Africa’s wild places are often viewed as just holiday destinations, but they are also living conservation landscapes shaped by wildlife, local communities, their cuisine, and the people working to protect their authenticity through conservation tourism.

The Karoo waits quietly beyond the mountains, where the roads stretch towards distant koppies and the evening light changes the colour of the land. For years, many travellers treated this vast semi-desert as somewhere to drive through on the way to another destination. That view is changing. Travellers are beginning to value what the Karoo has always offered: space, silence, history, authentic experiences, small-town character, and meeting the people of the Karoo.

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