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South Africa Slideshow
Top Hotels in South Africa
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Garden Court Eastgate Johannesburg
12 reviews -
Protea Hotel Mafikeng
5 reviews -
Crystal Towers Hotel Milnerton
69 reviews -
Southern Sun Katherine Street Sandton
35 reviews
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Town Lodge Bellville The Lodge
3 reviews
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Windsor Hotel Hermanus
68 reviews
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Protea Hotel Cape Castle Cape Town
42 reviews
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Peermont Metcourt at Emperors Palace Kempton Park
129 reviews
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Hollow On The Square Cape Town City Hotel
76 reviews
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Protea Hotel North Wharf Cape Town
72 reviews
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Manhattan Hotel Pretoria
12 reviews
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Cape Diamond Hotel Cape Town
104 reviews
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Town Lodge Roodepoort
4 reviews
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Riverside Lifestyle Resort Vanderbijlpark
17 reviews -
Pezula Resort Hotel Knysna
73 reviews
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Town Lodge Menlo Park Pretoria
5 reviews
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Peermont Walmont at Graceland Secunda
16 reviews
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Garden Court Morningside Johannesburg
14 reviews
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Cape Town Hollow
83 reviews
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The Grace In Rosebank
57 reviews -
Protea Hotel Capital Pretoria
5 reviews
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Casa do Sol Hazyview
47 reviews
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Villa Via Gordon's Bay Hotel
8 reviews -
Kedar Country Hotel, Conference Center & Spa Rustenburg
45 reviews
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Kelway Hotel Port Elizabeth
43 reviews
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Southern Sun Bloemfontein
12 reviews
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Protea Hotel The Winkler White River
27 reviews
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Protea Edward & Conference Centre Port Elizabeth
7 reviews
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Town Lodge Nelspruit
2 reviews
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City Lodge GrandWest Goodwood
6 reviews
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Zulu Nyala Heritage Safari Lodge Hluhluwe
54 reviews
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Town Lodge Polokwane
3 reviews
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Harbour Bridge Hotel & Suites Cape Town
55 reviews
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Le Franschhoek Hotel
116 reviews
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Beverly Hills Hotel Umhlanga Rocks
78 reviews
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Cape Milner Cape Town
34 reviews
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Premier Hotel King David East London
7 reviews
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Protea Hotel Bloemfontein Central
4 reviews
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Harbouredge Cape Town
19 reviews
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Keurbooms River Hotel Plettenberg Bay
1 review
South Africa
Travel Blogs from South Africa
Considerations
This is a top pick! Today has been much better in terms of goings on but at the same time I'm still half-half about staying or going. Today we woke up to meet the bakkies going into Lydenburg to do all the shopping, etc for everyone. I had my fingers crossed my laundry and ...
A Day on the Basotho Ponies
This is a top pick! ... consisted of small hills of brown grass with the occasional acacia tree - one that was reputed to be one of the largest in Africa. The horse we took were called Basotho ponies and are used all over the Lesotho highlands. A suggested to Erica we did a ...
two lazy bedfellows and a sleepless mama
This is a top pick! ... warm. And smelly. Hopefully that awful stench will be blown away by the desert winds at Hobas, the Fishriver Canyon, our next stop near the Namib border. I think I am going to have to toughen up if I am going to get any sleep at all here in Africa. ...
South African Leaner
This is a top pick! Not so much in the way of wildlife this entry but mauch has happened - I'm officially a learner driver in South Africa! On Monday I had a day of booking the exam, something you woud assume might take an hour at most... nope. It was 6.5 hours before I ...
Johannesburg
This is a top pick! ... time again that it was the evil lovechild of the Bronx and Hell. Turns out, it's alright, better actually. We stayed in In Africa Lodge which is a lovely little hostel that's more like a B&B, it's also in a gated community (good for keeping baddies ...
Racing to find wild dogs and cheetahs
This is a top pick! Click here for all Kruger photos A bit of a long day and I think we bit off a bit more than we could chew! We wanted to head up north for a while to see if we could spot cheetah or wild dogs on the flatter, more open plains. Unfortunately we ...
A bad day for the impala population
This is a top pick! Click here for all Kruger photos Today was a bad day for impalas - but more to come on that! Up in the dark but it was all worth it on what was my best day in Kruger and the start of 6 months on the road for me. Just out of the gates and ...
Photogenic leopard, kudu and theiving baboons
This is a top pick! ... . His head came right up to my stomach even as he crouched and as he showed his teeth I quickly dropped the rolls. All the South Africans in the area expressed real concern for my safety and I have to admit my heart was really pumping - more so than when ...
A session at the vineyards
This is a top pick! ... heading to Stellenbosch and the Tokara vineyard. Perched on a hill in a beautiful location it was owned by the 6th riches man in South Africa as a hobby! We had a late lunch as at a place owned by Robbie's cousin. The food was fantastic, we had ...
Back to South Africa
This is a top pick! Yesterday we cleaned up at Charles' house and said farewell to him while he was taking a morning bath. We drove south and crossed the Botswana/South African border easily. We were in the Gauteng province in little time from the border. Gauteng is a ...
