If you haven’t yet visited Cape Nature’s Anysberg Nature Reserve between Laingsburg, Ladismith and Montagu in the Karoo, do it now. It’s a special place for endangered plants and riverine rabbits, but you can also kick back and relax in the silence, gaze at the stars or choose from a number of activities like hiking, horse riding and mountain biking.
By Roxanne Reid
If you haven’t yet visited Cape Nature’s Anysberg Nature Reserve between Laingsburg, Ladismith and Montagu in the Karoo, do it now. It’s a special place for endangered plants and riverine rabbits, but you can also kick back and relax in the silence, gaze at the stars or choose from a number of activities like hiking, horse riding and mountain biking.
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Soon it's going to be the summer holidays and we’ll all be looking for fun stuff to do around South Africa. I asked five travel bloggers to share their favourite things to do along the themes of food, culture and fresh air in 5 South African cities. Here’s what they picked in the cities they know best.
By Roxanne Reid Completely bald and dressed in bright purple, she’s standing at the garden gate waiting to welcome us. We’ve come to Nostalgie restaurant in Oudtshoorn, Klein Karoo, to see why Tripadvisor lists it as number one of nearly 30 in the town. By Roxanne Reid Spion Kop near Winterton in KwaZulu-Natal was the site of one of the most futile battles of the Anglo-Boer War. The Brits, frankly, made a bit of a hash of it. At the end of a long hot day of fighting, at least 380 people were dead but nothing much had been achieved. It’s a sad example of how to botch a battle. By Roxanne Reid
You’d think that a pride of 14 lions would be unstoppable, able to take down any animal of their choosing. But in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park recently, a different scenario played out. Watch what happens when a young elephant takes on 14 lions. By Roxanne Reid If you’ve stayed at Kruger National Park’s Satara camp you’ll know that you can tick off the Big Five in a matter of a couple of hours in the morning and then again in the afternoon. Sometimes it’s just too much excitement. So we like to spend time at Kruger’s Sweni hide: an antidote for Big Five Fever. By Roxanne Reid Seven years ago I found myself falling in love with Mapungubwe National Park on my first visit. Everything had me under its spell, from the enormous baobabs and gnarl-rooted fig trees clawing their way out of rock, to the red rock formations and the cultural history. So I was really looking forward to our second visit and hoping that guide Moses Baloyi would be there to share more about this place he loved. |
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