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Top SA travel blog posts of 2008 |
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One of the activities I most enjoy is reading people's accounts of their travels in southern Africa, and sharing their stories with our readers. This is SouthAfrica.TO's list of the best southern African travel blog postings of 2008 (47 in total).
A couple from Washington experience the "Cape docter", wave at Antartica and drive on a highway to Hermanus (see our page on accommodation in Hermanus if you're interested in visiting) that gives Australia’s Great Ocean Road and Big Sur "a serious run for its money". |
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Melinda, from Canada, and on a working holiday in Grahamstown, tells us of her trip down the Western Cape's Garden Route. |
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Etaetzsch is seated next to a champion Aussie womaniser, on a flight from London to South Africa. |
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Martin & Marianne visit Cape Town, Cape Aghulhas & Knysna. |
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Sarah does the Vineyards & Table Mountain in Cape Town |
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Liv and her American girlfriends Baz Bus their way along the garden route...a 60 year old guy who for some reason permanently lives in a backpackers gets friendly with them. |
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Paul, Mark & Thirnam think Jeffreys Bay is "so-so". |
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Ali Hassan feels like he always needs to look over his shoulder in South Africa. |
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A New Yorker pats the cubs at the lion and rhino park. |
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Ralph at Bundublog comprehensively covers Simonstown (link removed as it stopped working). |
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Wild-man-Wahlen goes eye to eye with great whites in Gansbaai. |
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Lisa the Londonite visits Stellenbosch and Cape Town for a wedding, and notices the ice-creamed coloured colonial houses and comparing the streets to San Francisco. |
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Lionblossom takes one of the most stunning photos on a train trip from Johannesburg to Cape Town. |
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Emy takes the Baz Bus to Umzumbe, and sees Nelson Mandela's home. |
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Emy takes the boogie bus to Kirstenbosch and watches the Rudimentals. |
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Ayelet's exploration of Namibia includes a stunning photo of the Fish River Canyon. |
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LJ flies from Kigali to Johannesburg to holiday with her Dad, including safari at the Pilanesberg. |
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Ellie flies from Washington (she stays in Delaware, where Joe Biden is senator) to Johannesburg and does a tour of Soweto. |
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Gara Lamarche survives South Africa without getting shot this time, getting to see Richards Bay and Hluhluwe Lodge. |
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John shares photos of the Palace of the Lost City, and sees "woofy tour guides" in Cape Town |
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Stella travels from Minneapolis to Cape Town, and struggles to get used to jailing herself into her house. |
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Jayne makes her way from Detroit to Gabarone (Botswana) . |
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After flying from Toronto to Cape Town, Bonita stays in Tableview, and is shocked by the wealth disparities. |
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Rita stays at the "Away with the Fairies" backpacker lodge in the Hogsback Mountains |
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Joanna takes in the views from above Chapmans Peak. |
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Niall takes the Baz Bus to the Bloukrans and bungi jumps. |
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Etaetzsch and her friend Chelsea make their way to Lesotho. |
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A Singapore model visits Cape Town for an Emirates photo-shoot, and gets hounded at her hotel by a desperate Joburg guy. |
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Travelling from Phnom Penh, two Canadians finally get to take the cable car up Table Mountain. |
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Katie travels from Birmingham to Cape Town to join a mission for African Leadership. |
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Valerie, a writer par excellence, travelled from Amsterdam to Kuruman, staying 1000 k's from anywhere in Postmasburg. |
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Jeff is made of the right stuff. He travelled from the USA to Lesotho to join a multi-national team of non-profit docters who look after HIV positive patients. |
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Well known author, Meg Cabot, arrives in Cape Town but her clothing doesn't. |
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Sharing a stunning array of photos along the way, Sebastian travels from Gabarone to Windhoek to Swakopmund. |
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Alaskan students photograph the Cape Town that tourists don't usually notice - like barbed wire and African boys - nice pics, but sorry to inform you guys, the Athlone cooling towers aint Nuclear (I hope!). |
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Francois Portmann plays the waiting-for-the-perfect-photo game at the cliffs of Thabazimbi, where he captures the essence of this Cape Griffon colony of vultures (link removed as page no longer exists) |
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Matt Schmucker from the US Baptist church expresses how pastors (link removed as page no longer exists) in southern Africa are distracted by parishioners physical needs (such as burying those who have died of AIDS). |
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3 girls hire a car and drive to Cintsa, braving it through some South African loadshedding, meet up with a kewl Portuguese guy with a broken leg and pet giraffes & a scary Cheetah. |
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Venturing out from his home base in Port Elizabeth to Cape Town, Firefly posts some stunning photos of the V&A Waterfront, Hout Bay, Groot Constantia and Rhodes Memorial. |
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Steph travels to Stellenbosch to complete her Masters and while here gets to see Desmond Tutu, Long Street, Robben Island and taste a traditional Zimbabwean meal. |
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Janhoo metaphorically fights his way through "miserable" Johannesburg on the way to the Victoria falls, before buzzing off to Japan. |
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Dave makes his way up Table Mountain, and avoids muggers by taking the cable car. |
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Tanushwen and friends rented nothing less than a Mercedes Benz & GPS from Avis and ventured around Cape Town; seeing Canal Walk, Table Mountain and the views. |
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Neville Hulet, a South African, flies 502km (from the Northern Cape to Lesotho) in his paraglider to break the world open distance paragliding record (link removed as page no longer exists). |
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Ellen flies to Cape Town and then onwards to Joburg and the Kruger National Park's Tramisana Lodge, where she is brave enough to track lions on a bush walk. |
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From O.R. Tambo to eating "voers, dung spitting and bathing in a bucket; Paul & Jessica celebrated genuine southern African life in a way few do, before relaxing at Malealea lodge in Lesotho. |
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