Destination: South Africa
There are [263] stories and [4388] photos from South Africa
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Thu, 18 Sep 2008 | By sylvia_aiko | Views [373] | Comments [16]
We’re in Johannesburg! The flight from London was long but we slept for a good amount of it, and I have to say that South African Airways is fantastic. It was an overnight flight, and we got to watch an amazing sunrise when we were a few hours ... Read more >
Tags: africa, johannesburg
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 | By sylvia_aiko | Views [503] | Comments [10] | Video
We left the hostel early, got on the Baz Bus with 2 older German guys and a young French couple and our driver Jesse, who is Indian and hilarious, and drove to Nelspruit, where we picked up a British couple. Then we drove to the South African/Swaziland ... Read more >
Tags: swaziland
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 | By bulwer | Views [372] | Comments [9] | Video
Firstly the bad new... No pictures yet. But we have taken many and they are coming soon! Except the first day we got taken by surprise as Natasha and her friend picked us up and drove off at break neck speed so that the police (Natasha's father) wouldn't ... Read more >
Tags: cape town
nudity
wine
Sat, 20 Sep 2008 | By sylvia_aiko | Views [546] | Comments [8]
On a lighter note than yesterday, Michelle and I couldn’t find Mandla so we couldn’t go back to Soweto, so instead we decided to go to the Lion Park outside Johannesburg. Lots of lions, hyenas, cheetahs, giraffes, antelopes, wildebeest, zebras, ... Read more >
Tags: lion park, carnivore
Wed, 4 Mar 2009 | By sylvia_aiko | Views [235] | Comments [8]
I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I know it’s been over a month since I posted on my blog, but now I’m back and here to fill you in on what I’ve been up to. A thousand apologies… Well, obviously we left Kenya because our 3-month ... Read more >
Sun, 20 Sep 2009 | By treasure_hunter | Views [96] | Comments [7]
Woke up today and the sun was shining, looked up at table mountain and there was just a hint of cloud on it, what the locals would call the table cloth. Today i am getting picked up to go on a wine tasting tour of Stellenboch, the mayjor wine producing ... Read more >
Wed, 26 Sep 2007 | By fozzy | Views [456] | Comments [6]
Hi All Sorry have not being in contact, but this is the first time I have had access to the internet. What an experience since my last entry ! We left Lake Malawi after been fleeced by the locals, but rested after after a few days in a bed and catching ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 | By alex_ward | Views [242] | Comments [6]
Well we got to the airport and said our goodbyes - we were on our own for the first time! So after the - 'don't leave each others side' speach, we were immediately failing. Stood in the line at customs i was dragged out of the queue with all my bags, ... Read more >
Tue, 2 Jun 2009 | By sylvia_aiko | Views [151] | Comments [6]
We've been having an amazing time in Kathmandu, visited our friend's family's villages, visited some amazing temples and monasteries, and just over all have really been enjoying ourselves and meeting really great people. We've stayed a bit longer than ... Read more >
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 | By treasure_hunter | Views [98] | Comments [6]
Has the heading suggests the last 2 days i caught up with South Africa's dark and opressive past. Firstly i went to Robbin Island which was settled by the dutch in 1652 and was eventually converted into a prison a year later in 1653. The name Robbin is ... Read more >
Sat, 4 Aug 2007 | By angeline | Views [521] | Comments [5]
I've just returned from the amazing Kruger NP and what an aesome adventure it was! I saw so much wildlife, I saw the entire big 5 (lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo and elephant) in the first 3 hours of the first day! Plus I saw giraffes, zebras, warthog, ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Tue, 19 Sep 2006 | By eugeneulman | Views [409] | Comments [5]
I am currently working on a documentary project that involves travelling to many countries around Africa. World Nomads Insurance is one of the sponsors of this project. I find it interesting that of all the questions I get about my travels in Africa, ... Read more >
Tags: Work
Sun, 26 Oct 2008 | By sylvia_aiko | Views [271] | Comments [5] | Video
Learn all about our going-ons in Namibia by watching this educational video set to the sweet tunes of Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo!
