South Africa

Preparations
South America
North America
Asia
Africa
Europe
Returning home

Namibia
South Africa

Pictures
Route
1 Windhoek to Joburg
2 Views and gold
3 Kruger bound
4 Elephant and rhino
5 To Olifants
6 To Blyde River
7 Swaziland beckons
8 Ezulwini Valley
9 To Dundee
10 Zulu battlefields
11 To Hluhluwe
12 Hluhluwe & coast
13 to Winterton
14 Wits End
15 The Sphinx
16 Bus day north
17 Kimberley mine
18 Through the Karoo
19 Plettenberg Bay
20 Pootling about
21 Buffalo Bay
22 South of Africa
23 On to wine lands
24 On to Paarl
25 Wine and port
26 Cheetah and eagles
27 Paarl and Stellenbosch
28 Paarl to Cape Town
29 Museum and art
30 Robben Island
31 Cape of Good Hope
32 Around Cape Town
33 Table Mountain
34 Going home

Our route is shown in red (click map for a more detailed version)

•	Flight from Windhoek to Johannesburg
•	Johannesburg
•	Kruger National Park
•	Skukuza (inside Kruger)
•	Olifants (inside Kruger)
•	Blyde River
•	Ezulwini Valley (Swaziland)
•	Dundee
•	Hluhluwe National Park
•	Greater St Lucia Wetlands (daytrip)
•	Winterton (Drakensberg)
•	Kimberley
•	Beaufort West
•	Plettenberg Bay
•	Buffalo Bay
•	Robertson
•	Paarl
•	Cape Town
•	And flight back to London

South Africa

South Africa seemed to have it all, in large helpings, from the urban sprawl and crime statistics of Johannesburg, to the abundant wildlife of Kruger and other national parks, to the stunning Drakensberg mountain ranges, the refreshing south coast with its perfect climate and seas, and - saving the best for last - the excellent wine country, as much for the very gluggable South African wines as for the very different scenery and agreeable climate. To finish it all off, Cape Town, despite all the hype it's still a very, very good place to be! For us this was also a very symbolical way of completing our world tour (except for the bit around Eastern Europe...). We had reached the "end of the continent" and across the Atlantic we thought we could just make out Buenos Aires, at the same longitude, where our trip had started a year earlier.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention: the droewors, the Zulu music, the ...

Did I mention Swaziland? We managed to "swing by" into this small mountain kingdom, still ruled by an absolute monarch, with its strong traditions. Only a short visit of a few days, but it packed a punch! We never did manage to get into Lesotho though, running rapidly out of time, shame.

Diary

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May	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	1	2	3	4	Jun

Books, Films, Music, Links, etc.

For more references, check our links section.

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The Ibis Tapestry, by Mike Nicol. Found it scanning the shelves in Waterstones. The reviews on the back-cover have this to say:

"Nicol lays out a chilling picture of corruption at the heart of President Botha's South Africa ... with unsettling power and strong sense of contemporary evil." (Publishers Weekly)

"With magnetic skill, Nicol presents a haunting, exotic panorama of African countries with histories and cultures still largely unknown in America." (Arizona Daily Star)

The author's style is a bit irritating but as a chance find it was a good introduction to South Africa.

South African wine site: www.wine.co.za

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