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Six South African Travel Creators You Need To Be Following

Six South African Travel Creators You Need To Be Following

South Africa is home to a vibrant community of travel creators who beautifully capture the country’s diverse landscapes, rich cultures, and unique experiences through their creative lenses. As Tourism Month begins, last year’s winner of the DStv Content Creator Awards and this year’s nominees in the Travel and Lifestyle category are the ideal influencers to follow for anyone seeking inspiration for their next adventure. 

With their distinctive perspectives, these creators offer a fresh take on exploring South Africa, showcasing hidden gems, popular destinations, and unforgettable experiences waiting to be discovered.

Iana Strydom

Iana Strydom is the winner of the Travel & Lifestyle Award at the 2023 DStv Content Creator Awards. Known for her passion for travel, Iana’s mission is to inspire people to live intentionally and explore the wonders of our world. Her content ranges from thrilling hiking adventures in the Drakensberg to exploring unique stays like a Boeing airplane in Hoedspruit. As a South African-born adventurer, she captures breathtaking landscapes and shares stories that encourage others to experience the joy of being in nature.

Centtwinz Travel

The Centtwinz are travel creators making waves with their engaging content that showcases hidden gems and popular destinations across South Africa. Their videos are filled with vibrant energy and enthusiasm, drawing viewers into their adventures and highlighting the rich culture and natural beauty of the country.

Chris Rogers

Chris Rogers is a filmmaker and travel creator who combines his passion for storytelling with his love for adventure. Known for his stunning cinematography and creative editing, Chris captures extraordinary travel moments that leave viewers in awe. With a deep passion for Cape Town and the ocean, this creator seamlessly blends his love for sports and the city into his content, amassing a substantial following along the way. From breathtaking coastal routes to adrenaline-pumping activities, his posts offer a diverse range of visual experiences that capture the spirit of adventure and the beauty of Cape Town’s landscapes.

Jeandre Martin Strydom

As the Head of Production for “The Tryst,” Jeandre Martin Strydom has made a mark in the content creation space. He partnered with Mark Sham to create the popular “Like A Tourist” YouTube series, which takes viewers on a journey to explore South Africa’s well-known and lesser-known attractions. His unique approach to showcasing local tourism has helped to broaden the scope of South African travel content.

Mzwandile & Siza Ndlovu

This adventurous couple is known for sharing their incredible travel experiences around South Africa and beyond. Mzwandile and Siza have a passion for discovering new places, and their content often highlights romantic getaways, scenic road trips, and unique cultural experiences. From staying in a cozy igloo in Finland to uncovering the magic of Morocco and exploring hidden gems across South Africa, Mzwandile and Siza’s content is visually captivating, deeply inspiring, and genuinely engaging. Their travel adventures offer a unique blend of global escapades and local discoveries, creating a sense of connection with their audience through every experience they share.

Simóne and Vernon 

Simóne and Vernon are travel creators who capture the essence of their journeys through compelling content that includes vibrant photography and authentic travel stories. As owners of Versi Creative, a photography and videography studio based in Cape Town, Simóne and Vernon have mastered the art of crafting captivating content that draws viewers in. Their work often highlights lesser-known destinations and brings a fresh perspective to both popular tourist spots and hidden gems. With visually stunning and engaging posts, they capture the imagination of those who love to explore, making their page the go-to for anyone feeling the wanderlust and seeking inspiration for their next adventure.

This year, LIFT Airlines is adding an exciting incentive for the winner of the Travel & Lifestyle category at the 2024 DStv Content Creator Awards. The winner will receive R10,000 in their LIFT Wallet, providing them with the opportunity to explore more of South Africa’s diverse and breathtaking destinations. With this prize, LIFT aims to encourage the spirit of adventure and discovery, enabling the winner to use their platform to showcase the beauty and richness of the country. This collaboration highlights LIFT’s commitment to supporting local creators and promoting tourism within South Africa, ensuring that the stories of our unique landscapes and vibrant cultures reach even more audiences.

These six creators offer a diverse range of travel experiences, showcasing South Africa’s beauty and inspiring viewers to explore more of what the country has to offer. Whether you’re planning a local getaway or dreaming of your next big adventure, these travel influencers are sure to provide plenty of inspiration.

