Top African destinations to explore on foot
Africa is not always at the top of the list for walking holidays, but this continent has a lot to offer trekkers and is incredibly varied. It’s hard to narrow down the best places for hiking in Africa, but here are a few of the top options if you’re looking for something a little different [...]
South African Culture 101
Unfortunately my time at Go Girl has come to an end, which means this will be our last trip together. So rather than focus on one particular place, I thought I’d offer you a broad strokes overview of my home instead. A while ago Beth mentioned to me that she’d love to know more about [...]
The Water Warrior: Sheree Ann Marinus
Water. Can you imagine a world without water? It’s hard to believe, but that’s where we’re heading. That is where Africa is heading. That is where South Africa is heading. Water and our future are intertwined in some possible doom. We just can’t lose it. The world has seen a rise in a global faction [...]
A Boat Ride Back in Time
After living in Cape Town for almost seven years, Sporty and I finally got around to visiting Robben Island, the Mother City’s second most popular tourist attraction. Now a national and world heritage site, the 518-hectare rocky outcrop in Table Bay served as a convenient dumping ground for nearly 400 years to colonial and apartheid [...]
The Pros and Cons of Visiting Cape Town During the Holidays
A friend in Alaska asked me recently when the best time is to visit the Mother City (as Cape Town is affectionately known by the locals). Unfortunately, as is the case with most popular tourist destinations, the good weather is also when the city is at its busiest. Cape Town is also notorious for having [...]
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Exploring Your Own Backyard
Too often traveling conjures up grandiose scenarios involving interminably long flights, layovers in obscure airports and many dusty hours on a rickety bus. Or at least that’s how I imagine my first trip to India might be like. To be honest, I’m not even sure I’ll ever make it to India. On the one hand [...]
Waylaid by a Naked Mexican
With the exception of places like Tsarabanjina, a small island off the northwest coast of Madagascar, which you can apparently circumnavigate on foot in a matter of hours, most cities require days and even weeks to properly explore. Cape Town is no different. The Mother City, as us locals like to call it, is a [...]
Johannesburg…At Dawn
Is Johannesburg beautiful? At first glance, One may not think it so, but this is one of the most difficult questions to answer. The story of the global metropolis as a “loved one” or a “lover” is not a foreign concept. I think of the passion evoked when New Yorkers, Parisians and Romans talk about [...]
Africa, Alive: A Toast To Nature, Dlamini-Zuma and Snow days
There are a multitude of things that the African continent has yet to experience. The most liberal form of freedom, economic independence and the true end to neo-colonialism would probably be at the top of the list…and rightly so. But, in my quest to express my existence on this continent formerly known as the “Dark One/Stepchild of the [...]
From Transkei With Love
The desire to understand the complex system that is “freedom” on the African continent is a strong one. It has been a mess of colorful joy and utter sadness coupled with anything from disbelief to chaos. I spent some time hovering in and out of the almost “alternate” spheres of rural-urban Gauteng, South Africa. Everything [...]
