by 2summers | Feb 20, 2024 | Joburg Weekend Getaways, Johannesburg, Lodging, Parks/Nature Reserves
Those of you who follow me on Instagram may have noticed I’ve been hiking a lot lately. I’ve always loved to hike. But for some reason — maybe because I now have a car that can take me to any hiking trail in South Africa — I’ve started...
by 2summers | Jan 10, 2024 | Limpopo, Parks/Nature Reserves, The Blogitects
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 where to start. Mapungubwe, which is...
by 2summers | Feb 2, 2022 | KwaZulu-Natal, Lodging, Parks/Nature Reserves
A couple of weeks ago, I complained to a friend that I never have good big cat sightings when I go on safari. (I know it’s an absurd thing to complain about. But I’m a travel blogger in South Africa, after all.) The very next day, I received a last-minute...
by 2summers | Jan 7, 2022 | Johannesburg, Johannesburg Day Trips, Parks/Nature Reserves
I last blogged about the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve, a huge Joburg City Park on the south side of the city, more than 11 years ago. I don’t normally like to blog about the same place twice but I think it’s time for a Klipriviersberg refresher....
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...