The 2024 DStv Content Creator Awards take place on Saturday 12 October in Johannesburg. Tickets for this year’s extravaganza are on sale at https://qkt.io/B6HULK. For more information on the DStv Content Creator Awards, visit www.contentcreatorawards.co.za.

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Actually, Home Food and Travel offers a lot more than just reviews of accommodation, restaurants, spas and adventure activities.  We also visit great destinations, receive advice from interior designers and stop to smell the roses and taste the coffee.

Our team of journalists are seasoned travels and love visiting the myriad of exciting places around South Africa.  Whether it is off the beaten track or in the heart of the top attractions of the country, we’ll be there,

Home Food and Travel advice on finding the right accommodation

So what is the right accommodation?  Well more often than not, it’s your travel budget that dictates the type of accommodation that you choose. 

Expensive is not always better.  Our team at Home Food and Travel will tell you that they have camped in areas with limited ablutions and had a wonderful holiday.  They have also spent a night in a five star hotel only to be disappointed because their expectations exceeded the experience.

The reason for your travels will also affect your choice.  A business trip requires different amenities to a beach holiday. 

Our articles, reviews and experiences can certainly help you make your decision.

Restaurants with a good mix of service, food and ambiance

To my mind a great restaurant offers three things – excellent service, great food and a wonderful ambiance.  Of these, service is the most important. 

No matter that the food is delicious and the setting delightful, poor service can ruin the occasion.  However, great service combined with mediocre meal and a plane jane restaurant can still be a pleasant night out.

We’ve eaten in restaurants that are really dirty but with incredible food and couldn’t help but give a rave review.  We’ve also hardly noticed what we ate because the setting was just amazing.

However, the best restaurants come with the best of service, food and ambiance.

Spas are the ultimate relaxation aid

How do you know when you have had a great spa experience?  The answer, of course, is when you doze off on the treatment table. 

Well that’s our theory anyway.  It also doesn’t take a grand location with enormous facilities for a spa to be really good

A small, personal spa that is owner run can result in the best massage you have ever experienced.  However, the grand spas in five star hotels offer unsurpassed facilities in an environment that just makes the stress in your shoulders and neck melt away before you even finish checking in.

Adventure!

You don’t have to be an adrenaline junky to enjoy an exciting experience.  In fact, what are commonly termed adventure activities usually have incredibly high safety standards and unblemished safety records.

Ziplining, bungy jumping and shark cage diving are all very safe.  It’s just that our mind tells us we are craaazzzzyyyy to be doing this.

On the road to great places of accommodation, restaurants, spas and adventure activities

If you’re driving, be safe and make use of all the wonderful farm stalls that populate South Africa’s open roads.

If you overhear somebody asking a lot of questions or see someone taking photos of empty bedrooms chances are it’s one of our Home Food and Travel team members.

We’re out looking or those great places of accommodation, restaurants, spas and adventure activities.

See you on the road!

 

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About the Publisher, Graeme Lund

The tourism industry has been my bread and butter for most of my life.  It started with my incorporating a tour company in 1995 just as South Africa was opening to international tourism. I was the first qualified field guide in the Eastern Cape and later became the approved tour guide trainer for the region.  At various times I have owned a tourist information office, an advertising agency specializing in marketing tourism businesses,  sat on the board of directors of various tourism organisations and a been a publisher of travel magazines and websites.

Southern Africa is my home and the diversity of cultures,  scenery and fauna and flora are what make it so special.  I have a passion for exploring and have done so by driving, hiking, strolling, cycling, boating, sailing, diving and flying and know that their is still so much more to see.  

Along the way their are so many amazing places to stay and to eat and they are an integral part of what makes this such a special place. These private and public tourism enterprises play a huge part in ensuring that our natural environment remains intact.

I am a fervent conservationist.  I have served on the Board of Trustees of Bayworld and am currently a director of Bay Action Network Alliance. I believe that tourism is one of the few effective ways of protecting a dwindling natural heritage in the face of overpopulation and irresponsible and selfish exploitation of natural resources. Sadly conservation for conservation sake is as out of date as fax machines and typewriters.  Animals and conservation areas must make more money from tourism than they can from exploitation to ensure their long term survival.  It is for this reason that I love working with responsible tourism organizations around Southern Africa.

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