Jimmy and JP, barman extrodinaire at Nelspruit backpackers

July 27th 2008
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to land in Johannesburg. Local time is 8:45am and ground temperature is seven degrees celsius..." What?!! Seven degrees celsius!!! Coming from almost 40 degree heat in Delhi, it was a shock to step off the plane only to be hit with a gust of icy wind. For the next day and a half, we froze to death in Johannesburg even whilst wearing 6 layers of clothing in t ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more

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Sharon and Scott

Born to travel

Scott and I have always been travellers at heart. We first met on the beach in Spain in 1995 and had what we thought was "just a holiday romance". We met again briefly a year later in Salzburg, Austria and then a few years later in Hawaii. At the time, I was working in Japan, and Scott was back in California after his two years in Barcelona, Spain. Together, we have left it all behind to backpack around the world, not once, not twice, but three times. Travel really is addictive! Each time, we'd quit our jobs, put our meager belongings into storage or sell what was too big to store, leave o... full info

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