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EARTH, WOOD AND FIRE

much as it is a force of destruction, fire also has the power to breathe new life. Take the species of ‘pyrophytic’ plants found across South Africa, the seeds of which germinate having been cooked in a bushfire. The same process of destruction and renewal is something that strikes you upon arrival at &Beyond’s luxury safari lodge, Phinda Homestead, set deep within the bush of a private game reserve in the eastern South

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