History Archives | Pulse Africa https://pulseafrica.com/category/experiences/history/ Discovering Africa's Best Wed, 01 Dec 2021 08:48:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://pulseafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-Pulse-Arica-Favicon-32x32.gif History Archives | Pulse Africa https://pulseafrica.com/category/experiences/history/ 32 32 Battlefield tours – 1869 Anglo Zulu Battles https://pulseafrica.com/2018/02/01/battlefields-tour/ https://pulseafrica.com/2018/02/01/battlefields-tour/#respond Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:01:34 +0000 http://pulseafrica.com/?p=6135 Friends from Zambia were planning on a short visit to South Africa and suggested we had a weekend somewhere. Neither myself nor my friend are especially interested in history but our husbands are so we found ourselves at Fugitives Drift Lodge in Natal. Fugitives was built 25 years ago by David and Nicky Rattray . […]

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]]> https://pulseafrica.com/2018/02/01/battlefields-tour/feed/ 0 Climbing Mount Sinai https://pulseafrica.com/2017/08/02/climbing-mount-sinai/ https://pulseafrica.com/2017/08/02/climbing-mount-sinai/#respond Wed, 02 Aug 2017 09:58:47 +0000 http://pulseafrica.smartprofile.co.za/?p=5612 I guess, at some stage, most of us expect to tick Egypt off our bucket list of “travel destinations” worth a visit. The ancient land of pyramids and temples, Nile cruises and Arab markets most certainly tossed up a number of surprises. The warm & engaging people with their great sense of humour, the wide […]

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]]> https://pulseafrica.com/2017/08/02/climbing-mount-sinai/feed/ 0 Ethiopia – A Parable Come To Life https://pulseafrica.com/2015/06/04/ethiopia/ https://pulseafrica.com/2015/06/04/ethiopia/#respond Thu, 04 Jun 2015 08:39:48 +0000 http://pulseafrica.com/?p=723 During their recent trip to Ethiopia James Griswold and Trudy Jensen experienced a rather unique set of challenges that some have come to expect of the roads in deepest Africa. “Wherever we drove in Ethiopia, we found ourselves sharing the road with people and animals – cattle, sheep, mules, and goats. Everyone always walked down […]

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]]> https://pulseafrica.com/2015/06/04/ethiopia/feed/ 0 Three Trees at Spionkop https://pulseafrica.com/2015/04/13/three-trees-at-spioenkop/ https://pulseafrica.com/2015/04/13/three-trees-at-spioenkop/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2015 06:55:56 +0000 http://pulseafrica.com.dedi780.jnb1.host-h.net/?p=120 When I was younger we used to hurl insults to the Afrikaans kids and they to us. Insults of rooinek and soutpiel were vollied with cries of crunchie and dutchman. After that we used to settle down to the serious business of riding our bikes, trekking through the veld and playing in the drains – […]

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