Tags: namibia
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 | By bkhk4fun | Views [262] | Comments [5]
Patti: Well, it has been quite the ordeal over the past number of days. Our 4 hour plane delay turned into a 20 hour delay so we spent a night in the Dubai airport with several thousand other people. The worst part about the situation was that no information ... Read more >
Tags: Airports
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 | By theunit | Views [219] | Comments [5]
Hello Loved and Missed Ones, This is going to be a very short blog (due to the fact we are heading off to the airport soon). I did feel that some of you may want atleast a quick update and know where we are. I will blog about our positive and enjoyable ... Read more >
Thu, 8 May 2008 | By alex_ward | Views [165] | Comments [5]
After spending 2 weeks in Plumstead, seeing the sigts, drinking the wine, making ourselves known – we moved up to Rob and Waynes farm for the weekend, North of Cape Town. The location was increadable and we sat out watching ther stars for hours ... Read more >
Sat, 17 Jan 2009 | By horwood | Views [141] | Comments [5]
Hi Everyone, After an emotional farewell we have landed in South Africa and are staying at Mufasa Lodge. It's a lovely place run by a hudband and wife team, John & Toini and we've settled in nicely...well at least we like to think so, Licci is ... Read more >
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 | By agnew1 | Views [109] | Comments [5]
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I, some one who is terrified of the open expanse of the ocean and its seamlessly bottomless depth and of all its big, sleek, silent, deadly animals, would ever find myself bobbing around in the middle ... Read more >
Tags: whales, sharks, sardine run, south africa, diving, snorkeling, dolphines
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 | By susanandlars | Views [496] | Comments [4]
We had an overnight flight from Kuala Lumpur to Johannesberg, and got in about 6 in the morning. We had a little bit of adventure getting from Bali to KL as we had overstayed our visas and would owe some extra fees. This process was pretty shifty, ... Read more >
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 | By sylvia_aiko | Views [318] | Comments [4]
Woohoo, overland camping trip! It seems that I can’t get away from civilization for too
long, I’m sitting in a strange little Namibian town in the middle of the Namib desert
called Swakupmund, at a fancy internet café with wireless internet in ... Read more >
Tags: swakupmund, overlanding
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 | By sylvia_aiko | Views [286] | Comments [4]
Since Swakupmund, we’ve camped out in the bush and in a game
park in Nambibia. We spent one night in
Spitzkopf at a bushcamp (meaning no facilities, just us and nature) and 2
nights at the Etosha National Park.
Spitzkopf was absolutely ... Read more >
Tags: spitzkopf, etosha
Sat, 2 Feb 2008 | By msjensmith12 | Views [285] | Comments [4]
This week has been filled with fear, laughter, tears, sweat, and blood. The trivial highlights of the week consisted of the mothers here at the Village teaching me how to cook and I only needed two band aids after peeling potatoes and grating carrots ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
Tue, 4 Mar 2008 | By msjensmith12 | Views [274] | Comments [4]
From the US, it was easy to simply look at Africa as a whole - blame white people for the distress all the countries are in and then want to come over to show that not all white people are the same. Yes, this will be a bit of a racial blog with harsh ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 | By ourwanderlust | Views [255] | Comments [4] | Video
Celebrating each other's BDay in an exotic country during our dream-come-true world trek is great but it is also the time when we missed our family/ close friends the most :-( Fernando turned 33 while we traveled around the African jungles and we had ... Read more >
Wed, 1 Oct 2008 | By sylvia_aiko | Views [249] | Comments [4]
Well, we've just about come to the end of our backpacking experience on the Baz Bus, so while I wait for it to pick us up one last time and take us to Capetown, I thought I'd take advantage of the free wireless. Wilderness is a great beachy resort ... Read more >
Tags: wilderness, hippie cave
