Tamlyn Ryan is the founder of Tamlyn Amber Wanderlust, a travel writing and photography blog. At this stage it focuses on Tamlyn’s adventures in and around Cape Town and the Western Cape. What originally started out as a Journalism assignment at university, soon became a place for her to share her favourite travel adventures, tips […]
Lia Marus, founder of Memoirs of a South African Freelancer, is an editor and writer. Her blog showcases her travels and experiences in life, as well as her thoughts on copywriting and editing – which is what she does for a living. She runs her own content creation agency and spends her days creating articles for clients. […]
While you may very well take a flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town, you also have an alternative: travel with class and elegance and treat yourself to a unique experience. Today, our daily life very often resembles a race against the clock: Imagine finally being able to take the time and relive the golden age […]
Who has never wanted to play explorers, to cut all ties from daily routine to relax for a week in the middle of wild Africa? My partner and I, real nature-lovers, decided to live this authentic experience. We went to the Explorers Camp Selinda, in Botswana, which is probably the wildest camp in Southern Africa. […]
You love travelling and discovering new destinations? Are you curious about exploration and love nature and the wilderness? Welcome to Southern Africa. The only glitch to your travel plans is that you have children and many top range accommodations do not accept them. No need to worry, the combination of a wonderful trip with your entire […]
Positioned within Botswana’s Okavango Delta, adjacent to Moremi Game Reserve and Chobe National Park, Khwai Private Reserve is truly where the wild things are, with up to 50 different species being sighted on particularly productive game drives, but that hasn’t always been the case… KPR (as it’s affectionately known by those whose hearts it has […]
This month, I’m writing you from Johannesburg where I discovered some markets that are definitely worth a visit. Joburg is full of surprising places, original and offbeat concepts. Follow me on my urban stroll… BRYANSTON ORGANIC MARKET On Thursday, I asked the receptionist of my hotel to recommend a nice and pleasant place for brunch. […]
Welcome back to our XO series ‘Meet & Greet’ where you get to know the staff member you’ve chatted to or the one who’s been at end five month long email conversation. This episode we meet our wonderful Content Designer, Gugulethu Ntombela.
Bays like Sodwana, Kosi, Rocktail and St. Lucia Town have always beckoned me. I’m not sure if it’s their seclusion, their wild beauty or the burgeoning eco systems of this land that held such appeal for me but when I finally got to visit with Vaughan and my son Caleb, I couldn’t be more excited. […]
As XOnians, we took a trip to Zeitz MOCAA and had a blast. Zeitz MOCAA is located in Green Point, Cape Town and is a public not-for-profit contemporary art museum which collects, preserves, researches, and exhibits twenty-first century art from Africa and its Diaspora. We wandered through the halls of the museum, overwhelmed by the beauty […]
