Route

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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

South Africa

Route

We flew into Johannesburg from Windhoek. To get around South Africa's huge spaces we rented a car. After a day or two in Johannesburg (and a look at the infamous downtown - yes, it is as bad as they say), we headed to Kruger National Park in the north-eastern corner for a few days of thingumajig-spotting. We toured through the massive Kruger NP and then headed south, via the spectacular Blyde River country and down into Swaziland, a very different place from South Africa. Then we carried on through the Zulu heartland of KwaZulu-Natal, stopping at Dundee, from where we visited the battlefields of the Anglo-Zulu wars. Next we continued further east and visited two more national parks, Hluhluwe and the Greater St Lucia Wetlands. We didn't make a stop at Durban but continued directly to the fantastic Drakensberg mountains bordering Lesotho. From here it was a long trek to remote Kimberley to see the Big Hole, and then another long drive across the open empty Karoo, with a lovely overnight stop at Beaufort West, still in Karoo country. All this took us a little over two weeks which meant that, as planned, we had two weeks left for the comparatively compact Garden Route and Western Cape. This was a very different side of South Africa, with tidy and smart seaside villages like Plettenberg Bay and Buffalo Bay, and finally the winelands of the Western Cape. First we made a stop at Roberson and then made Paarl our base for visits around the region. Finally we made our way to Cape Town where we spent the last week,

(Overland, Flight, Boat)

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