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Too Cold at Addo, Pleasantly Warm in Durban
A Travel Blog entry by mebiner from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
... that day. This bus would transport us through the end of the trip. We drove through the city centre of Durban en route to our hotel, and the sunshine and mild weather raised everyone’s mood. Temperatures were in the low 70s and all of ...
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Pleasant Day in Durban
A Travel Blog entry by mebiner from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
... inside. I gave the first 2 quizzes for Geography 5, and most of the group did fine. I lectured on Southern African countries (Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Botswana) and then gave my final lecture for Geography 1. It felt ...
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Durban
A Travel Blog entry by nick.maynard from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
... had agreed to drop the camera at a specific shop in the Gateway Shopping Centre, the largest mall of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. Unfortunately, if you've been to Bluewater, Lakeside or even the Trafford Centre, you've seen similar and we didn't ...
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Road trip 2
A Travel Blog entry by jamesedmondson from Durban, South Africa
... gave us some of her freshly cooked bread and knocked it back with her local brew - delicious! After 2 nights in the southern berg we headed up to the northern berg, staying in the wonderfully positioned Ampitheatre backpackers. It was where ...
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Be Easy Zambezi
A Travel Blog entry by jzafricajourney from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
... backpackers were extremely nice with swimming pools and all the amenities a backpacker would need, and i realized im getting into southern africa now and things are really starting to improve, accommodation wise. As i was walking around the hostel, ...
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Dip into SA
A Travel Blog entry by marrakeshtocape from Durban, South Africa
... just when I'd got used to the sweaty heat! Before crossing the border though, I stopped at a nice little backpackers in the Southern Drakensberg at the beginning of the road that wound its way up to Lesotho. I spent a fun two nights here - going ...
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A Zulu nation and a Bunny chow
A Travel Blog entry by afrikanskies from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
... eyes", from the 1964 classic, but hugely inaccurate movie). Historically, the Zulu’s became one of the most powerful clans in Southern Africa in the early 1800’s under the leadership of King Shaka, who was born on the outskirts of eShowe. Once ...
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The return to South Africa
A Travel Blog entry by liammichelle from Pietermaritzberg, South Africa
Upon our return to South Africa we found ourselves on our own again, this time in Durban. Despite the fact that we were staying in the 'Southern Sun' Hotel, it was raining heavily (You wonder why we wear our raincoats in every photo). The following ...
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Snow in Africa and other adventures
A Travel Blog entry by jill_and_andy from Pretoria, South Africa
... on email and lounged outside by John´s pool. We also spent an afternoon in the second-largest shopping mall in the southern hemisphere. South Africans take particular pride in their shopping malls. At night, we ate out at nice restaurants enjoying a few ...
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Living on a Prayer & Coconuts, Coffee, & Conmen
A Travel Blog entry by r.m.heslop from Can Tho, Vietnam
... headed to the bus station to catch a luxury minibus (no stop-starting, hooray) to Rach Gia, on the southern Vietnamese coastline. Arriving at Kim Co Hotel around dinner time, we grabbed a quiet bite at the restaurant nearby and then back to the hotel ...
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Cape Town
A Travel Blog entry by nando64 from Cape Town, South Africa
... the Atlantic where it meets False Bay and not the Indian Ocean which is about 90 miles further east at Cape Angulhas the true southern most point of the continent. From there we drove up the east coast of the peninsula on the Lost Bay side, ...
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Birdy Meets GI Joe
A Travel Blog entry by marielbird from Cape Town, South Africa
... the coast, through Simon’s Town and some of the most beautiful beach towns I have ever seen, stopping at Cape Point – the Southern-most tip of Africa – and back up through Chapman's Peak. We created our own version of House Hunters ...
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Days 107 to 111 – Phuket (Back to the Beach)
A Travel Blog entry by craigadventure from Kata Beach, Phuket, Thailand
... and around the sunken ship. Here we saw many schools of fish moving in sync as they zipped about the wreck, tiny durban dancing shrimp, 2 juvenile white eyed moray eels and a giant puffer fish!! Although we were in a small group of 5, ...
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Christmas in South Africa
A Travel Blog entry by cessna152 from Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
... food, drink, clothes -Lagoon Beach Hotel, Cape Town – Stunning location -Great weather Weaknesses: -Taxi prices -Durban (except the Hilton Hotel) -Some people seem a bit unfriendly -The underlying threat (mainly from the media) about being a victim ...
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South Africa Encompassed
A Travel Blog entry by pinkkaz from Harare, Zimbabwe
... With new passengers for the second half of the trip we left Cape Town for Stellenbosch and wine tasting at 10:00 a.m. followed by Southern Right whale spotting at Hermans. After that we visited an ostrich farm at Cango and saw a baby hatch from an ...
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South Africa Trip Summary & Photos
A Travel Blog entry by pday from Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
... who is originally from Zimbabwe and has traveled around the world crewing on yachts and she had also traveled quite a bit in southern Africa. She got us all excited about traveling the world while we stuffed ourselves on some amazing food. ...
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In Mayotte, The Comoros Islands.
A Travel Blog entry by gypsying from Mayotte, Comoros, Madagascar
... ; Cape Town to Singapore and then Singapore to Hong Kong. Namibia We had been to Namibia in 1998 as part of our time driving around southern Africa so we didn't feel the need to repeat what we had done then. This time we kept it simple: We spent one ...
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Mussel Bay Shark Cage Diving... And a major update
A Travel Blog entry by michelle05 from Mosselbaai, South Africa
... two trips for the price of one. Yay!! The sharks were HUGE that we saw from the surface today, pretty cool! And we saw SOuthern Right Whales and Fur Seals today too. SUper cute!! I still feel like I'm on the boat right now all dizzy sealeggy lol... So ...
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Delay?...What delay?
A Travel Blog entry by wherearetheynow from Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
... in Perth know we would be arriving late and buying some airtime for the internet we jumped on the free shuttle to the Southern Sun Hotel a few hundred metres from the airport. Once we got there and handed over our letter to checkin we were handed a ...
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Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel Durban
63 Snell Parade, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Its prime location on Durban's North Beach affords the Southern Sun Elangeni hotel with magnificent views of the stretch of coast commonly known as the Golden Mile. The premier hotel boasts excellent facilities including three restaurants, two bars, a ...
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The Roundhouse Durban
61 Ingang Street, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
... locals say "It's the smell of money!"De Kelders has recently become known worldwide for its excellent land based whale watching. The town boasts a large population of Southern Right and Humpback whales along the coastline between De Kelders and Hermanus.
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