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Equipment
How to secure electrical power on a trip
Rooftop tents vs ground tents
Solar panels are essential for bush campers
Roof-racks
Pros and cons of equipment
Packing systems
Tents: Canvas or nylon?
Shelter while overlanding
Preparing for a trip
Border crossings
What you need to get through a border post
Border crossings in Southern and East Africa
Visa-free overlanding with African Union passport
Health
Deadly snakes and scorpions of southern Africa
What Ebola entails for travellers
What you must have in your first aid box
Beware of Bilharzia when you travel in Africa
All you need to know about Malaria
Get your vaccinations
Tick-bite fever and sleeping sickness
Be careful of the big star!
Preparing your vehicle
Choosing the right vehicle
Motorhomes
Preparing your sedan or SUV
Preparing your bike for overland travel
Vehicle prep for seriously remote areas
Basic vehicle prep for remote areas
Packing your vehicle
How to dustproof your canopy
The ins and outs of a Carnet de Passage
Camping checklist
Trip planning checklist
To tow or not to tow
Providing sufficient water while you overland
Travel tips
How to start travelling Africa
Veterinary fences in Namibia and Botswana
Cell phone comms while you travel SA
The cheapest way to communicate while travelling Africa
The bush offers a lot during the wet season
Is now a good time to travel Zimbabwe?
The law of the waterhole
Keep protected areas special
Camping
How to book campsites in Botswana National Parks
Etiquette for wild camping in Africa
Bathroom trivialities when you camp
Cooking in the bush
How to travel with eggs
Be informed if you venture off the beaten track
The 10 Commandments of camping
Driving
Advice on travelling Africa’s difficult roads
How to handle water crossings
The danger of long grass
Don’t let those punctures leave you stranded
Overlanding
Money matters while you overland
Ten commandments of overlanding
You can overland solo off the beaten track
Ten myths about overlanding Africa
Bush mechanic notes for solo overlanders
8 essential add-ons for overlanding
Do you really need T4A?
How to survive group overlanding
Safety
Can you travel Africa with small children?
General safety tips
How to act around wild animals
How to be safe around elephants
How a little knowledge can help you survive
Destinations
Angola
An acquired taste
Through a photographer’s eyes
Botswana
Camping at Baines’ Baobabs
Central Kalahari Game Reserve
How to self-drive Botswana in 10 days
Out of the ordinary Botswana activities
The Kalahari is not for sissies!
Malawi
15 Things you want to know about Malawi
The magic of Cape Maclear
Mozambique
From the coast to the forest
Northern Mozambique: beautiful but inhospitable
On the road from Maputo to Nampula
Namibia
About travelling Koakoland
A must-stop near the Fish River Canyon
Jewel of a camp near Sossusvlei
10 Adventurous things to do in Swakopmund
The best of the Kavango
The Caprivi (Zambezi region) is still wild
Top Trek: Fish River Canyon
10 Things to do in Southern Namibia
Are they really fairy circles?
South Africa
10 Interesting facts about the Otter Hiking Trail
All you need to know about the Otter Trail
Anysberg: Back to nature close to Cape Town
Stories of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Cederberg: the best kept secret of SA
Spice up your trip to the Cape Winelands
Kruger NP south to north and beyond
Celebrating a baby rhino
Detour via Nieu-Bethesda
Steinkopf, jewel of the Northern Cape
Swaziland
Zambia
10 Reasons to visit Zambia
Kafue NP offers a wild Africa experience
Discover the best of Madagascar
Ten reasons to visit Ethiopia
Top African destinations
Navigation
Smartphone vs GPS for navigation
The right GPS for navigating with T4A maps
What is overland navigation?
Why the T4A Overland Navigator app works offline
How to plan a route
Don’t forget the good old paper map
More uses for your GPS
10 Questions most frequently posed to T4A
The GPSMap 276 legend is back
T4A now on Ford’s nav system
Overland trip reports
How to submit your trip data to T4A
Discover Baviaanskloof and 20 passes on a motorbike
Exciting self-drive trip through Namibia
Cape to the Carmine C
About Cape to the Carmine C
Choice and preparation of the vehicle
Canopy and add-ons
Looking back on our trip
Vehicle and after-market fitment problems on our overland trip
South Africa
Setting off for the Transkei
From the Transkei to KwaZulu-Natal
Exploring the beauty of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park
Mozambique
Southern Mozambique – first impressions
A surprise stop-over en-route to Zavora
Mozambique – from the coast to the forest
Northern Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Exploring the east of Zimbabwe
Enjoying the splendour of Gonarezhou
Minor gems of Zimbabwe
Exploring the southern shores of Lake Kariba
The magic of Mana Pools
From the Zambezi to the north of Mozambique
Tanzania
Tanzania: Karibu!
Some of the best Tanzania has to offer
Western Tanzania
Kenya
Out of Africa
Exploring the less travelled roads of Western Kenya
Lake Turkana
West of Lake Turkana
Ethiopia
Beautiful, amazing Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s spectacular caves and an ancient city
Discovering the Ethiopian Highlands
The Danakil Depression Part One
Danakil Depression Part Two
The historical Tigray region
In search of the origin of coffee
Heading for south west Ethiopia
Uganda
Discovering fertile Uganda
Southern Uganda
Rwanda
Small but beautiful Rwanda
Zambia
Traversing Zambia
Namibia
Namibia and back home
An epic adventure in the Okavango
T4A product news
Tracks4Africa Guide App
Our new guide app offers a rich content
The mapping beauty of our new guide app
T4A GPS Maps 14.10 grew 4%
Get Africa at your fingertips on your GPS
T4A GPS Maps – Traveller’s Africa 14.05 released
Namibia and Botswana Self-drive Guide Books
Guide app testing in the Southern Cape
The perfect Christmas gift
Tracks4Africa Guide App now on Android
How to plan a route on the T4A Navigator App
More than 1m kilometres of roads covered!
Celebrating 10 years of mapping!
About us
How is that for a challenge!
Are you a Tracks4Africa traveller?
Cycling from Cape Town to Livingstone for trees
Finding the roots of T4A
How we make maps
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