Collection · 4 stories

Beyond the Safari

Beaches, cities and vineyards to add before or after the bush.

Publisher Wildside Expeditions
Updated 11 Oct

Beyond the Safari

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1
A Stone Town street of old buildings with wooden balconies and craft shops
DestinationZanzibar City
7 min
4.0 out of 5

Stone Town and the Spice Coast of Zanzibar

Zanzibar is the natural way to end a Tanzanian safari. Start in Stone Town, a maze of coral-stone lanes where Swahili, Arab, Indian and European histories meet.
Publisher Wildside Expeditions
2
Table Mountain and Lion's Head across Table Bay from the beach at Blouberg, with people in the surf
DestinationCape Town
9 min
3.3 out of 5

Cape Town and the Winelands

Cape Town is our favourite way to begin or end a southern African safari. Four days for the mountain, the peninsula and the winelands of Stellenbosch and Franschhoek.
Publisher Wildside Expeditions
3
Rows of vines in a Franschhoek vineyard with mountains behind
RestaurantFranschhoek
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The Vine Room, Franschhoek

Our favourite lunch stop in the Franschhoek valley: seasonal Cape cooking, a terrace above the vineyards and a wine list that leans local.
Publisher Wildside Expeditions
4
African penguins among granite boulders at Boulders Beach, Simon's Town
ActivitySimon's Town
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Meeting the Penguins of Boulders Beach

A colony of endangered African penguins lives among the granite boulders of Simon's Town. How to visit respectfully, and why their numbers are falling.
Publisher Wildside Expeditions

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