Not all travel adventures come with a minibar. Some come with ideas that make you think differently or expose you to wild spaces that exhilarate and challenge. Others are pure, fabulous SA flava. You'll find fabulous experiences, places (maybe even with minibars) and people here

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Marine Dynamics boat Dream Catcher in clear blue water as a whale dives beneath it off Gansbaai
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Whale watching in Gansbaai with Marine Dynamics (and a paper bag)

Four visitors standing in a field of blooming yellow daisies on a West Coast flower tour, South Africa
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West Coast guided flower tours vs self-drive: 12 reasons a guide wins

WOWeBIKES guides Vimbai Zaranyika and Kingsley Kaleso posing with their e-bikes on a road near Paternoster
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Paternoster e-bike tour: The fun West Coast experience anyone can do

Scarlet-breasted sunbird painted by artist Gail Darroll for the book Sunbirds and Sugarbirds of Southern Africa
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Scarlet-chested sunbird: it inspired a life of art (+ a new book)

Maputo city skyline at dawn, Mozambique, with high-rise buildings along the bay
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Xenophobia in South Africa: What it means for your next trip

Portrait of Michal 'Loopy' Luptak, co-founder of Dlala Nje, South Africa
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Dlala Nje in Cape Town: Michal Luptak on good tourism and N2 walls

Cathrin, cook and host at Cathrin's Curry Table, at the private dining table inside her garden shed in Knysna, South Africa
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Cathrin’s Curry Table: Knysna’s secret dining experience

Cindy-Lee Cloete, CEO of WESSA, observing wildlife in a natural setting in South Africa
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WESSA’s CEO: “It was almost inevitable that I would go into conservation”

Ornithologist Miqkayla Stofberg looks at the birds of South Africa through binocular.
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Birds of South Africa take the lead role in this Cape Flats birder’s stories

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Out of all the seashores Veruska De Vita saw in her book research, these 7 are her favourite

Botanist Rupert Koopman next to vygies, a South African plant species, in Kirstenbosch Gardens
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How a Cape Town botanist uses plants to change how you see place

Ismail Ebrahim, head of the Custodians of Rare and Endangered Wildflowers at SANBI, in Kirstenbosch Gardens, In Cape Town, South Africa
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Every plant is a clue: How botanists decode the world around them

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Micro-travels: 3 social clubs to discover community close to home

Up the Creek — music, river swims and carefree summer energy, as demonstrated by this lovely sunbather
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2 summer festivals to restore your faith in fun and connection