If you ever find yourself in the Northern Hemisphere around December to February, bogged down in the winter blues, and in serious need of vitamin D, southern Spain is your answer. Specifically Andalusia. With only on average 7 days of rain in the rainiest month of December (compare that to 23 in Ireland…), it’s a …
The best way to visit Iceland on a budget is to not visit Iceland. While flight prices may be extremely cheap to this picturesque European destination, you likely will not get a good value for your travel money as you might in places like Africa or South America. We spent about $300 a day, or …
The Golden Circle is a fairly popular day trip route from Reykjavik, so the trick to enjoying the route is to stay ahead of the crowds and the tour buses. If you’re visiting Iceland during one of the endless daylight months (e.g. May, June, July or August), try getting to the first stop a few …
I wouldn’t normally recommend visiting a large chunk of a country in only a few days, but in Iceland’s case, staying any longer can put you into serious debt. I designed this leg of the trip to fit into three days, but if you are short on cash or time, you can terminate your journey …
If you’re trying to plan a trip to the Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), you’ll probably have realised by now there’s very little useful information to plan your trip. To be fair, Eswatini is overshadowed by the epic Drakensberg Mountains in the south and the rich wildlife of Kruger National Park in the north. That …
If you’re headed out to find the Big Five in Kruger, you might want to consider tacking on a detour to the Panorama Route to stretch your legs after all the safari drives. The route lies just west of Kruger National Park in Mpumalanga, stretching from Graskop in the south up to the Three Rondavels …
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Or go to Mexico. That’s what we did when we couldn’t enter the USA directly from South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic due to bans on virus variant countries. Even though Mexico was accessible for years while I lived in the States, it was never on my radar. …
You’ll probably recognise bits of Croatia from parts of Game of Throne’s Kings Landing, but if you haven’t seen the HBO hit, you’ll probably recognise it nonetheless from its stunning coastlines and unreal waterfalls. I’ve visited three times now, and I still have a million reasons to go back. Luckily, of all the European countries …
Overview The Garden Route stretches between beautiful coastal towns from Witsand to Nature’s Valley in the Western Cape, South Africa. Technically, TsiTsikamma isn’t part of the Garden Route, but its lush forests tempted us to include this park as our farthest point east on our Garden Route trip. We only had 5 days we could …
No one wears sand better than Namibia. The sand dunes at Sesriem are like stepping into a National Geographic photo. And walking around the sand dune filled buildings at the abandoned mining town feels like walking around a Vogue covershoot.