Johannesburg

"Buffelsdrift Trail Park has incredible mountain bike routes. You can do some really hard trails or some beautiful walking trails; you can trail run. It’s a family outing — take the dogs, the kids. You can do a mountain-biking trail that’s 85 kilometres, or you can do something like ten kilometres with the kids. It’s fun for the whole family."

Buffelsdrift Trail Park

"A 50 metre-wide meteorite hit Earth and created the Tswaing Meteorite Crater, one kilometre wide and 100 metres deep. Tswaing is Setswana for ‘place of salt,’ because the meteor impact formed a salt lake. It's spectacular to see. Even better, hire a microlight, a hot-air balloon, a light aircraft or even a helicopter to see it from the air."

Tswaing Meteorite Crater

"Alfie’s makes good pizza. But it's not only about the pizza, it's about the environment, especially on the weekends. It has a real hustle and bustle: people rock up in their cool cars and on their bikes while you sip on gin and tonics."

Alfie’s Italian Cafe

"Mongena Private Game Lodge has a little tented camp on the dam, which is really nice. There's also lodge accommodation in well-appointed chalets. The restaurant, the Kingfisher, is one of my favourites. It's open to the public and it’s not far off the N1 highway, so you can drop in and get a good breakfast while enjoying the view of the dam."

Mongena Private Game Lodge

Though he grew up in suburban South Africa, these days wildlife conservationist Kevin Richardson spends most of his time in the country’s vast and mighty bush. Known as the Lion Whisperer, for him, nuzzling big cats is all in a day’s work. The Kevin Richardson Wildlife Sanctuary within Dinokeng Game Reserve in Gauteng is a safe place where large carnivores rescued from captive-breeding and cub-petting facilities can live out their days.

Kevin Richardson — “The Lion Whisperer” — is a world-renowned conservationist who specializes in the protection of big cats.

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