“Have you booked any activites?” asked the lovely lady at our Guesthouse in Swakopmund. We looked at each other and obviously our idea of having a more leisurely day by the ocean is not the most common thing people come…
Sossusvlei the Namibian dessert
Words are hard to describe the desert of Namibia. It is so stunning, so incredibly hard to describe how that can be so much beauty in such a lifeless place. But its there and a couple of days at a…
Wine and Windhoek
It has been a busy few days but we’ve finally arrived in Namibia, I’m sitting in the lounge in my lodge, looking out over the Namibian desert. We just wrapped up the remaining sights of Cape Town and then flew…
To the southern tip of Africa or not?
With Table Mountain missing in action for the week so far and our trip to Robben island being postponed (for now, cancelled as i write), we hoped to have our next must see highlight hit the mark and we be…
Cape Town
Two days into my Cape Town stay and I’ve experienced just about every weather condition possible except for snow and apparently they had snow on Table Mountain not long ago. Not that I’ve seen table mountain clearly yet! Tourist trap…
Hippo gangster paradise
St Lucia, South Africa isn’t a place that woukld roll off the tip of many peoples tongue and know where it is. Some more worldy travellers would say, wait the country in the carribean. I know i knew very littkle…
In-Sani-ty Pass
The Sani Pass has long been one of those things I have to do someday, ever since i saw a documentary on it. For some reason this dirt road with numerous switchbacks from South Africa to the kingdom of Lesotho…
Buenos Aires part 2
Lets be honest, I couldn’t see what the fuss was about Buenos aires the first time I visited way back in 2010. It was hyped up as some amazing city, yet all I found were pickpockets, a big city and…
Penguins, Penguins, Penguins!
The last two day in antarctica were the worst and best of Antarctica. A full day of zodiac crusing and landing was cancelled due to a weather system with winds in excess of 100km/h. The mood was low that day,…
Black and White and Blue
I can’t describe the feeling as we sighted the South Shetland islands, the massive mountains of snow and ice towering from the ocean. I can’t describe the feelingwhen i set foot on Half Moon island with a small colony of…