Tugela Falls and Gorge and the Amphitheatre
This is a top pick! Click here for all Drakensberg photos Up and away to the Royal Natal National Park bright and early for our start up the Tugela Gorge Trail. The view on the drive in were stupendous. There were lots of birds around for what was meant to be a 15 ...
Table Mountain
This is a top pick! ... We were served an inch thick piece of beef with sauce and avocado on a thick bread roll, no salad was included. We think South Africans just love their meat and don't really accompany it with much salad. We went back to the backpackers and it was another ...
cintsa
This is a top pick! ... but also meaning I will not have to wonder about the next bed or meal. I am told it will be hot, hmm, well, I'm in Africa, ain't I? After that I intend to make my way to Durban, Amanzimtoti, to visit the children I was working with last year. Then slowly ...
The Townships of Cape Town
This is a top pick! ... into the restaurant! I crash on Christine's couch and catch up on a bunch of writing that I've been neglecting while enjoying myself to the utmost in South Africa! This 2 week segment will be awfully hard to beat as I travel around the ...
Capetown - Our gateway to Africa.
This is a top pick! We spent the first week of our trip in the beautiful city of Capetown, South Africa. Capetown is such a cosmopolitan city that it was easy for us to forget we are in Africa. There is so much to see and do, and we were lucky to have seen most of the ...
Chillin in Cape Town
This is a top pick! Finally I'm able to take advantage of a lazy morning to catch up on my sleep, writing and planning my next trip segments. After a while I feel like I'm wasting time looking ahead and walk around downtown Cape Town. I browse Green Market ...
Lightning Never Strikes Twice
This is a top pick! Leaving India we were off for our longest journey yet as our ticket routed us Mumbai-Bangkok-Hong Kong-Jo'burg-Cape Town, South Africa. Initially Jan and I considered this route to be nothing more than an out of the way layover. If going east to go west ...
Week Two - Cape Town
This is a top pick! ... in Salty Sea Dog, Simon's Town. Watched baboons chasing tourists with food and drinking Appletizer. Climbed to lighthouse at south western most point of Africa for stunning views. Saw first wild Ostrich's. Back to CT, booked Baz Bus to Durban, via ...
Study, Study, Study
This is a top pick! ... myself for a good few hours before I went back to just changing the names of what I previously understood to the South Africa terms. (Primary, Sub-Climax and CLimax for those interested...) I have given allowances for 'special occassions' and yesterday ...
Beautiful Cape Town
This is a top pick! ... beautiful setting at the foot of the stunning Table Mountain. It has a completely different feel than other cities and towns in South Africa. You could almost be anywhere in the world. There is less security and barbed wire around all the properties which ...
pizza hut
This is a top pick! ... way amusing and quaint, but the road was tarred right up to the beach and it lacked the wild and pristine feel you get further south. Maybe I didn't stay long enough to do it justice. The Amapondo lodge was nice though, a few km out of town and close to ...
A few days in the Cape
This is a top pick! It feels a little surreal, but we're finally here in Cape Town - the first stop on our 100 (ish) day round the World adventure. After months of waiting and working, we've started travelling. We couldn't have hoped for better weather. To make you ...
Durban - Burn, rain, rain, rain.
This is a top pick! Mention Durban to any South African and be prepared to hear the warnings, rightly so. Still a vibrant and exciting city but it doesn't feel as safe as it did last time I was here. We hear the Golden Mile is newly named 'Muggers Mile', great! Our hostel, ...
Goodbye to One and Hello to Another
This is a top pick! Well I had to leave Siyafunda. It was a great last couple of days there but I really didn't want to leave. I’ve promised myself not to let it influence my stay at Selati too much because it was just the best but if you keep comparing things, well, ...
More Photos
This is a top pick! 
away with the fairies
This is a top pick! Hogsback. Without doubt a beautiful part of the country and many have spurred me on to visit it. And here I am, and to my surprise the moment I arrived I knew it was not the place for me. I can't fault its loveliness, the mountains and hills, ...
Hogsback - Rambling Country
This is a top pick! ... from abusive backgrounds, I have called my favourite, 'Dogbert'. Hogsback and especially AWTF are well worth straying away from the Bazbus route for. South Africa's towns and villages are what the country is all about (but I am looking forward to ...
Onward to Cape Town
This is a top pick! ... 's Bay for dinner at a nice place called Summerville. We ate outside on a strip that can only be described as looking like South Beach or Malibu, and the sunset is gorgeous to say the least. The drive there and back takes you over a small ...
Robben Island
This is a top pick! ... to score a ticket to Robben Island, which houses the prison built in the 1960's which housed political prisoners opposed to South Africa's system of apartheid. On the island the day I arrived, the weather was beautiful and sunny, giving a false ...
Now We Are REALLY In Africa
This is a top pick! ... appreciate the connection during hikes through beautiful forests with huge trees and pretty waterfalls - some of the only virgin forest left in South Africa. One day we went for a three-hour hike with all five of Away with the Fairies's dogs. They led ...