Retrace Andrew's Journey
Map by Roy Wilhelm/National Geographic
Coast to Coast
Relive the adventures of Nat Geo's Digital Nomad (@WheresAndrew), who traveled to South Africa to explore the coastal cities of Cape Town and Durban. Along the way, Andrew kayaked around the Cape of Good Hope, photographed the colorful buildings in Cape Town's Bo-Kaap neighborhood, hiked Lion's Head mountain, met Mahatma Gandhi's granddaughters, and learned how to speak Zulu in Durban.
Andrew's Most Popular Posts
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Back to the Cape
Welcome to Cape Town ... again. I’m back! So welcome back to this colorful seaside port that I only just recently came to know and which I’ve been desperately missing ever since I left ...
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Beautiful Bo-Kaap
Pink, yellow, green ... orange, red, purple, pink, white, mustard, turquoise. My mind reads each new color my eyes encounter, this wonderful wall of bright stripes along the street ...
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Cape Town Hello
Hello! Goeie Dag! Molo Kunjani! Welcome to beautiful Cape Town, where I’ve landed my feet for a good little while. From the moment I stepped off my ship and ventured into this city by the sea ...
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My Cape Town Favorites
Travel is such a personal thing: one man’s art museum is another man’s prison. Personally, I can feel highly entertained just browsing in a bookstore (though if you want to kill me with boredom ...
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The Great Hottentot Tea Party
I offer my sweat as a gift to the earth. Jethro tells me that my sweat is enough—the important thing is to always give back. If we take something, we must also give. ...
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Good Hope
Six hundred and fifty shipwrecks lie off the Cape of Good Hope. I prayed that we would not make it six hundred and fifty-one. I had already read enough to be good and scared ...
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Cape Town Street Art
Show me your graffiti and you’ve shown me your city. What people scrawl on the walls of the place they live says more about that place than any guidebook. That’s why I love good graffiti ...
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A Little Poison
The slower you travel, the more you see. That is why walking is the best way to know a place. And when the place is as magnificent and gigantic (almost 4 miles long) as Noordhoek Beach ...
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Gandhi's Granddaughters
“Most people don’t know that Mahatma Gandhi spent his most important years in South Africa, right here in Durban,” she tells me with a quivering voice. ...
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Eating Bunnies
I’ve only eaten one bunny so far, but I am sure to devour at least one more before I leave. Bunnies are delicious. Bunny chow (or “a bunny”) is classic Durban cuisine ...
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