Top tips for sustainable travel
So: many of you are travelling home or to a holiday destination, local or international. You’re driving or flying kilometres across the country, across continents or oceans… using fossil fuel. By touchdown, your carbon footprint is heavy. That’s okay (there...
Finding rubbish in paradise. How we cleaned up Dassen Island
When the boat pulls up at the island’s jetty we’re all talking about the water. It’s bright turquoise, crystal clear and the sand below is white. We’re not in the tropics. We’ve sped 10 km across the ocean from Yzerfontein on the West Coast, 87 km from Cape...
Walking the Baviaans Camino will put a little soul in your heart
It’s a bitterly cold morning deep in a kloof beside a rocky riverbed in the Eastern Cape. We emerge from our tents exhaling steam. The tops of the indigenous trees have only just started to catch the light. We need to be on the road by 8am if we’re to walk the...
Hotel review: Spier walks the talk
The Spier Hotel has everything and more you’d expect from a four-star hotel: 153 rooms, conference centres, restaurants, an artists’ studio and expansive gardens… The décor is stylish while not intimidating, and contemporary South African art is displayed throughout...Advertisement
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