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Travel ideas | 11 February 2026

4 undervisited alternatives to iconic travel hotspots

Wine | 11 February 2026

Short on time? These wine farms are perfect half-day stops

Things to do | 11 February 2026

Cape Town for people who live here (but feel like they haven’t really seen it)

Travel news | 11 February 2026

No Airbnb tax: what Cape Town’s new letting by-law actually means

Dorps | 11 February 2026

4 small towns that actually work for a two-night weekend

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Your weekend guide to SA’s best events and experiences

Travel news | 11 February 2026

SANParks to implement indemnity forms at Table Mountain Park gates

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Posts Tagged: Sudan

Spices and Spandex – the travel cookbook

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An epicurean journey down the length of the world, from London to Cape Town, with... read more

Adventures in Ethiopia – Axum and the Ark of the Covenant

19 December 2013

Exploring the ancient and mysterious town of Axum, Ethiopia, which claims to be the... read more

In photos: Cairo to Nairobi by bicycle

20 March 2013

Photos from the last two months of our cycling trip from Cairo to Nairobi with... read more

The great escape – crossing the border from Sudan to Ethiopia

13 April 2012

And so with the border painfully close, I sat in the middle of the Sudanese... read more

Book review – A.A.Gill is Further Away Helping with Enquiries

17 October 2011

A.A.Gill's latest anthology, A.A. Gill is Further Away Helping with Enquiries, is first-person observational journalism... read more

Chewing chat in Ethiopia

12 August 2011

Our driver sat beside me munching on what seemed to be a bunch of slender... read more

How to: get your car across borders

24 May 2011

A practical how to guide on crossing African borders with a vehicle from a South... read more

Tight spaces and open skies: the ferry from Egypt to Sudan

23 May 2011

Travelling across Lake Nasser is an experience in itself. I was quite unprepared for the... read more

Northern white rhino update – Kenya

17 May 2010

The Vagabond Adventures team decide to separate two female white rhinos in Kenya in order... read more

Uganda: The Reunion

3 May 2010

OverlandintheSun crosses into Uganda with fun being had swirling down the White Nile and camping... read more

Sudan: Free roaming?

3 February 2010

After many warnings about the roads in Sudan being the worst in Africa, we were... read more

Overlandinthesun (overland in the sun) overland trip from London to Cape Town in Landcruiser partially powered by solar energy

1 February 2010

A great poet once said, "Tuti too beauty." Okay, so it was a farmer in... read more

Sudan: Locust indigestion

14 January 2010

While visiting the Nuba Mountains of central Sudan, we dove headfirst into the market of... read more

Overlandinthesun overland trip from London to Cape Town

11 January 2010

I call it 'What's Around the Next Corner' Syndrome. Its causes are curiosity, intrigue, naivety... read more

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