Adventure Afrika

Find magic on the roads less travelled

Travel: A verb that means “to go to a place and especially one that is far away”. Far can mean long distances within the same country or to other countries.

Trip: A noun that means “the act of going to another place and returning for pleasure”.

Journey: A noun that means “the act of going from one place to another”.

Coddiwomple: My favourite, and English slang for “to travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination”.

It doesn’t really matter which of the above you are doing this holiday season or in the coming year, as long as you make memories and capture them! Adventure could be around every corner. For some of us, it must be filled with adrenaline. For others it simply has to be a new personal discovery, something unexpected, the weird and bizarre, or something from our history.

Instead of taking the highways to your destination, take the back roads, those less travelled. Wikipedia says: ‘’Metaphorically speaking, someone who takes ‘the road less travelled’ is acting independently, freeing themselves

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