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We drove about 45 minutes from Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha) to the Volkswagen AutoPavilion, an ultra-modern heritage centre and automotive museum at the main entrance to Volkswagen Group Africa’s manufacturing plant in Kariega, formerly Uitenhage. Opened in March 2004, the AutoPavilion...
One highlight of our stay in Gqeberha was visiting the St Croix Motor Museum and meeting its passionate owner and curator, Eben de Vos, a true petrolhead who has devoted decades to collecting, preserving, and celebrating South Africa’s automotive heritage. His collection also honours Port...
This was our second visit to the South African Air Force Museum, this time to its Gqeberha branch on the southern side of Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport (formerly Port Elizabeth Airport). A dedicated team of volunteers and the Friends of the SAAF Museum, under the curatorship...
We spent two nights in Gqeberha, officially renamed from Port Elizabeth in 2021, a major coastal city in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. Known as the “Friendly City” and sometimes the “Windy City”, it combines attractive seaside suburbs, major...
Addo Elephant National Park is South Africa’s third-largest national park, about an hour’s drive northeast of Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) in the Eastern Cape. It is famous as the only conservation area in the world that protects the “Big 7″—the traditional...
After our unpleasant encounter with traffic officers who seemed more interested in money than anything else, we were no longer in the mood for sightseeing. Nevertheless, we hit the road and continued from Port Alfred to Addo Elephant National Park, with an overnight stop near Kenton-on...