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The last and final leg of my journey leads up from the South Coast and Durban, north towards Johannesburg, stopping only once at the excellent Drakensberg mountain range. The Amphitheatre is in the Northern Drakensberg, a huge bowl shaped area of valleys, canyons and cliffs which stretch up to some of the highest peaks in […]
Read More South Africa Part8 – The DrakensbergSo the rather unimaginatively named South Coast stretches on from the start of the Kwazulu Natal up until Durban, where it switches again to Zululand. Only a couple of stops along this stretch for me, although there’a good few options for Bazbusers. Umzumbe was my first, and unlike the name may suggest, it’s much more westernised […]
Read More South Africa Part7 – The South CoastThe Wild Coast stretches from East London, through to the end of the Eastern Cape, where it joins the Kwazulu Natal province. First stop into the Wild Coast, was the rather underwhelming Chintsa, a pleasant and beautiful beach hostel, and across the estuary and quiet and functional town. Interestingly, crossing to the town has to […]
Read More South Africa Part6 – The Wild CoastSo, continuing with my Bazbus journey along the south coast of Africa I came to The Sunshine Coast, the section the leads from the Garden Route past Port Elizabeth and joins the Wild Coast in the east. I think it officially starts at Storms River, which was just something we passed over (I had […]
Read More South Africa Part5 – The Sunshine CoastSo this might not be the most comprehensive list, as I’ve not been everywhere, but I’ve seen a few spots, and here’s my favourites 1. Queenstown, New Zealand Queenstown is probably the most tourist orientated town in the world, it’s also surprisingly small. Considering it’s fame it really is tiny, but that is because the only thing it […]
Read More Favourites – The best places in the world according to meThe Garden Route stretches along the southern coast of South Africa, from Mossel Bay in the West along to Storms River in the East. I was using the Basbaz as transport so couldn’t explore every town, but could explore all the ones that are worth exploring. Skipping Mossel Bay I headed straight to Oudtshoorn, which isn’t really part […]
Read More South Africa Part4 – The Garden RouteIt’s all about wine up in this area of South Africa, and as a non-drinker, it was pretty interesting to see what else was on offer in Stellenbosch. The town itself is very pretty, nice old European architecture in all the main streets, and the town centre is spacious and filled with rather nice […]
Read More South Africa Part3 – StellenboschJohannesburg has a bad reputation as far as capitals go, but if you’re willing to put some effort in, there’s some gems dotted around. The hostel situation isn’t great, there’s quite a few, but most seem to be pretty quiet, and lacking in actual travelers – although I guess it was nice to some friendly […]
Read More South Africa Part2 – JohannesburgI traveled over to SA on my ‘long way home’ trip, after my Chinese Visa was declined (one day, when I’ve written all these blogs up I’ll put links in!) I had a good friend over there, and now I have a few more. It’s not exactly en-route between Hanoi and London, but I wanted […]
Read More South Africa – As cheap as Asia, as exciting as Australia!Lets start with some honesty – I love Cape Town! So this might be a little biased. The city centre is all nestled nicely under the watchful cliffs of Table mountain, in fact the centre is pretty much surrounded with Signal Hill and the Lions Head boxing it in against the Atlantic Ocean. It’s a […]
Read More South Africa Part1 – Cape Town
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