Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Snapshots of South Africa: Revisiting Autonomy

When we’ve done tourist things in Tanzania, we’ve worked mostly with tour guides because that mode is the norm in Tanzania’s national parks, museums, and historic sites.  We’ve certainly learned a lot from the guides we’ve worked with, but we’re used to more autonomy.
In South Africa, we rented a car (a TINY car, as it turned out) and were able to get off the beaten track a bit—sometimes a bit farther than we would have liked, given that South African roadways have been changing at a pace too fast for print and virtual mapmakers to keep up with!  Most nights, we stayed in “self-catering” cottages, and we enjoyed the chance to be anonymous and autonomous for a while.

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