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South Africa Slideshow
Top Hotels in South Africa
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Garden Court Sandton City
65 reviews -
Protea Hotel Waterfront Centurion
29 reviews
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Hotel Le Vendome Cape Town
44 reviews -
City Lodge Sandton Katherine Street Johannesburg
18 reviews
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Garden Court Sandton
64 reviews
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The Palazzo Montecasino Fourways
100 reviews
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City Lodge Durban
30 reviews
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City Lodge - Sandton/Morningside
12 reviews -
One&Only Cape Town
211 reviews -
Fancourt George
62 reviews
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City Lodge Port Elizabeth
19 reviews
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The Pearl of Oudtshoorn
23 reviews
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Town Lodge Sandton-Grayston Drive
9 reviews
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BEST WESTERN Cape Suites Hotel Cape Town
70 reviews
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Townhouse Hotel Cape Town
118 reviews
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Protea Hotel Fire & Ice! Cape Town
294 reviews
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Protea Hotel Knysna Quays
126 reviews
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Randburg Towers Johannesburg
6 reviews
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City Lodge Pinelands Cape Town
11 reviews
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The PortsWood Cape Town
143 reviews
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SunCoast Hotel and Towers Durban
35 reviews
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Wild Coast Sun Hotel Port Edward
11 reviews
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The Westford Hotel, Sandton
37 reviews
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African Pride Melrose Arch Johannesburg
125 reviews
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Mercure Johannesburg Randburg
25 reviews
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InterContinental Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport Kempton Park
200 reviews
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Southern Sun Newlands
20 reviews
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Mercure Suites Bedfordview
49 reviews
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Town Lodge George
5 reviews
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Protea Hotel Samrand Midrand
8 reviews
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Premier Hotel Pretoria
11 reviews
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Premier Hotel Regent East London
15 reviews
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Protea Hotel Edward Durban
45 reviews
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Protea Hotel Umhlanga Umhlanga Rocks
22 reviews
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Southern Sun Pretoria
13 reviews
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Protea Hotel King George
29 reviews
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Protea Hotel Tyger Valley Welgemoed
11 reviews
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Peermont Walmont at Mmabatho Palms Mafikeng
4 reviews
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Protea Hotel Bloemfontein
12 reviews
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Mercure Nelspruit
41 reviews
South Africa
Travel Blogs from South Africa
Big 5 Close Up
This is a top pick! This week has been hectic! I realised half way through why I've been so tired - I've been so busy that I haven't had time for myu midday siesta (something very much needed when you get up at 0530 and to be no earlier than 2100 which stuff planned most of ...
Arriving at Kruger Park
This is a top pick! After a solid breakfast at the hotel, we are picked up and whisked away to our safari! We sleep basically the entire ride out (almost 6 hours) but are kept awake for the last hour or so after picking up a swiss guy named Richard. He's absolutely ...
Sabati - Cintsa
This is a top pick! Well, looks like I finally made it. I'm at South Africa, 35 kilometers from Chintsa, the little beach village I told you about last time I was here. It's land inwards, the Komgha area, near the Sabati river. Very remote and secluded, a ...
Through Kruger National Park
This is a top pick! ... Lions, Leopards, Cheetahs and Elephants in Namibia! Within half an hour we were at the border. We checked ourselves out of South Africa and moved on to the Mozambique side where a chaotic scene lay before us, with hundreds of people everywhere, dozens ...
Lazy Days
This is a top pick! ... at are the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (which is the place I forgot the name of but was recommended to me), going up to West Africa for a trip (but visas may be the issue in that one), I’ve asked about the logistics of doing a FGASA course ...
Second Time Lucky
This is a top pick! And a short update - I'm back to wanting to leave again. I'm not going to Kruger (for perfectly legitimate reasons of which I don't have any issue with but I was looking forward to going), I've ended up going head to head with M who was probably the ...
reservations
This is a top pick! Of course you can't go to Africa without visiting the animals. And I did. I went to Hluhluwe game reserve near St Lucia, a coastal village about 300 km north of Durban. There I was persuaded to go whale watching too. The Addo Elephant National Park, a ...
taken for a ride
This is a top pick! ... , 70 odd kms of rough road, find a shuttle and trundle all the way back on a parallel road, a bit more to the south. Fancy visiting the next village? Same procedure. Costing you more than just time and money, it makes you seriously grumpy. Mthatha ...
Bungee and Braai
This is a top pick! Great breakfast at Emily Moon set us up for the day ahead. Also helped ease Steve's bad head! Bonus was the car had been cleaned! What service! We drove down the trusty N2 and then the Grootrivier Pass where the views are stunning but a stupid ...
Watch out for the Hippos!
This is a top pick! ... baby hippos on a little island in the middle of the river quite close to where we were standing. After speaking to some South Africans we discovered that the hippos were out and about on the beach. We wandered down the boardwalk and onto the ...
Buffalo Escape and Re-Capture for My Birthday
This is a top pick! ... When they were near the fence they were darted and they went down. We approached with caution (the most dangerous and agressive animal in Africa isn't to be taken lightly of course). The vet checked the first was ok, we left 2 people to keep it cool and ...
