I am way behind in publishing this final installment of the Blogitects' December Limpopo roadtrip. (Read the first three installments here, here, and here.) Marakele National Park was our last stop on the journey [...]
Leshiba Wilderness was the third stop on the Blogitects' Limpopo road trip. Read about our first and second stops. Like last week, I don't know how to start writing this post because I don't [...]
Mapungubwe National Park was the second stop on the Blogitects' Limpopo road trip. Read about our first and third stops. I've been procrastinating on this post about Mapungubwe National Park because I don't know [...]
Magoebaskloof was the first stop on the Blogitects’ Limpopo road trip. Read about our second and third stops. As I mentioned in my previous post, Thorsten and I (a.k.a. the Blogitects) took a 10-day road trip [...]
It's been weeks since my stay at Kings Walden -- in Agatha, Limpopo, above the town of Tzaneen -- and I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to write about it. Perhaps [...]
I love Limpopo and I also love African craft art. So when I went to Madi a Thavha Mountain Lodge -- a lodge outside Louis Trichardt in far northern Limpopo that promotes the work [...]
I spent seven days driving 1500 kilometres (about 1000 miles), mostly alone in my very tiny car, through Limpopo. An 800-year-old baobab tree above the Madi a Thavha Mountain Lodge in northern Limpopo. I [...]
Today is Nelson Mandela Day. July 18th was Nelson Mandela's birthday (he died in 2013 and would have been 101 today), and while it's not an official holiday, it's a day when South Africans [...]
I have safaried in every possible fashion during my years in Africa. I've done low-budget camping trips, high-end tented camps, mid-range SANPark self-drives, river safaris, and walking safaris. You name it, I've probably done [...]
Over the recent long weekend I spent two days at Mhondoro Safari Lodge in the Welgevonden Game Reserve, which is in the Waterberg region of Limpopo. This trip amazed me in several ways, the [...]
Although I generally avoid shopping, I love to buy things when I travel -- especially in Africa (which is most of my traveling these days). So when Afristay asked me to write a post [...]
Before my recent trip, I hadn't fully grasped how large the Kruger National Park is. The park is 19,500 square kilometers (7,523 square miles), spread over a pipe-shaped area 360 kilometers (220 miles) long and [...]