"South Africa" Blogs & Blog Posts

My mum lives vicariously through me; she’s proudly told me so since I was a teen. When I told her that one of my biggest dreams was to go on a hot air balloon ride, she bought a Safari Flight for Two from Air Ventures Hot Air Ballooning for my 50th...

Thirty years ago, on 27 April 1994, South Africans voted in the first demographic general election in the country’s history. The National Party of the Apartheid regime was replaced by the government of the African National Congress and Nelson Mande...

I Cruise Silversea To See If Its New Owners Have Ruined It Four years ago, Royal Caribbean, best known for huge, good value resort ships, surprised many by buying Silversea, known for ultra-luxury small... The post I Cruise Silversea To S...

An angry elephant in South Africa terrified a bunch of tourists when it charged their safari truck, picking it up more than once and letting it crash hard to the ground. (See video below, posted by Latest Sightings.) The tourists, most of them crouch...

A sand-swimming golden was located in South Africa after not being detected for a whopping 86 years. The adorable creature, called "De Winton's golden mole," was declared a "lost species" after having last been spotted way back in 1937, but a group o...

Elitha Peachey's tee time was interrupted when a huge Cape cobra slithered onto the course at the Atlantic Beach Golf Club in Cape Town, South Africa. Video below. Seen in the background is a mongoose, the Cape cobra's main predator. As the Fark head...

It’s been years since I last went for an afternoon tea in Johannesburg. My lovely friend Sarah and I had High Tea at the Palazzo, Montecasino in 2015 and we decided that it was definitely time for another High Tea at the Just Teddy Fine Boulangerie...