South Africa Travel Guide

Hotels Close to the World Cup Stadium in Cape Town

Katie — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:19:33 +0000

Cape Town is South Africa’s most-visited city and there’s no shortage of accommodation options here, from luxurious four- and five-star hotels and inns to cheap and basic hostels. Visitors coming to the World Cup and hoping to snag accommodations near the Green Point Stadium will also have a range of possibilities. The stadium is located near [...]

Want to escape the World Cup? How about Germany?

Jessica — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:30:22 +0000

So if you’re paying attention to the sporting news lately, the World Cup is on everyone’s lips - and with good reason. We just passed the 100-days-until-kickoff mark, and the games are finally right around the corner. Footy fans the world over are in the home stretch, and the thousands upon thousands of lucky people [...]

Get ready for the World Cup 2010

Cristina — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:20:01 +0000

There aren’t many men who aren’t crazy about football (soccer) and there aren’t few women who are just as mad and cannot wait for World Cup 2010 to start. Every time when such major events take place, even those who don’t care much about football, turn themselves into fans (at least for a month). Unless you’ve [...]

Hotels close to the World Cup Stadium Durban

Peter Baxter — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:34:43 +0000

Durban has a huge hospitality industry thanks to its status as the South African working family’s preferred holiday destination and it’s role as the busiest port city in Africa. If you are looking for affordable hotel or lodge accommodation in the vicinity of the Moses Mabhida Stadium where the Durban matches are to be played [...]

Music in South Africa

Peter Baxter — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:09:53 +0000

South Africa has always been a popular international music venue. The nation’s political history made it a fashionable focus for 80s and 90s race protest and human rights related concert themes. A more gritty and populist revival of the SA vibe came into being with the help of Paul Simon who, in his 1986 roots exploration [...]

Bloemfontein – visiting tips for the World Cup

Peter Baxter — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:54:42 +0000

Bloemfontein, or Bloem to her friends, is the capital of the Free State Province. It is also the judicial capital of the nation and one of the quieter and more conservative cities of South Africa. Bloem is situated in the midst of the windswept grassland of the interior at an altitude of 4 500ft…perfect cheetah [...]

Port Elizabeth - visiting tips for the World Cup

Peter Baxter — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:59:37 +0000

Port Elizabeth, or PE as it is more widely known, is South Africa’s fifth largest city and touted as the nation’s watersport capital. It enjoys a singular advantage over Cape Town in this regard. The city is situated on the Indian Ocean and not the Atlantic, nor the turbulent merger of the two which tends [...]

Johannesburg - visiting tips for the world cup

Peter Baxter — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:00:48 +0000

Johannesburg, or Joburg as she is better known, is a large cosmopolitan city like no other in Africa. The site was originally a farmstead that erupted into rapid growth upon the discovery of vast gold deposits in the adjacent Witwatersrand in 1886. Joburg remained for a long time a goldrush town, and some would say [...]

Durban - visiting tips for the World Cup

Peter Baxter — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:32:25 +0000

While the city of Pietermartitzburg is the provincial capital of KwaZulu/Natal, Durban is the main port city and the de facto economic capital. It is also one of the liveliest and most atmospheric of all South African cities, with a little less of the deep history that characterizes Cape Town but with no less cosmopolitan [...]

Cape Town - visting tips for the World Cup

Peter Baxter — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:37:20 +0000

Of all the towns and cities in South Africa Cape Town is perhaps the one with the most to offer a casual visitor. The city of Cape Town is one of the oldest established municipalities in southern Africa. Only the earliest administrative settlements in Mozambique such as Ille de Moçambique, Inhambane and Maputo predate the [...]