At the end of our Kosi Bay stop, Bevan and I found ourselves tantalizingly close to Mozambique. Stray along the border Kosi Bay is in fact only a few kilometres from the Farazela Border Post between South Africa and Mozambique, and the dunes at the Kosi Bay mouth are clearly visible from the border town…
Bevan and I have just been fortunate enough to have spent some time in the Coastal Forest section of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. This area of the park includes the stretch of northern KwaZulu-Natal coastline between Sodwana Bay and Kosi Bay near the Mozambique border. This is a remote section of coastline, accessible for the most part…
Hi everyone. We left things off last time inside the Hluhluwe/iMfolozi Game Reserve. Since then, we’ve headed back into the iSimangaliso Wetland Park and had a week characterised by extreme weather that changed just about every plan we had. Somehow though, things have a way of working themselves out. We were sad to leave the Hluhluwe/iMfolozi Game…
Welcome to our second update from the St Lucia section of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. Expectations exceeded If someone had asked us before we started the trip how long we thought we’d spend in this area, we would have said three days, possibly four to be generous? We were sure that that would have been…
We’re writing from St Lucia again, but this time we have something a little bit different to report back on: Trail Running The iSimangaliso and KZN Trail Running Pilot Event We were recently invited to take part in a pilot trail running event in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, hosted by iSimangaliso and KZN Trail Running. The purpose of…
Today we’re writing from the Cape Vidal section of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. The iSimangaliso Wetland Park iSimangaliso is a park that needs no introduction. It was proclaimed as South Africa’s very first UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. It was awarded this status for its unique ecosystems, its biodiversity and sheer beauty. This is…
Hi everyone and welcome to stop number 2 on the Ultimate South African Road Trip: This week we’re visiting Mtunzini. Mtunzini and the Umlalazi Nature Reserve Mtunzini is a small coastal village about 130 km north of Durban. I’ve lived in Durban my whole life and this is the first time I’ve ever been to Mtunzi….
Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan are two small islands off the coast of Bali. Together with the main island Nusa Penida, this archipelago makes up the Penida District of Indonesia. Travelling to Nusa Lembongan requires a ferry transfer from Sanur in Bali which is roughly 20 kilometres across the channel. This trip can take anything…
Mozambique: 7 Adventurers, 4 bikes (sometimes only 3), 1 mission – Find El Paradiso. The quest for El Paradiso in Mozambique The concept of “El Paradiso” was first presented to me by one of our team members on a recent cycle tour of the southern coast of Mozambique. At first it was just a funny way…
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