Travelogues South Africa

After last night's culinary highs, we slept like marmots and are now ready to embrace the new day with fresh energy. The weather forecast promises warm temperatures, but rain...

Namibia 2024: The Farewell While I am writing our last blog entry of this trip, we are already sitting on the train from Frankfurt Airport to Dortmund. We had a nice...

Today was a day for the soul 🧡We had so many special moments that we will never forget 🥹 We started with a delicious breakfast. Strengthened, we then set off on the safari. We...

The day started with a delicious breakfast in the cooking school restaurant. Afterwards we went to the Addo Elephant Park. Big problem today... temperatures around 37 degrees 🥵...

Luckily Anni is feeling better 🙏🏼So today we went to Simon's Town at Boulders Beach to look at the penguins. The penguins live freely on the beach 🐧At the end there was some...

Another very beautiful and again a bit challenging hike up to Lion‘s head with ladders and chain ropes. Started not too late with climbing up Lion's head first which seemed to...

After some really fresh fruit salad for bfast and packing up, we left the car at the hotel and did the last bit of the cliff walk up to the Harbour in Hermanus where the whale...

Today we left our lodge in Hazyview and took the approximately four-hour drive to Johannesburg airport. There, an domestic flight to Port Elizabeth was waiting for us. Both the...

After our first (good) night in Stellenbosch, we were greeted in the morning with a very good breakfast of fruits, granola, and yogurt. After a brief call with the business, we...

Last morning hunt with Jason, then it's time to pack up and get ready to leave. At 05:15 we met in the main house with Guido, Susanne, and Jason and went on our last morning...

Today, it was an early wake-up call at 4:45 am, the mobile phone rang and at 5:00 am the lodge called to wake us up. After a quick wash and getting dressed (layers of clothing),...

On Sunday evening around 11:00 pm, with a delay of about half an hour because some passengers were missing, the Edelweiss WK84 from Zurich to Cape Town took off. The airplane...

Today we met at about 10 o'clock at Studer's accommodation, Ashford House, and walked together to the platform of the Winetram in Franschhoek. After exchanging the reservation for...

We had a real adventure! Maxima had been saying over and over again that she really wanted something like this for her birthday: An evening 'Game Drive' with a park ranger in a...

With 20,000 square kilometers, Kruger is one of the largest national parks in Africa and is the size of Rhineland-Palatinate. And there are sooooo many animals to see....

On the way...

On Thursday and Friday, we wanted to tackle Table Mountain, but it was always cloudy and partly rainy. So we kept postponing it to the next day, without success. On Thursday, I...

On Friday afternoon, I finally landed in Cape Town. Cape Town alone has almost twice as many inhabitants with nearly 4 million residents than the whole of Namibia with its mere...

January 23, 2018: Bloemfontein is the sixth largest city (250,000 inhabitants) in South Africa and we spend two nights here. Unfortunately in different accommodations, as we...

A tour to Boulders Beach, Cape Point, Cape of Good Hope, and Houe Bay

The hike up Table Mountain started spectacularly and ended quite sobering. But it was still a beautiful day.

Hey guys, sorry for the delay but I've been quite busy the last few days. As you might already know, South Africa is well known for its different wines - especially Sauvignon...

Day 139 of 175: World Cruise - Durban/South Africa

We are back again!

Good morning, you wonderful Africa! Today promises to be a fantastic day in Franschhoek! Our adventure began with a "cozy" breakfast at our Stellenbosch Manor before we set...

After the exciting day yesterday, we took it easy today. We had a leisurely breakfast and then took the shuttle to Camps Bay Beach. It is an attractive beach section of Cape...

Almost on time at 8 o'clock we rolled out of the driveway of our hotel in Pietermaritzburg and set off for Pretoria. A 530 km journey lay ahead of us. The bus journey was mainly...

Today we're starting super early for our standards 😂 We went to see the penguins in Simon's Town again. We had been given a tip about where you can splash around in the water...

After the suitcases were packed and the car was loaded, we set off for a picnic. We had booked the picnic at the Boschendal winery online in advance. The winery is currently...