SA4x4 magazine is written for anyone who loves to travel to wild places in their 4x4s. Covering beautiful routes in southern Africa and beyond, this title also deals with gear selection, vehicle reviews, and trail driving. This magazine contains everything you need to know about self-contained, vehicular travel in wilderness areas.
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SNAKES alive! • SA4x4 joins some of South Africa’s leading herpetologists on a mission in KZN’s Maputaland region to find rare species and teach the local rural residents how to react to snakes. With Opposite Lock on board, we’re all set to drive the region’s challenging-at-times gravel tracks…
GUGULESIZWE CAMP
AFRICAN SNAKEBITE INSTITUTE
HI-RANGE SAFARI CENTRE (GABORONE, BOTSWANA)
THE VEHICLES
OPPOSITE LOCK VEHICLES
Sticky Business • From duck to duct – the story of a legend
OVER LAND AFRICA • PART 2: ZAMBIA TO RWANDA Four guys live the overland dream when they rebuild a 1969 Land Rover Forward Control and head north through Africa, taking the slow road to Rwanda. Mitchell Sohn picks up the second part of their story, just as the group leap into Zambia, having survived a road not driven in many years…
SAHARA SOJOURN A JOURNEY TO CHAD’S TIBESTI MOUNTAINS • Much of Chad lies within the Sahara – a desert that covers one-third of Africa. A remote backwater, it rarely features on a traveller’s bucket list. But SA4x4 reader Grahame McLeod made it here with a bunch of like-minded Italian travellers on a tour with a trio of tough Land Cruisers. Once blacklisted due to war and conflict between rival tribal warlords, this part of the Sahara is now open to tourism. This month, the first part of a rough 1 500km journey to the Tibesti Mountains…
CHAD QUICK FACTS
THE FUTURE OF POWER • Lithium has changed the battery landscape for vehicle-based travellers. What do you need to know to invest in this new technology?
ALL-IN ISUZU • RICHARD KIGGEN’S RADICAL KB
GET IN TOUCH
BIG SIX BEAUT • Power without the penalties? Amarok Canyon Edition comes close
SPECS
STEALTH BOMBER • Jeep’s most brutal SUV looks kinda subtle until you put the hammer down…
SPECS
TENTCO Caprivi 3 tent
READERS’ RIDES
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