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Africa

Thoughts on Trip Through South Africa Eastern Cape Province

South Africa is a land of great contrasts with big modern cities and dirt poor townships. Yet when people speak about the country it’s usually about the Big 5 animals like lions or a golden sunset on a wide open Savannah landscape dotted with Thorn trees.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m as much of a fan [...]

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Photo Highlights – South Africa Eastern Cape

I had a great time travelling through the Eastern Cape province of South Africa with a group of journalists from around the world as a guest of Tourism South Africa for a week in September. It’s hard to get a true feeling of a country in one week when you’re travelling with a group of [...]

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Dahab, Egypt – Chilling out Snorkeling in the Red Sea

GUEST ARTICLE: The view of the landscape as we were flying into Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport was amazing! Golden desert sands flanked some of the bluest pristine waters we have ever seen – the magnificent Red Sea. After landing we were met by our hotel pickup and then began our short one-hour journey [...]

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Cairo Egypt – Wondrous Sights and Life after the Revolution

GUEST ARTICLE:Visiting Cairo has always been a dream for us. We had initially booked last year and were eagerly anticipating our trip at the end of May 2011. Then the Egyptian Revolution happened in January. As the revolution carried on into February we thought we were going to have to re-book, especially since our Australian [...]

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Morocco’s Marvellous Marrakech

GUEST ARTICLE:On the flight to Marrakech I witnessed the most magnificent sunset I have ever seen, a beautiful orange blending into a dazzling deep blue – the contrast was stunning and I felt it was a sign (set the scene for) of what awaited us when we reached our destination.

We landed at Menara Airport, Marrakech [...]

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Winter in Cape Town, South Africa

GUEST ARTICLE: The weather was freezing when we arrived in Cape Town and the dark clouds and persistent light drizzle never made it any better. After picking up our car at the airport we set up our car navigator (something I would highly recommend) and headed into the city.

The traffic wasn’t as bad as we [...]

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Casablanca Morocco – A Different World (With Fantastic Food)

GUEST ARTICLE: Casablanca, Morocco didn’t exactly have the romantic sentiments feel that was expressed in the famous movie. We arrived on a hot June afternoon and as we meandered through a maze of dirty streets and highly congested traffic we found our hotel located in the old area of the city (Maamoura Hotel – [...]

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Spectacular Namib Desert Sand Dunes in Sossusvlei, Namibia

GUEST ARTICLE: Our drive from the little town of Swakopmund located on the Skeleton Coast to the Sossusvlei took us about 4 hours. The Sossusvlei is in the heart of the Namib Desert. We stayed at the Betesda Lodge located about half an hour the entrance of the park. It was hard to [...]

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Vingerklip Rock Formation, Damaraland, Namibia

GUEST ARTICLE: After our trip around Etosha National Park we headed south into Damaraland to a popular tourist attraction called Vingerklip (“Rock Finger” in Afrikaans) located amongst some other impressive rock formations called the Ugab Terraces.

Vingerklip is an incredible rock structure that has been formed over 15 million years and stands 35 meters high. [...]

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Do-it-Yourself Safari in Etosha National Park, Namibia

GUEST ARTICLE: We left Perth Airport on June 10th at 11pm and flew a long 12 hours before ending up in Joburg (Johannesburg, South Africa). I think we got about a whole 3 hours sleep on the plane and then had to wait 4 hours in the Joburg airport before getting on our final [...]

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