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The phone on my bedside table rings. I know who it will be. Clive, our safari guide, an affable fellow with a vibrant laugh, waking me from slumber pre-dawn to get ready for the day’s safari experience. We are guests at the andBeyond Homestead at Phinda Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, on the east coast of South Africa.

In 1991, andBeyond purchased a 13,000ha swathe of ecologically degraded pineapple plantations, cattle ranches and sisal and game farms with the intention of creating a wildlife

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