BOOGIE WONDERLAND

First, a piece of advice: when hiking in a group, keep a safe distance – more than the pandemicʼs prescribed 1.5 metres – from anyone armed with Nordic hiking poles.

Once someone almost removes your eye with the pointy end of a walking stick, youʼll spend the rest of your five-day hike through the Fish River Canyon muttering profanities under your breath, dreaming up insults to inflict on the oblivious hiker in front of you. Why in the hell are they