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Travel Blogs from Winterton, South Africa
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Mountain Hiking in The Drakensbergs
We've been staying in Jo'burg for a couple of days with David's cousin - Bernadine. We were lucky enough to have tour of the new football stadium being built for the 2010 world cup. The stadium is perched on a hill next to Soweto ...
Champagne Valley Area
... in a lot! We also bumped into Tanya Cooper from work in the middle of nowhere! Unfortunately we stopped at this place in Winterton for a bite to eat and 3 hours later I was ill, so that meant I lost a day & 1\2 in bed. ...
Something about Africa has given me GAS!
I dont know what it is but ever since i have set foot on this continent I have been unusually blessed with gas. If any of you know me, and all of you do, you know that i have a lot of gas but this has just been extraodinary. I know mom, why ...
only wash yourself
... forms the South African border with Lesotho. It's like a huge sprawling township which, until you look into the political history of South Africa, seems to have very little reason to exist. It's hard to say, but it seems there could be close ...
Happy Halloween!
Although I had to wake up before 8 today it wasn't too bad. We went on a 2 hour drive to Drakensberg where we got out and hiked well actually it was mostly level which was nice but a hike through this valley up a hill where we waited for a while until ...
Voices of Angels
I realized last night that today and tomorrow are the last days I will be sleeping in for at least 4 weeks... let me say that again, 4 weeks!! Yikes. Friday and Saturday we have class starting right after breaki and Sunday is church. Then Monday we start ...
he is the best at cut and paste
December 8 was the big day: the first-ever graduation ceremony of the Khotalang Educare Centre. I had visited the school a couple of times, and had been honoured by hearing the toddlers sing something flattering about me. I had even gotten my ...
It is a risk!
Since there is no "daylight-saving" adjustment in South Africa, it is light by 4:30. One morning I got up early and set off for a nearby kopje, promising to be back for breakfast. The ascent took slightly more than the hour I had ...
The Drakensberg
... I've even seen. The dry, hot air from the high veld spills over the escarpment of the Drakensberg, the highest mountains in South Africa, and collides with the cool, moist air coming up from the Indian Ocean coast. The result is a region where ...
Walking in the Drakensburg Mountains
After leaving Coffee Bay for the second time I headed to Durban for a day before going north to the Drakensbug Mountains for 4 days walking. The scenery was impressive as you'll see from my ...
Into the Mountains
... . Again, its perfect weather so hardly any clouds and a clear view of the desert below (Little or Great Karoo, I think) South Africa have just got into the budget airline market with a couple of companies that offer low cost flights. Although I ...
Ce fameux 'soccer fan' tour de 8 jours...
Me voici revenue du tour de 8 jours en partie dedie a l'Afrique du sud, ses paysages et sa nature mais plus particulierement oriente coupe du monde. Le 23 juin j'embarque donc pour 8 jours dans un camion (overland truck) de Gap Adventures. Ce tour de 8 ...
South Drakensberg.
... . Two of these people are so amazing. They became very dear friends, and we ended up meeting several times later on by chance in South Africa. They go by the names of Annalie and Stefan from Sweden. The next day we headed off on a day trip into ...
Do Yourself a Flavor...go to The Berg
18-21 March – One of the most revered holidays in South Africa is Human Rights Day. It is celebrated on March 21st every year in honor of those who lost their lives in one of the most brutal violations of human rights during Apartheid; the ...
Hiking the Drakensberg & gambling
... we decided to play some Blackjack. We won some, we lost some but we came out on top and had a great night in the warmest city in South Africa. As a sign said coming into town, "That’s not the humidity that you are feeling…It’s the ...
Even more hiking
... a green grassy field fifty miles across surrounded on three sides by the Drakensberg mountain range containing the highest peaks in South Africa and the Dragons. Our first adventure was to hitch hike to the local town Bergville with ...
Roof of Southern Africa
... that leads to the summit of Black mountain. At well over 3,000m this was about as high as you could take a car in southern Africa. How could we miss that opportunity? It wasn't as grueling as Sani Pass, but you did pass snow drifts and cross bridges over ...
The Search for Drakensberg
... deviating from the M3 (Freeway) after Pietermaritzburg. We learned the hard way, that travel on 'light coloured' roads on a map in Africa is best avoided for future reference. The road deteriorated from paved, to gravel, to dirt, to rock, to.. well, near ...
The Road
Estatuilla de una jirafa tallada en madera 30 rands, ver como te cita a lo José Tomás un negrito con dos estatuilla a modo de banderillas y se lanza sobre el coche como entrando a matar no tiene precio y además acojona... Y te aseguro que esté se ...
La prensa onubense da la cara por nosotros!
El Odiel Información ha realizado un reportaje de nuestro viaje por sudáfrica. Salimos en portada y en las páginas ...
Drakensberg en Helicóptero
Esta mañana hemos hecho un paseo en helicóptero por Drakensberg. El vuelo consistía en un paseito hasta el pico Little Berg, donde aterrizaba para que estuviéramos difrutando de las vistas unos 15 minutillos. Desde allí podíamos ver Cathedral Pick, ...
Jan 14, 2012
Drakensberg!!
So Drakensberg are a mountain range/region in South Africa about 1/2 way from Johannesberg to Durban. Instead of doing the 7 hour drive in one day, we decided to stay one night and do some sight-seeing I got very sunburnt in the car on the way :( We ...
Giants Castle
... ;s don’t have a great time as the rough roads are just that. Before arriving at Monk’s Cowl, we stopped for fuel at Winterton. We seem to keep filling up the tank over and over again on this holiday but we are covering a lot of ground – ...
The Amphitheatre - Royal Natal National Park
I write this sipping a cold beer and looking out to the Drakensbergs' peaks which are silhouetted against the fading twilight skyline..... This morning, the weather was reasonable (not perfect) and so we decided to head for the Amphitheatre in the Royal ...
Attended Justus and Tanya's wedding
We arrived at Cathedral Peak Hotel around 15:00 on 19 November, after about a four hour drive from Johannesburg. The wet weather made driving down a bit of a nerve-racking event, but once we arrived we immediately started relaxing. Cathedral Peak Hotel ...
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