Johannesburg Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

Hi guys, Sorry it's been so long...I've been so busy and these things seem to take an age to write and to upload the photos; it's so hard to find the time. Luckily for you and unluckily for me my dive on the Aliwal Shoal (in the top 5 warm water dive sites in the world) was cancelled today as the sea's too rough so I thought I'd use the time to ...

Alyssa: Well, it's Thursday night already. Basically, today was just our day to catch up on some rest after a long day of travelling. After I finally woke up, we got on our hiking shoes and walked all around the hotel. Keep in mind, this is not like a normal hotel where each floor is just one straight hallway after another...the Westcliff was ac...

Johannesburg farewell South Africa, Johannesburg 7 Jan 2008 After a brilliant holiday in the Cape, we returned to Johannesburg for the last couple of days to pack and spend some time with the Hilligans and Zeids (Ryan's sister Natalie (expecting Ruby in March 2008), her husband Ibrahim and of course 5 year old Gabriel). Thanks so much for making...

(Amy) An extended conversation with Yvette during the drive back from the coast has really got me thinking about the importance of family, which seems especially relevant during the holidays. Yvette mentioned that, with few exceptions, their entire social circle is comprised of people they met while at university. As a general rule, teenagers gr...

JD and CC went off before breakfast to try and track down the Blue Swallows that breed near God's Window. A couple of Black-backed Jackals kept a watchful eye on us from a distance when we stopped to scan the grasslands and there was an abundance of Stonechats about, but no swallows. We gave the mist-belt forest at God's Window another try and h...

So I just got back from Namibia. I had a great time there and wish I had planned my trip better so that I could have had more time to go farther north and into Etosha National Park. Namibia doesn't have much of a public transportation system, so you either have to rent a car or go on a guided tour. I didn't have the money to rent a car, so I rel...

Well people, after about ten minutes of normal thinking i come to the conclusion i would be deemed mad, if i turned this oppurtunity down and went back to england. So after a long old flight i am now in south africa. So at the minute i am in johannesburg and it is absolutly amazing. It is really rough in parts and makes the ferrier estate look l...

I'll be out for most of April in various provinces to write stories from the field. Planning, discussion on and the decision on my field missions to write stories from the field have taken a long while. Only on the afternoon we left for our holiday trip the Kruger area Martin Rall, the CEO of The Mvula Trust agreed the proposal Kerry Harris (Chi...