Good on The New York Times for publishing an article on South African culinary options…I suppose something is better than nothing in this case. For those without a subscription, an article entitled “A Culinary Gateway to Cape Town” appeared on the travel section of The New York Time’s website on Wednesday morning. The composite image above […]
A long, long time ago when there was still Apartheid, I needed a passport to travel by bus from Cape Town to Durban in South Africa. That meant going through the “independent homeland” of Transkei in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. If you forgot that’s where the state banished surplus black people and from where capital […]
The newest in expat chic? Bujumbura, “a freewheeling city of palm trees and colonial-era Art Deco buildings thrust against the shores of Lake Tanganyika [where] Congolese, Rwandans and aid workers from across the region are flocking to the city’s nightclubs, dancing till dawn and nursing their hangovers on the area’s fine lakeside beaches.” That’s according […]
Recently The New York Times published a list of ‘The 31 Places to Go in 2010.’ Only one African destination made the list. Predictably South Africa. Specifically Cape Town and wildlife Safaris. They made it at number 22 in the “Waiting in the Wings” category. It’s tourism of course. The Full List.
