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The Multi-Generational Holiday Trend.
With the hectic pace of life and demanding schedules making for days packed with commitments as we balance work and home life, it’s no surprise that the travel industry is seeing a rise in family-focused
Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, a heaving metropolis that creeps into your heart.
The first thing to strike you about Ho Chi Minh City will be how the streets teem with family laden scooters, and how bicycles, cars and carts weave seamlessly between pedestrians as they go about
Samara Private Game Reserve, rewilding the plains of Camdeboo.
“Have we forgotten that wilderness is not a place, but a pattern of the soul where every tree, every bird and beast is a soul maker?” – Ian McCallum As I turned onto the dirt track
Thanda Safari, a place of wilderness and wildlife in KwaZulu Natal. South Africa.
My Thanda Safari article is in the new SA and Beyond printed magazine and online page 12-16, or below for your ease of reading. Thanda Safari, a place of wilderness and wildlife. Time in the bush offers
Bringing The Big Cats Home to Lionsrock Big Cat Sanctuary with FOUR PAWS.
If you’ve ever boycotted a circus, a zoo or a fur farm in the name of animal rights, you’ll understand the heartbreak involved in the rescue of captive animals. South African Lionsrock Cat Sanctuary
Hiking the Overberg’s Blue Mountain Trail.
A three-day slackpacking hike is a great way to experience the Overberg’s flora and fauna … and reinvigorate both body and mind. Nothing puts life into perspective like retreating to the mountains, taking time to appreciate
The secret places travel writers go to regenerate, British Airways High Life SA.
Waiting to exhale. Unplug and disconnect. In this month’s British Airways ‘High Life South Africa’ in-flight magazine, one of my bests Pippa de Bruyn, speaks to a collection of my favourite travel writers – and
The Rise Of Ethical Travel, my thoughts.
I was asked to contribute my thoughts on this very important topic and how we should be looking to travel moving forward. The Ethical Tourist, by Tamsin Oxford, for the Mail and Guardian. Read
The trend of the digital detox, for Sawubona Magazine.
The “disconnect to reconnect” travel trend clearly indicates a need to rethink our relationship with digital distractions. I spoke to Sawubona Magazine about taking a break from it all and how I now, regularly retreat
Natural Born Hiker. My Love for Walking in this months khuluma in-flight magazine.
Natural Born Hiker. My Journey to Mountain Trails. All it requires is putting one foot in front of the other – plus a commitment and a bit of planning. I time travelled back to the
Visiting the Cape Winelands? Here are a few ways to do so in complete luxury.
The Cape Winelands serves as a natural choice for anybody who appreciates the finer things in life. Be it for an escape from reality as you indulgently fly in for lunch, sip bubbly after a
Practical Safety Tips for Female Travellers.
There are endless places to see in this world and travel beckons, as does discovery. Yet as women travellers it is important to ensure our safety at all times, as no place in this world
The Wild Horses of Kleinmond.
In the Overberg town of Kleinmond roams a herd of feral horses. These majestic beasts live a life of freedom, their dark manes flowing in the wind. My story on The Wild Horses of Kleinmond,
A retreat (to myself) in Rishikesh, India.
In October last year, I travelled to a city with 100 000 people to find silence and solitude. Read about my time in Rishikesh with Namaste Retreats India, in the latest Sure Travel Journey magazine.
My Travel Trend predictions for 2019.
As 2018 drew to a close we could reflect on the trips we’d taken, whilst anticipating the potential and promise of the new year. From 2018 we will carry forward the anti-plastic movement, our concerns
Kimberley a Diamond of a City.
‘Set in the Northern Cape, the city of Kimberley was founded in the 1870’s on the hope and fervor of the diamond rush that saw prospectors descend on the area to stake their claims with