Destination: South Africa

Adding to my bucket list

Wed, 4 Jun 2014 | By katja | Views [678]

The trees stretch up around me to paw at the sky. We're driving along the road, music blasting - not my style - while I try to sleep, my eye twitching very unwillingly to the beat. I had to wake up at 6 o'clock in the pre-dawn dark to be here, and ... Read more >

Tags: bucket list, knysna, shooting, south africa

Leaving on a jet

Sun, 1 Jun 2014 | By nicklang | Views [197]

Leaving on a jet.   Cant wait to get on the plane although my heart pumping and mother all choked up.going to love this and look forward to posting more.

Tags: boarding

Photos: South Africa 2010

Tue, 27 May 2014 | By throughthelookingglass | Photo Gallery

Photos: The Everyday Tourist

Thu, 22 May 2014 | By pips | Photo Gallery

Open for Visits

Wed, 21 May 2014 | By natania | Views [574]

One of my favorite travelling experiences has to be all of the random, amazing people I meet. I just love learning about all of the different cultures, habits, manerisms etc.  Seeign as I can't really travel for now - (Making money and setting ... Read more >

Tags: lodging in western cape, room in western cape, stay in cape town, stay in paternoster, tourists, travelers, vredenburg

Photos: Trips

Sun, 18 May 2014 | By mytriptosa | Photo Gallery

Through the Window

Fri, 16 May 2014 | By lavnandlall | Views [502]

Through The Window - Mpumalanga, South Africa I’m writing this while sitting on the back of a closed white bakkie [1] . As I peer outside, I notice the cliff-hugging route that curves for kilometres ahead. As above so below are vast fields of ... Read more >

Tags: gods window, gold rush, kruger national park, mpumalanga, pilgrims rest, rising sun, san tribe, south africa

Very nice shoes...

Thu, 15 May 2014 | By willemvanderidder | Views [476] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry

Very nice shoes… I met her on a rainy Sunday night in the city center of Cape Town. She begged for some money. Was it because her brown eyes looked a little sad at me, or because of her thick belly by which I noticed she was pregnant? Or was it maybe ... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip

Photos: Ocean Beings

Thu, 15 May 2014 | By natania | Photo Gallery

Tags: langebaan, natania, paternoster, sea, south africa, weskus, worldnomads

Brain, let me stay in the present please

Thu, 15 May 2014 | By mrabanerjee | Views [376] | Scholarship Entry

How did I end up here? That’s what I’m pondering while taking a short promenade around the Sandton area of the city of Johannesburg. It’s a placid late winter night in the middle of May with a smell of unknown leaves pervading the air. It’s cold enough ... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip

Adventure in the Everyday

Thu, 15 May 2014 | By nomadnadine | Views [298] | Scholarship Entry

How did I end up here? Well, at some point in the last two years, I made the decision to find the adventure in the everyday. It’s not one easy, simple quick-fix choice that turns water into wine. It’s a tedious journey that makes the hardiest of travelers ... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip

Maiden's dance

Thu, 15 May 2014 | By garlandwaide | Views [295] | Scholarship Entry

The first time I attended a traditional Zulu wedding was very recently. The destination was Eshowe in rural KwaZulu-Natal. Cows dotted almost every hill in sight. The bride was waiting to get dressed in a traditional wedding skirt made from strips of ... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip

A Smiley in South Africa

Thu, 15 May 2014 | By alex_newby | Views [257] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry

Dripping murky juices onto the newspaper that held it, our smiley crackled like the fire it had just been pulled from. A sheep’s head that has been split down the center and barbequed, a “smiley” is a local favorite in the Guguletu Township outside of ... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip

Lions in the Afternoon

Thu, 15 May 2014 | By lonelynomad | Views [197] | Scholarship Entry

I couldn't ever forget the last time I saw Lions. Real lions, Kings of the African plain, not the lonely beasts consigned to a square of grass in some zoo, diminished from their glorious indifference as rulers of the jungle to attractions for families.... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip

I Can Hear It Coming

Thu, 15 May 2014 | By roryontherun | Views [197] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry

I hear Soweto before I see it. The song of the township comes tumbling into the bulging minibus as I throw open the window, trying to escape the clammy crush of my fellow passengers. With eyes closed, one hand trailing the dusty afternoon air, I soak ... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip