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Africa

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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