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📍Umgababa Adventures The newest of @greencorridors purpose projects, we are so excited that we get to be the first to try out this new spot. Offering hiking, mountain biking, canoeing, eco-education & even an overnight rural home stay, the venture is led locally by @thulas.luthuli whose passion and excitement for this project is tangible. 🥳Fun …
📍1000 Thrills, ISithumba, Ximba One of the many strengths of our country is it’s diversity. Our responsibility as people is to understand this diversity, to learn more about our cultural differences & similarities and, in doing so, open our minds to different perspectives and experiences. Meandering through the streets & valleys of ISithumba, and engaging …
📍1000 Thrills, ISithumba Situated in the Valley of 1000 Hills, iSithumba is a rural Zulu village offering a network of hiking trails, mountain bike tours and cultural walking tours. Turning up the intensity today, we took on the flagship Isithumba mountain hike. 🥳Fun factor: a tough (tough!), technical and thoroughly rewarding climb. 🏋🏾♀️Fitness level: intermediate …
📍Umgeni River Valley and KwaDabeka 📸 : @greencorridors for all the bird pics (because a phone camera just doesn’t cut it when it comes to capturing these magnificent creatures from far). Birdwatching – the practice of observing birds in their natural environment as a hobby. Another of those activities we always thought were for another …
📍eNanda Adventure Park, Iqadi We may have mentioned once or thrice that there’s loads to do eNanda. This week we have toured it, hiked it, cycled it, and to complete the Inanda experience as a last stop we paddled it. 🥳Fun factor: by the time we hit the water, we weren’t up for racing but …
📍eNanda Adventure Park, Iqadi Yup, we’re still eNanda & we love just how much adventure there is to be had here. Having hit the streets, toured museums and gone hiking, we decided the next obvious adventure should involve 2 wheels, good views and some speed 🚵🏾♀️ 🥳Fun factor: YES! Fun but also relaxed. We’re coming …
“To teach the brain to learn, the heart to understand and the hands to serve.” ~ JL DubeWe’ve discovered that a walking tour is a great way to learn history and culture while keeping active. Ohlange – “where nations come together”. This tour takes you through Inanda, home to Ohlange Institute which was founded …
📍Inanda Our adventure with @greencorridors continues 🤸🏾♂️ The Mahatma Gandhi Settlement, from where Gandhi lead his passive resistance movement is also home to the first printing press for the Indian Opinion and has been transformed into an excellently mapped out museum. We also hit the streets for a walking tour (of course 🦶🏾) to discover …
📍Inanda Best known for guided hikes and a magnificent waterfall, a walk through uMzinyathi Gorge is one way to free your mind and lift your spirit. Spending time in the Rasta caves while we learned more about their lifestyle was both novel and captivating. 🥳 Fun factor: stirring views, an invigorating hike, eye opening interactions …
After some “land training” yesterday we’re back to give you the low down on the last, and hardest, water sport we did @ballitoskipark – #goodtimes ! 🥳 Fun factor: initially frustrated at not being able to lift out of the water, it ended on the best kind of high when KC finally nailed it! The …