Best southern Africa travel blog
in Jan 2009
In January 2009 we featured the following blogs on our website:
Marie from Bloemfontein (but living in Atlanta) advises to give Delta Airlines a skip. |
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Misha realises that Zimbabwe has changed since she last went there - no car rentals or even running water at the Harare Airport. |
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Lezlie's comprehensive photoblog of Cape Town, which she describes as a mixture of New York, Italy, California, France and Chicago. |
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Stan attempts to drive from Johannesburg to Cape Town on a single tank of fuel. |
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Tom & Miranda take some pretty pictures and have an argument in Cape Town. |
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Colleen goes to Lesotho to teach, and took an awesome photo on Thabo Bosiu. |
And our winner is...
Whilst I gave high marks to Misha for her brave trip to Zimbabwe, January's winner is 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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