South African wines finally getting attention abroad
JOHANNESBURG - South Africans recently celebrated the 350th anniversary of their wine industry, proudly noting that it is generations older than any New World wines from Australia or South America. The wines are relatively new to the international market, however, because decades of United Nations …
Safarigoers catch awesome sights at Namibia park
Lori Rackl: I never thought I'd play chicken with an elephant. But there I stood in an open-roofed safari jeep, square in the path of the world's largest land mammal. The thirsty, tusked behemoth was en route to water and we were in its way. All six of us in the jeep watched silently as it lumbered closer, stopping a few feet short of the vehicle.
Get to know the World Cup host cities
JOHANNESBURG - Meet the nine South African cities hosting World Cup soccer matches through July 11: Bloemfontein Both the defunct National Party - the party of apartheid - and the African National Congress were founded in this university town in the country's agricultural heartland. The …
Cape Town has rock-bottom beauty
Clare Nullis: One of the world's most beautiful cities is also one of the cheapest. Cape Town, the sparkling jewel in South Africa's tourist crown, regularly wins international travel awards.
One wish on an African safari: How about five
Some people on safari get so obsessed with seeing the "Big Five," they overlook the bush's raw beauty and less famous animal inhabitants. I am one of those people. The obsessive-compulsive part of me says that if I don't lay eyes on those five fearsome creatures, my safari experience somehow will be incomplete, unfinished. So here I am in South Africa, with less than 48 hours to spend on safari in the sprawling Sabi Sabi private game reserve next to Kruger National Park. That's not a lot of time to bag the Big Five.
Road tripping in South Africa
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Far from the crowds and traffic on South Africa's much-vaunted coastal Garden Route is a stunning inland alternative that passes unnoticed by most visitors. Route 62 - which evokes comparisons with legendary Route 66 between Chicago and Los Angeles - …
Safari 101: How to plan, what to expect
MAUN, Botswana -- I wish I'd done my homework before we boarded the plane bound for Botswana's Okavango Delta on our first African safari. By the time we reached Chief's Camp in the Moremi Game Reserve we'd been in the air more than 24 hours. …
