by 2summers | Sep 3, 2019 | Western Cape
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)...
by 2summers | Aug 8, 2019 | Western Cape
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...
by 2summers | Jul 2, 2019 | Limpopo, Lodging, Parks/Nature Reserves
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 it. But when it comes to...
by 2summers | Jun 25, 2019 | Joburg Weekend Getaways, Limpopo, Parks/Nature Reserves
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 first of which was how close Welgevonden is to Joburg (about two-and-a-half...
by 2summers | Jun 28, 2018 | Arts and Culture, Joburg Weekend Getaways, Lodging, Parks/Nature Reserves, Pretoria
I recently went to the Dinokeng Game Reserve for a quick, one-night media visit. Dinokeng opened officially in 2011 — pieced together from a bunch of private farms — and is the only free-roaming Big 5 game reserve in Gauteng province. (The Big 5 are lion,...