BUSHNOTE: WHY WE'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT LAND ROVER

Landies are a way of life for us and we use them by choice; the old Series 1, 2's and 3's, even the old forward controls and then of course the Defenders. We took two of them around the world by land along the Tropic of Capricorn and even circumnavigated the entire African continent following the coastline. We still love our Defenders, especially the big 130 long-wheel base 'mother ships' which carries all the supplies and malaria prevention, Mashozi's Rite to Sight and water purification humanitarian items.

Now here's a Defender with a difference, proudly sponsored by Land Rover South Africa - she's covered with thousands of signed messages of solidarity against rhino poaching - she does rhino protection and monitoring work and visits rural schools as part of a wonderfully successful project called Rhino Art - Let our children's voices be heard with messages from the children of Africa as a worldwide call to action against rhino poaching.

The ultimate 4x4 must truly be the Land Rover Discovery. They are the most comfortable and capable Landies we have ever used. There is no doubt that Disco's can do it! In the 3's we had a tough expedition across Africa to promote transfrontier conservation and the 4's were part of a 'Journey to Juba' - a Land Rover humanitarian expedition to South Sudan to celebrate the birth of the newest country on the planet. They are the only 4x4's to have completed the Great African Rift Valley from Djibouti on the dangerous Horn of Africa across salt crusted Lake Assal, lowest point in Africa, the Dannakil, hottest place on earth, across Ethiopia and south along Turkana, the world's largest desert lake, to all of the East African Rift Valley lakes and then the Western Rift from the Murchison Falls on the Nile following the Rift all the way to Lake Urema in Mozambique's Gorongosa. Our Land Rovers have taken us to every country on the African continent and even to her geographical centre, Africa's heart where it lies deep in the rainforests of the Congo River basin. To date we have completed over 350,000kms in Discoveries, a true testimonial to their capabilities. So many more exciting Land Rover adventures planned. Will keep you posted.