The Best of Backpacking in Southern Africa

Introduction SA Backpacker Links offers you, the intrepid traveller, an opportunity to find a cheap hostel or backpacker lodge. Organise a safari or tour and arrange transport - be it a rental car or on the legendary Baz Bus. We cover hostels and backpackers in South Africa as well as those in Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Zambia.
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Backpacker Hostels in Southern Africa offer a wide range of facilities including dormitory, single, double, en-suite double and family rooms. Whether you stay in awesome Cape Town or travel within the surreal tranquillity of the rural Free State, come to South Africa and experience the best that our backpacking hostels have to offer. If you are in search of 'real' or rural Africa then plan to spend more time on The Wild Coast, Zululand, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Mozambique or Zambia.The Kruger National Park is where you will find wild Africa. Cape Town is highly regarded as a 'not to be missed' highlight as is the Garden Route and multi-cultural Durban. As a Traveller your most likely point of entry into Southern Africa would be Johannesburg. Johannesburg or 'Jozi' is the incongruous capital of Africa and offers valuable insights into sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa. Don't miss it!

The Web SA Backpacker Links

Top 5 Destinations   Top 5 Hostels Cape Town Hostels Garden Route Hostels Eastern Cape Hostels Durban Hostels Wild Coast Hostels   The Backpack & Africa Travel Centre - Cape Town Semonkong Lodge and Pony Trekking - Lesotho Funky Monkey Backpackers - Nelspruit Ashanti Backpackers Hostel - Cape Town Khotso Horse Trails - Drakensberg Top 5 Tours   Top 5 General Pages Kruger Flexi Tours Drakensberg Adventures Easy Rider Wine Tours Cape-Xtreme Bok Bus Garden Route Tours   Hostels - find information on Hostels Tours - find a tour company Free Book - download or get a free guide book Volunteering - find a volunteering organisation photos - photo gallery of Southern Africa These pages are chosen according to website user popularity - not my opinions...

How www.sabackpackers.za.net is organised

The South African Backpackers website is arranged into five main sections

1. Hostels - from this page you can find out information about backpacker hostels in Southern Africa. There is also a complete list of all the hostels listed on the SA Backpacker Links website.
2. Tours - the tour page has a complete listing of the tour and safari companies listed on SA Backpacker Links website
3. Transport - the transport page has general information about getting around South Africa and listings of all the transport providers listed on the SA Backpacker Links website
4. Volunteering - This is a new section to the website. At the moment there are only two listed companies that offer volunteering products in South Africa
5. Learn English - This is also a new section to the website and contains a basic listing to some of the major language schools in South Africa

Whats New on www.sabackpackers.za.net?

Kruger View Backpackers

Abstract: SPECTACULAR VIEWS OF KRUGER NATIONAL PARK

Description:

Come and stay with us and enjoy a relaxed environment, with open plan living areas and a great garden. At your leisure cool down in the swimming pool. Wrap up your day with a delicious barbecue braai, while listening to the sounds of Africa... READ MORE

Acorn Cottage

Abstract: UNIQUE ONE-TO-ONE HOMESTAY PROGRAMME

Description:

Learn English in your teacher’s Home in the shortest possible time, whatever your starting level, beginner to advanced. You can live full-board in the home of your fully-qualified foreign language tutor, receiving 4 hours per day (20 hours per week) of language tuition... READ MORE

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Backpacking South Africa

Alternative Route has been busy out on the web designing and releasing a new management site for Alternative Route clients. Backpacker Information is a dual site that showcases the work done under the "Mkoya Travel Marketing" banner and also allows Alternative Route clients to upload and modify information for their adverts in the Alternative Route Travel Guide. Of course travellers can also visit the site and make use of the Travel Guide. Also out on the web the Backpacking South Africa site has been updated using the Moola Magic website as a base. Unfortunately the site is beyond our control now so there are some things we would have done differently regarding the moving of the site (301 redirects etc...). All in all though the site is a huge improvement over what was there before. I am interested to see how the search engines and the viewing public take to the site. The design intention was to keep everything quick, easy and smooth. We are busy with the design and layout for the next edition of Alternative Route Backpackers Guide which will be released and distributed in December and the very early part of January. For the first time we will be coming out with one edition a year and will be printing +-15 000 more books.

Unexplained traffic

For some reason Google has favoured the Alternative Route sister site South African Backpackers and the traffic on the site has quadrupled in the last two weeks. Why this has happened is a mystery to me. SA Backpackers was the first site I built in 2001 and in the beginning of Alternative Route SA Backpackers provided all the website traffic.

1. 05 November 2007 - Backpacking South Africa
2. 26 August 2007 - Public Transport In South Africa
3. 12 August 2007 - Whales In False Bay
4. 09 July 2007 - 77 dead dogs, 3 dead cats, 1 dead cow, 1 dead goat but the sheep were lucky
5. 05 May 2007 - Lesotho

  SA Backpackers videos from YouTube