Maria Doering's Art and Adventure

On November 18th, the second to last weekend of our South Africa stay, our friend James Le Roux and his buddy Teddy took us for a drive down the wild coast which is one of their favourite places. It's about a two hour drive to Port Shepstone from whe...

After our St. Lucia adventure, Scott came to meet us there and together we drove north straight into Swaziland. We highly recommend driving there in daylight. The trip up took us much longer than expected and the last hour or so of driving was in the...

On October 25th, Deb, Brett and I left Hluhluwe Game Reserve and headed towards St. Lucia. Of course on route we had to stop at the Emdoneni Cat Project, one of my favourite places. When we left Hluhluwe it was about 28 degrees Celsius. When we arriv...

On October 23rd, Scott of course had to be back at work, so his parents Deb and Brett and I headed up to Hluhluwe Game Reserve for my second visit. To read about my first visit please click here.This time, we arrived without incident at the gate. In...

(View of Table mountain from our Air bnb.)On our second day in Cape Town we had again too many things planned.  First hiking Table Mountain and then a visit to the Ostrich Farm, unfortunately we had to cancel the Ostrich Farm visit as our t...

(Our Airbnb in Cape Town)On Thursday, October 19th, we flew to Cape town via Safair airlines. A fairly quick 2-hour flight had us arriving at the Airbnb late. The next morning my husband Scott and my in-laws Deb and Brett and I left early to head dow...

On October 14th, Scott managed to rent the only 4x4 vehicle that Avis has available in the Durban area and we headed out to drive up the Sani Pass. It's a notoriously difficult trek up the mountain, where famously cars with 4 wheel drive get tested t...