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{Spa Day} Escape JHB & Visit Zau Spa
Want to escape from grey old Jozi for a day? Then take an hours drive to the Diamond town of Cullinan and you can relax in the tranquility that is Zau Spa, set against the backdrop of the Cullinan Dam. My sister and her boyfriend were raving about this place so I decided to third wheel and gatecrashed their appointment. As we walked in to the spa we were warmly greeted by the friendly, professional staff, who seated us outside and began to wash our feet, and then hand us robes and slippers to change into. Once we were in our robes we headed to the cozy and warm dining…
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Lifestyle, Travel
A First Timers Guide to The Kruger
I wrote a first Timers Guide to The Kruger blog post because it really is one of the most special places you will ever visit in your lifetime and it is right on your doorstep. In fact, from Joburg, the closest gate, Malelane is only four and a half hours away. That may be pretty obvious to regular Kruger goers, but I do think a lot of South Africans forget just how lucky we are to have such easy access to the park, considering that thousands of tourists from around the world, spend years saving to visit the Kruger, then take the long haul flights with stop-overs and endless road…
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Lifestyle, Travel
When is the best time to buy Airline tickets?
Is there REALLY a BEST TIME to buy Airline tickets? Travelstart says YES. There really is a science to buying air tickets at the best time. Have you ever noticed when searching for flights, that the first time you checked the price was cheaper, but now it’s gone up by a few hundred rands? Or that the tickets during a certain month shoot up inexplicably? Well, there really is a science to buying tickets and Travelstart* have figured out the formula for us all! In fact, Shaun and I used it last week Tuesday to book tickets to Zanzibar in September and it worked! EEEEEK! OK so let’s break down…
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Lifestyle
Stop Using Plastic Straws!
If there is one video you need to watch that will make stop using plastic straws indefinitely, it has got to be this one. It’s a disturbing footage of a sea turtle, with a stream of blood running down his face and straw lodged in his nose, while two researchers work to extract it. It is one of the saddest things you will watch on the internet and it makes me kind of hate to think I ever sipped a drink with a straw. Why do you need to say goodbye to plastic straws? Traditional plastic straws are one-time-use item and cannot be recycled, so they wind up in…
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Lifestyle, Travel
How not to be a Butt-head in the Kruger
As promised in my last Kruger article, I wanted to write a blog post about How Not To Be A Butt-head in the Kruger. There are a lot of regular Kruger goers, old-timers and veterans, who have been going to the park for years, who respect the rules and etiquette of the Kruger and who constantly have to deal with butt-heads who show no respect to the park and animals. Butt-heads everywhere in the Kruger What we have come to realise in our time visiting is that nobody reads or respects the rules they receive from SAN Parks when driving into the park. With that in mind, here are a…
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