From the Beach to the Desert, Part 2: Oudtshoorn

From the Beach to the Desert, Part 2: Oudtshoorn

After spending two days overlooking the beach in Plettenberg Bay (see part 1), our group of lady journalists took a quick hop over the Outeniqua Mountains to spend two days in the desert town of Oudtshoorn. Sunrise in Oudtshoorn, pronounced something (but not exactly)...
Monday Morning With a Mob of Meerkats

Monday Morning With a Mob of Meerkats

Early Monday morning I sat on a camping chair in the desert outside a town called Oudtshoorn, watching a family of meerkats emerge from their burrow as the sun came up. The meerkats hung out for a while — stretching, sunning their little bellies, scanning the...