Our next stop was the Outeniqua Transport Museum in George, part of the Transnet Heritage Foundation collection and one of the most interesting places to explore South Africa’s railway heritage. Housed in a historic locomotive shed dating back to 1932, the museum brings together an...
Our next stop was The Motorcycle Room in Knysna, a fascinating museum located on the top floor of The Parking Shed in Thesen Harbour Town on Thesen Island. It houses a private collection of around 150 motorcycles, ranging from classic road bikes and vintage enduros to motocross machines...
Our last lovely stop of the day was Seal Point Lighthouse, situated in Cape St. Francis, approximately a 90-minute drive from Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth). Overlooking the rugged Eastern Cape coastline, this historic lighthouse remains an active aid to maritime navigation. Today...
We made a short detour to Morija, the historic cultural heart of Lesotho, known as the country’s first mission station and an important centre of art, education and heritage. French Protestant missionaries from the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society established the settlement in...
Thaba Bosiu was just an overnight stop for us on our way to Semonkong. We were kindly allowed to park next to the village, near the restaurant where we had dinner. Thaba Bosiu is a historic sandstone plateau and one of the most important places in Lesotho, regarded as the spiritual and...
We drove our truck from Maliba Lodge with a local guide to visit Basotho villagers living in the surrounding mountains. The community is connected with the Maliba Community Trust, which supports local development through tourism, including regional health services, education programmes...
We finally received approval to visit Sandstone Estates, a working commercial farm in South Africa’s Eastern Free State and home to one of the world’s largest private collections of vintage agricultural machinery, railways, military vehicles, and transport history. Upon our...
Since we were already driving through the area, we stopped briefly at the Basotho Cultural Village, a living museum nestled beneath the spectacular sandstone mountains of Golden Gate Highlands National Park in South Africa’s Free State province. The village features an 18th-century-style...
As part of our Sani Pass trip, we visited Sekiring Village, often spelt Skeering by local tour operators. This living, traditional Basotho settlement lies roughly 7 kilometres beyond the Sani Pass border post, on Lesotho’s rugged high-altitude plateau at almost 2,900 metres above...
On our way to Underberg, we stopped at two culturally profound landmarks just a short distance apart in the greater Durban area: the Umhlatuzana Hindu Temple in Chatsworth and Mariannhill Monastery. Although they belong to different faiths, both places share remarkably similar stories of...