Dispatches from the field.

What is a hosted golf safari? The complete, honest answer

Hosted, tailor-made or self-drive? An honest comparison

How to choose a golf safari host: the questions to ask before you book

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gorilla 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.