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Jacques Marais is the South African trail guru. If he’s not scouting a new MTB trial, he’s running a new route in the Drakensberg. His new book, Top MTB Trails 2, has just hit the shelves of all good book shops and you can purchase a copy for R250. Follow him on Twitter @JacqMaraisPhoto.
Our regular trail-guru starts 2018 off by visiting the spectacular iSimangaliso Wetland Park. WORDS AND IMAGES: JACQUES MARAIS LOCAL BUZZ If the Cape False Bay is not quite wild enough for you, bud, take up your bike and head as far north-east across the Rainbow Nation as you possibly can. […]
Regular trail guru – JACQUES MARAIS ventured outside the borders of SA to bring us this Namibian feature LOCAL BUZZ OK, so if there’s only ONE spot I could return to after the epic ride from the Cunene River – snuggling up against the south of Angola – all the […]
Regular contributor and trail-guru JACQUES MARAIS spent some time in the picturesque Baviaanskloof. WORDS AND IMAGES: JACQUES MARAIS LOCAL BUZZ The annual ECOBOUND #TransBaviaans 24hr MTB Marathon … let me tell you, bru, that’s a pretty hard-core event. Yup, you’ve got only 24hrs, and in that time you need to […]
LOCAL BUZZ Right, good people, this is as far north-east as you can book accommodation here in our Rainbow Nation! Imagine Ponta do Ouro in Mozambique just across the border, mix in a sub-tropical vibe and some seriously kiff fat-biking, and you’ll sommer want to saddle up for a beach […]
LOCAL BUZZ “Fourie’s a jolly good fellow”! Ja bud, you know how it is when you’re all by your lonesome in your cabbie, on a road trip, and you sing out loud? Well, that was my chorus right there as I tripped via Fouriesburg towards the Lesotho border – and […]
Great mountain biking trails. Big game viewing. Nine months of summer every year … you can do worse than saddling up your MTB in iSimangaliso, northern KZN’s ‘Place of Miracles and Wonders’. – Photographs & Copy: Jacques Marais Local Buzz: iSimangaliso rates as the largest natural World Heritage […]
When you get tired of playing smooth operator along the immaculately groomed Karkloof trails, may we suggest you add some grit and hard rock to your next MTB ride by heading onto the Howick Trails network? – Photographs & Copy: Jacques Marais Local Buzz: Right, you’ve got the Midlands. On […]
Williston was originally known as Amandelboom, thanks to a big-ass almond tree planted there in 1768 by Johan Abraham Nel to honour his son’s birth … how’s that for some useless info? What you do need to know is that this eccentric little dorp in the Bo-Karoo is well worth […]
Trains, Plains & Velo-mobiles… that’s De Doorns for you. Actually, the Karoo plains are a way off, so you can expect anything but flat riding here along the rail tracks traversing the Hex River ranges. – Photographs & Copy: Jacques Marais Local Buzz: Autumn Splendour. That’s the name coined by […]
The Hogsback Trails have gone next-level thanks to some sweet trail-building by Neels du Toit. Yup, go get your crank on along the Puffadder, Stihl and Veldfokus Runs. Photographs and words by Jacques Marais. Local Buzz: You can’t help sensing the enchantment of Hogsback when you drive into this hideaway […]
