Destination: South Africa

Wild Coast - Port St Johns

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 | By rich | Views [357]

This is boring....you don't have to read it... It was suggested to us that on our drive down to Cape Town, one place we should stop in is Coffee Bay. As we like to wait until the last minute to do everything, we phone the one hostel in Coffee Bay on ... Read more >

Durban

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 | By rich | Views [666]

Despite any mis-pre-conceptions, Durban is one of our more enjoyable stops and gives us the opportunity to hang out with the Goldswain family. Warren (Goldswain) used to work with Alicia at Foxtons estate agents in west London before moving back to ... Read more >

Gallery: Durban

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 | By rich | Photo Gallery

Nov 15th Volvo Ocean Race Cape Town 2008

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 | By sandy_power | Views [1619]

SAT 15th NOV Volvo Ocean Race 2008- 2009 – Leg 2 – Cape Town All excitement was up as hundreds of supporters made their way through the Table Bay waters to show support for the start of the second leg of the around the world Volvo Ocean Yacht ... Read more >

Gallery: Cape Town

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 | By bagen | Photo Gallery

Capping it all off in Cape-Town

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 | By bagen | Views [773] | Comments [1]

Having experienced the long haul 36hrs of flying from Perth to Buenos Aires (the long way round) on the way out... we got smart and maybe just a little lushy and decided to break it up with a wee stop over in Cape-Town on our homeward journey. Part ... Read more >

Zululand - St Lucia & Shaka's Rock

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 | By rich | Views [903]

Swaziland sits very conveniently in our chosen path between Mozambique and South Africa, so we decide it has to be worth at least a one night stop-over. We endure terrible storms, inadequate road signs and a depressing hostel. We change our minds! No worries ... Read more >

Gallery: Zululand

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 | By rich | Photo Gallery

Pretoria Comfort

Sat, 6 Dec 2008 | By rich | Views [548]

Because we only decided to come to South Africa 24 hours ago, we haven't really got much of a clue in terms of where we're going first. The woman who worked at the travel center in our Zambia hostel told us that Pretoria is the better option to Johannesburg ... Read more >

Gallery: Upington and on

Sat, 6 Dec 2008 | By harryjonas | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Pretoria

Thu, 4 Dec 2008 | By rich | Photo Gallery

South Africa here we come...

Wed, 3 Dec 2008 | By rich | Views [532]

After much deliberation, we finally decided to fly direct from Livingstone to Johannesburg. There were a number of other options (bus routes through various combinations of Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana) but all had their problems and would take many ... Read more >

Gallery: Ma in Upington

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 | By harryjonas | Photo Gallery

Leg3 of our South African Journey

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 | By murray_wilson | Views [1125] | Comments [3]

We left Stellenbosch as weather down south started to get worse.  As we headed North West the sun came out, although the South Easterly wind was unrelenting.  The vineyards area and Montagu had 3 days of terrible weather with massive floods resulting ... Read more >

Gallery: Storms River to Stellenbosh

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 | By murray_wilson | Photo Gallery