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Archived entries for  Garden Route

Spanning from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, the Garden Route is a beautifully scenic region, from the semi-desert of the Karoo and forests of Tsitsikamma to pretty seaside towns and white sandy beaches. And it’s great for families! Visit the Garden Route section on our website.

Onwards and Eastwards

Schoone Oordt Country House

  This is the second instalment of Niki’s recent road trip… After our stay in Franschhoek, we continued over the mountains and through the Franschhoek pass towards Robertson and onto Swellendam near the well-known Route 62. We stayed at a gorgeous little hotel called Schoone Oordt. What a beautiful place!! It is run brilliantly by [...]

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Our Top 10 Beaches in South Africa

Best beaches in Cape Town

Our Top 10 South African Beach Breaks As we slip from the chilly clutches of winter into the ample bosom of the South African summer. And as you slip from your not-so Indian summer into the dark and despair of a Northern Hemisphere winter, we thought it might be a good time to remind you [...]

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Win A Luxury Safari!!!

Win With Rhino Africa

  How about three nights at Cape Town’s most exclusive boutique hotel, MannaBay, followed by two nights at the incredible Londolozi Private Game Reserve, including air transfers! What’s that I hear you say? There must be some catch. But there isn’t! All you have to do is become a fan of (like) Rhino Africa on [...]

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Focus on Samara

Samara Private Game Reserve

  At Rhino Africa we’re constantly on the lookout for fantastic new places and new experiences to bring to our clients. Samara is one such place. One of the least visited, but most breathtaking provinces in South Africa is the Eastern Cape. Samara has created a unique wilderness experience in a heart-stoppingly beautiful  amphitheatre of [...]

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Behind the lens – Samantha Myburgh

Behind the lens - Samantha Myburgh

Samantha Myburgh comes from Port Elizabeth, South Africa’s windy city. She has quite a history and has worked in the hospitality industry in both London and Dubai. She started off by working for the famous Shamwari Group – a selection of five-star lodges in the Eastern Cape,  before she moved onto Tsala Treetop Lodge, near Plettenberg Bay. [...]

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Behind the lens – Craig Harding

Behind the lens - Craig Harding

Craig Harding is the copywriter and general go-to guy at Rhino Africa. Hailing from Nelspruit in the low-veld of South Africa. He only took up a camera 7 months ago but he seems to be getting the hang of it. You will most likely see examples of Craig’s photography all over our blog, website and in [...]

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Behind the lens – David Ryan

Behind the lens - David Ryan

Our fearless/peerless leader loves taking photographs! When David isn’t ensuring that Rhino Africa runs smoothly, he will most likely be found dreaming up a new venture, traveling through Africa or behind his camera. Having traveled extensively throughout Africa many of the images on the Rhino Africa website hail from his well organized image library!

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Behind the lens – Billy Hare

Behind the Lense - Billy Hare

At Rhino Africa we have always been fortunate enough to have several consultants who are not only passionate about this continent and bringing visitors to our shores, but also who show a keen interest in Photography. In fact much of the imagery seen throughout our website comes from our consultants and their cameras. So we [...]

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Happy Hogs

Hog Hollow

  With only two more sleep sleeps until the Mother of all Cities hums to the vuvuzela & beat of the African drum, you might want to escape the madness and take a walk on less wild side. Hog Hollow is a magnificent lodge set on the edge of an indigenous forest in a private [...]

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An Education on the Garden Route – Day Three and Four

Garden Route day 3 and 4

When a group of people all wake up with a hangover handed down from the nastiest of the gods then normally the day can only begin badly. However at Trogon House and Forest Spa, this is not how it happened, we awoke to a beautiful view out over the forest and a delicious breakfast and [...]

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An Education on the Garden Route – Day Two

garden rout education day 2

  Awake and refreshed after a lovely evening at Rosenhof we said our goodbyes, left Oudtshoorn behind and headed toward the town of George passing through some of the most spectacular Mountains in the region. So spectacular that rumor has it the town planners in George are campaigning to build a cable car up to [...]

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An Education on the Garden Route – Day One

Garden Route education day 1

  On Thursday last week eight excited Rhino Africans jumped aboard the Rhino Tripping shuttle in the early morning and drove out of our glorious city. Our destination the magnificent Garden Route, we headed out along the N1 towards our first stop the sleepy and picturesque town of Robertson. Known mostly for its wine farms [...]

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