Travel Tip: Avoid The South African School Holidays
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012Occasionally we find that it can be difficult to get accommodation in some parts of South Africa during the South African School holidays….after all, it is not only visitors from overseas who want to visit Kruger, Durban or the Garden Route!
Given this, we thought it might be useful for people from other countries to know when the South African School holidays will fall in 2012. We realise that sometimes it will be unavoidable to travel at these times, however it might be worth keeping in mind just in case you do have some flexability on your dates. For example, whilst 23 June to 15 July is holiday time across SA and it is very likely that every SANParks camp in Kruger is already fully booked, things will be a lot quieter from 16th July t0 28th September when the kids are back at school.
2012 SA School Holidays are:
- 29 March – 10 April 2012
- 23 June – 15 July 2012
- 29 September – 7 October 2012
- 8 December – 7 January 2013
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The first Southern Right whale has been spotted in Walker Bay at Hermanus, so this is now officially the start of the whale watching season !
Following an unfortunate accidental fire in July of this year, which all but completely destroyed the prestigious Ivory Suite at
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