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The Garden Route
The Garden Route, a coastal drive that spans roughly from Mossel Bay (a few hours' drive east from Cape Town) to Port Elizabeth, about 250 km further east, is one of South Africa's most popular and...
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Addo Elephant National Park
In the 19th century, due to sport hunting, expansion of local farms, and a growing brickmaking industry, the population of elephants in and around Addo, South Africa dwindled from a peak in the many...
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Hogsback: Living Off The Grid in the Amathole Mountains
Horses and Party Animals (?) We came here on the suggestion of Ola, the daughter of the owner of Wild Spirit Backpackers' (the same lovely lady who gave me an awesome haircut during our stay there). As...
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The Wild Coast
Having had our temporary fill of the mountains in Hogsback, we headed yet again for the coast to a backpackers' called Wild Lubanzi. Yes, this is the third place we've stayed whose name starts with the...
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Pony Trekking in Lesotho
Lesotho is a bit of a geographic anomaly: a country smaller than the state of Maryland, high in the mountains and surrounded on all sides by South Africa. It was founded in the 19th century by the...
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The Amphitheater: “South Africa’s Best Day Hike”
Note: for no particularly good reason, we split the narration up between us. Claudia goes first: Claudia's Part After our excursion in Lesotho, we made our way to a lovely backpackers' called Karma in...
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The Kruger
Our final stop in South Africa was the famous Kruger National Park, world renowned for excellent game viewing. Some people had suggested we spent as long as a week in the park because it is so large...
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Yum: Amarula
The Spirit of Africa Within a few minutes of leaving the Kruger, we spotted a sign telling us that The Birthplace of Amarula was only a mere 13 km away. For those of you who are not familiar with...
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Whoops, it's been a little too long since we went back and found all the videos that didn't make their way into a blog post, so this round-up takes us all the way back to the end of our South America...
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Best Of Southern and Eastern Africa
Our three and a half months in Africa were extremely varied: we marveled at some beautiful landscapes, had some wonderful wildlife experiences, got to travel with friends, summited a mountain, endured...
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