North West (Category) - 20 posts

Thorsten and I spent the night in Kameel on our way to a crazy week of driving around the Northern Cape. We stayed in a retro campovan.

We visited the 2-billion-year-old Vredefort Dome -- earth's largest and oldest known meteorite crater, which is only 1.5 hours from Joburg.

The Aloe Farm, about an hour from Joburg near Hartbeespoort Dam, is the best place to enjoy South Africa's winter explosion of aloes.

I spent the night at the Donkey Dairy in Magaliesburg with a delightful herd of blue-eyed donkeys and miniature goats.

Kameel, which means "camel" in Afrikaans, is a small farming community in North West province. It was the second stop on my #10SouthAfricanTowns tour.

Potchefstroom is a historic university town about an hour and a half from Johannesburg. I spent about 24 hours there and had way more fun than I expected.

I went hot air ballooning at Bill Harrop's Original Balloon Safaris and watched part of the SA National Hot Air Balloon Championships.

In the final installment of my adventures in North West Province, I spend the day in the glitzy, Vegas-like resort of Sun City.

I spent a long weekend in Groot Marico, the historic home of South African author Herman Charles Bosman. It was a whacky few days.

One month after its opening, I visited the Jacob Zuma Arrest Site in Groot Marico, Northwest Province. It was...an interesting experience.

I recently decided to get out of town for a few days to work on a writing project. I wanted to stay somewhere inexpensive, relatively close to Joburg, and …

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