Seven Days in Cape Town By Sean Fraser When I think back on my first vacation in Cape Town (one week) I’m reminded of lots of time in the passenger seat of our car – usually stuck in traffic – hauling from one end of the city to the other to get some sightseeing done. [...]

In the early 1960s, William Smith made a movie about visiting the Garden Route starting Carol Malan and Pieter Snyman as young lovers on holiday. This vid includes interviews with them shortly before they viewed it in December 2010 (for the first time in 50 years … and in Carol’s case, for the first time [...]

By Sue Derwent, with photos by Roger de la Harpe There’s a photo on the first page of chapter nine of ‘KwaZulu-Natal; Adventures in Culture and Nature’ that I’m still trying to get my head around. It’s a picture of a tiny (no, tiny) crocodile basking on a lily leaf that’s floating between the lily’s [...]

Touring South Africa’s National Parks By Michael Brett Published by Struik Travel and Heritage; Paperback: 64 pages. To say that South Africa is ‘unique’ is an absolute understatement. We have the worlds’ oldest human fossils, we enjoy (and, yes, sometimes we struggle) with the most colourful of cultural melting pots – and we have a [...]

Published by Struik Travel & Heritage.Soft cover, 248 pages, 240mm by 210mm. 360 black-and-white and full-colour photographs. R 280.00 retail (R 238.00 here). Did you have the privilege of meeting Kingsley Holgate and his team during their epic journey along the outside edge of Africa? It was the kind of journey we’d like to have [...]