The best golf courses in Kenya: an honest guide
High-altitude, beautifully kept, and the best-kept secret in African golf. The five rounds we build Kenyan journeys around.
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Dispatches from the field.
Course reports, destination deep-dives, conservation updates and the practical wisdom of sixty years — written from the ground by people who were standing on it. Golf, planning, encounters, food and the Gallery.
South Africa's deepest field: the courses worth your green fee
The best golf in Africa is here — we'll say it plainly. We just refuse to make it the whole trip.
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When to travel: timing the wild and the game together
A cool, dry high season when game gathers at water and the golf is comfortable; a lush green season of baby animals and better value. How we line the two halves up.
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A quiet return to Mukwa
Two nights in March on the lower Zambezi. The river was high, the elephants were back, and the new bar — somehow — is exactly the same.
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Always take the caddie — and other lessons learned the hard way
Clubs, caddies, handicaps, packing and what a trip really costs. The practical wisdom of sixty years, in one honest read.
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When to visit the Mara
The migration is one factor. The conservancies, the rains and the Mara River itself are the others. A practical month-by-month guide.
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Crossing borders: the four multi-country routes we love most
Two countries is a holiday; three is the trip of a lifetime. After sixty years and countless border posts, these are the crossings worth making.
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Walking with Renias Mhlongo
A morning on foot in the Sabi Sand with one of two master trackers in southern Africa. The lessons are not what you expect.
ReadGorilla trekking, honestly: permits, fitness and the hour itself
Around a thousand mountain gorillas remain on earth, and the only way to meet them is on foot. What the brochures don't tell you.
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Rhinos return to the Delta
The relocation programme has now established a viable rhino population in the Okavango. Here is where the work stands today.
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The Gallery's guide: a golf safari for the non-golfer
No one is ever left behind. What the non-playing half of the party actually does all day — and why they often come home happiest.
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Fancourt Links after the refurbishment
Six greens replaced, the eighth bunker rebuilt, the routing untouched. We played all 18 in early April. Here is the report.
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Playing at altitude: why the ball flies further in Nairobi
A mile above sea level, your seven-iron is suddenly a six. The physics, the adjustment, and the courses where it matters.
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Wolfgat — a year on
Kobus van der Merwe's twenty-seat restaurant on the West Coast has changed how we think about South African cuisine. A year-long observation.
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