There are trips where accommodation is simply somewhere to sleep, and there are trips where the setting is part of the reason for going. The Cape Winelands is particularly well suited to the second kind. Vineyards stretch towards mountain ranges, farm roads lead away...
Heritage is often associated with historic buildings, archaeological sites and museum collections. These places are important, but they represent only part of the story. Culture also survives through people. It is present in languages, recipes, music, ceremonies, oral...
History can feel distant to a child when it consists mainly of dates, names and paragraphs in a textbook. Standing inside an old prison cell, seeing a fossil, walking through a historic neighbourhood or hearing the story of a community in the place where it lived...
You do not always need a boat trip to see whales in South Africa. Along parts of the Western and Southern Cape coastline, migrating whales can come close enough to shore to be watched from cliffs, beaches, dunes and coastal walking paths. In the right season, a walk...
South Africa looks deceptively manageable on a map. Cape Town, the Garden Route, the Karoo, Durban, Johannesburg and the Lowveld all belong to the same country, but trying to combine too many of them into a seven-day driving holiday quickly turns the trip into a...
