Best southern Africa travel blog
in Feb 2009
In February 2009 we featured the following travel blog postings:
Tom has a lion of a day in Cape Town - he visits the lion park outside Paarl where they take care of rescued lions, and follows up with a paraglide off Lion's Head. |
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Dudado flies from Buenos Aires to Cape Town where he takes some high quality photos and draws comparisons with Argentina. |
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Jamie travels from Hartford to a Joburg City Lodge to kick off her trip to the Kruger & Cape Town. |
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Marie flies from DC to Johannesburg where she stays in Boksburg, meets Hector Pieterson's sister, and attracts several wedding proposals! |
Our favourite travel blog posting in Feb 2009 is Marie's - not many tourists get wedding proposals (including one to become a 3rd wife!) whilst here, and even fewer take photos of butchered cows' heads which help remind me why I'm vegeterian! Add that to the fact that she met up and conversed with Hector Pietersen's sister Antoinette, and I get the feeling she soaked up plenty SA culture during her stay her.
Best Jan 2009 posting
Whilst I gave high marks to Misha for her brave trip to Zimbabwe, January's winner was Colleen's blog of her expedition to go teaching in Lesotho, which started with her having to jump airport lines to make her connecting flight from Johannesburg to Bloemfontein. Below is a photo of her on top of Thaba Bosiu (translates to "Mountain of the Night" in Lesotho), a sandstone plateau where all but one of the Basotho kings are buried, and which King Moshoeshoe used to defend his nation from Zulu invaders (colonialists?) in the 1820s. Colleen has been teaching grade 1 - education is the cornerstone of the civilised world and from us at SouthAfrica.TO, we'd like to congratulate you on making a difference - you are a great example for others to follow.
Best travel blog posting in 2008
With dreadlocks forming from a buildup of Namibian sand in his hair, braving a cruel 12 hour trip in a combi from hell filled with sweaty people, and having chats with a philosophising englishman amongst Swakopmund's lego-like structure; Sebastian Modak's account of his Namibian travels was our travel blog of the year for 2008.
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