Kingswood Golf Estate, George, South Africa My mom and dad had 21 children. But some of them are dead. Two of them, maybe because of hunger, took a paraffin bottle and drank it. The doctor couldn’t help because the paraffin was too strong [...]
As we were coming in for a landing, barely 100 feet above the dirt runway, our pilot suddenly jerked the nose of the propeller plane skyward — an elephant was calmly sauntering across the dusty strip. It was my first indication that, while humans may oversee Kruger National Park, they are not necessarily in control. [...]
Ryan Sandes is cut from the same cloth as pioneering alpinist Lionel Terray, who titled his memoir “Conquistadors of the Useless.” In talking about his hunger to run Namibia’s Fish River Canyon hiking trail in record time, he acknowledges that there’s no real reason for doing so other than because he wants to. He admits [...]
February 10 I know the shape of this coast, the rocky shore, dark waves rolling in thirty-four thousand feet below. The jet engines hum. A businessman raps on the lavatory door. A line of tile-roof houses appears, then, farther inland, factories and highways and the broad, unlit fields of Viré, Flares, and Nonancourt. The captain [...]
I’m in the middle of a northward journey. “Oh yes, we have Ciprofloxacin,” says the woman behind the drugstore counter. “You have typhoid?” “Not yet. There’s always hope.” I’m a little cranky after a bone-cracking day in the back seat of a bus crossing southern Tanzania, followed by 11 hours shuffling between bed and toilet [...]
Surfing river waves is typically a novelty — not quite as much of a stretch as snowboarding sand dunes, but still, not exactly J-Bay, either. This section of the Zambezi River in Zambia, however, actually gets a little sporty and throws out a lip that gives Andrew Matthews a few fun coverups. Give the dude [...]
This week’s free wallpaper of a herd of elephants in Masai Mara, Kenya, is provided here in a full range of desktop sizes. This shot is by Kevin Arnold, and you can purchase art-quality prints of it (with or without frames) through the Adventure Journal print store. 1280 x 800 1440 x 900 1680 x [...]
This is Jafta Pietersen of Prince Albert, South Africa, photographed for the ongoing series on South African cyclists called Bicycle Portraits. “I bought this bicycle form a white lady, Mrs. Sarie Orton, after she left school and she started to work. So I’ve had it now for over 40 years and she rode it for [...]
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