This is a quick photo story about a fantastic long weekend we recently spent at Santa Nature Reserve, a privately owned nature reserve/fishing estate in Dullstroom. Dullstroom is a tourist town in Mpumalanga province, [...]
I’ve been to Swaziland many times. During my early years in South Africa, Swaziland felt almost like a second home to me. But I hadn’t been to Swaziland since it was renamed Eswatini in [...]
As discussed previously – what now seems like an eternity ago – Thorsten and I took a road trip through Mpumalanga province over the Christmas holidays. Our final stop on that trip was Kokiville [...]
In December, the Blogitects embarked on an 11-day journey across Mpumalanga province (with a brief interlude in Eswatini). We spent the first few days in the southern half of the Panorama Route. Thorsten standing [...]
After many months in isolation, I've noticed my five senses have heightened significantly. The world is louder and brighter than it was before the pandemic. Flowers smell sweeter and food tastes better, especially when [...]
Kaapsehoop is the (long belated) third stop in my #10SouthAfricanTowns project, for which I’m visiting ten small towns across South Africa. Read about my first stop in Val and my second stop in Kameel. In [...]
Val is the first stop in my #10SouthAfricanTowns campaign, for which I'm visiting ten small towns across South Africa in 2020. After months of talking about it, my #10SouthAfricanTowns campaign has finally begun. I [...]
Picasso's Mexican Taqueria, which I've decided is South Africa's best Tex-Mex restaurant, is not in Joburg or Cape Town. It's in a small tourist town in Mpumalanga province called White River, not far from [...]
We drove down a dusty KwaMahlanga street, bordered by beige and brown houses. I saw dogs, chickens, and goats, all in various earth tones. Orange and lemon trees, laden with late-winter fruit, provided periodic [...]
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 [...]
I like birds as much as the next person, but I am not a Birder with a capital B. In fact, I've been known to make fun of Birders occasionally. (Sorry, Birder friends. You [...]
I've just come back from a week with Ray and his family in the Kruger National Park. I'm not sure where to begin writing about it. This was an extraordinary trip. Sunrise in the Kruger. [...]