Bumpy rides and little shocks
This is a top pick! ... ;our (white) cook is reheating last night's spaghetti for lunch - everywhere I go I get fed spaghetti - I'm beginning to think it's Africa's national dish. So, today will be spent mostly on the road. Yesterday we made it as far as Citrusdal in the Ceder ...
a touch of bulungula
This is a top pick! The Bulungula story is short and sweet. I'll spare you the details of yet another extraordinary journey - I got there. Ah, what can I say? One of the loveliest places I've been to. Like a child's colouring book; round green hills, cozy mud huts, bright ...
Got some wheels
This is a top pick! Click here for Cape Town photos Up remarkable early all things considered. I walked up a steep 1 hour climb to Signal Hill, right behind the hostel. What can I say, more fantastic views of the mountains, the city and down the coastline onto an area ...
mixed feelings
This is a top pick! ... when we were stuck somewhere no-one had a problem with getting the pliers and cutting pieces of wire out of the nearest fence. Funny, no? Well, this is South Africa, a land of contradictions. Mixed feelings? Might just come with the ...
Lammergeyer stake out
This is a top pick! Click here for all Drakensberg photos We luckily managed to get in on a cancellation at a bird hide in the Giants Castle section of the park. Normally there is a 6 month waiting list for this. It was a very long 2 hour drive to get to the ...
The muppets from Overland Club
This is a top pick! Today is the start of 5 months on the road! Up for an early start again and another bush walk. Baboon, hippo, giraffe etc. A few new things we saw included Steenbok, a small antelope who was very curious and not as skittish as I would have expected. ...
South Coast Suprise
This is a top pick! ... he had to kick us out on Friday as he was booked out for the weekend. We may have stayed there until our flight out of South Africa on Tuesday otherwise. So we said goodbye to Nev and the boys, and the dogs and once again headed north to a place ...
King prawn hunt
This is a top pick! Click here for all St. Lucia photos Up nice and early to go and see an Indian Ocean sunrise. Very nice in the misty beach with the fishermen Silhouetted along the shoreline. Later we did a really good boat trip out on the St. Lucia ...
Once Bitten Twice Shy
This is a top pick! There's been dramas in the last few days here at Siyafunda, luckily everyone's safe and well again. We were out doing a walk looking for snares when we hear E calling for people over the radio (he was out with Bush Camp doing bush clearing (ie. getting ...
Lions... grrr!
This is a top pick! ... over for Madagascar... Good times! Speaking with Liz throughout the day was awesome as she has a much different perspective on South Africa then Noah, Christine, and Coach. She has been working for the Peace Corps here and has been exposed ...
Starting Safari!
This is a top pick! Early ish start in the morning following a not so good buffet breakfast at Tsitsikamma Lodge. I wonder if this had anything to do with the lack of chef and one of the owners standing in as the spa therapist had let onto me the day before. If so, I'm glad ...
Peed on by a serval cat at Emdoneni
This is a top pick! ... Town, but passable. We then continued up the N2 through lots of eucalyptus plantations to Isinkwe, a place rated the best backpackers in South Africa by Lonely Planet. We saw Red Duiker on the way up the driveway, surely a good sign. I have to say it ...
Word cup, Brewpubs and Mushini Falls
This is a top pick! Click here for all Zululand photos Got up early again for an Indian Ocean sunrise and came home to make a fantastic bacon, egg and avocado sandwich. We picked up Charlie and headed down to Eshowe in the heart of Zululand. I was ...
Walk walk walk
This is a top pick! Click here for Cape Town photos Wandered through the harbour, up Long St. and Kloot St. on the way to the cable car up Table Mountain. Managed to get a bit lost in a maze of houses and ended up bushwhacking the final path across some desolate land ...
out of this world
This is a top pick! ... I might get to that later. For now I want to tell you about Lesotho, a place I was hardly aware of. A small kingdom within South Africa, but for me it was out of this world. It took my breath away. Stark and barren, subtle shades of brown, ochre, ...
Johannesburg
This is a top pick! Flew into Johannesburg and were transferred to Drifters Inn.Sleepy ...
The Top of the Magnificent Amphitheratre
This is a top pick! ... of the escarpment reminded me a lot of the Simien Mountains in Ethiopia. Back down and back to the car and I began to realize why South Africa has some of the highest road death rates in the world. I would be traveling at 120km per hour on a single ...
Sterkhorn Peak - Mission Aborted!
This is a top pick! Click here for all Drakensberg photos Into the final calendar month of my travels and only 12 days to go! Cathkin was lit up like a red balloon in the morning as the first of the suns rays hit it. We decided to do a circular trip up to ...
Inkosana Lodge - A decent backpackers
This is a top pick! Click here for all Drakensberg photos Left the Amphitheatre Backpackers not too impressed with the place. We felt once we decided to do the Amphitheatre hike alone they weren't too helpful and their kitchen was filthy. We got on the road to ...