by Sarah Duff | Jun 13, 2013 | Turkey
After enthusiastically planning a first-time trip to Turkey for months, my boyfriend Joe and I arrived in Istanbul two weeks ago and immersed ourselves in this amazing city. On our second day there, we unwittingly became part of the protests against the building of a...
by Sarah Duff | May 20, 2013 | Turkey
I’m off in just over a week to a country I’ve never been to before and I couldn’t be more excited. I decided to plan an early-summer trip to Turkey for three reasons: 1. There are cheap flights from Cape Town (R6000 return on Turkish Airlines, direct...
by Sarah Duff | May 6, 2013 | desert, Festivals, Karoo
The sun was slowly setting over the vast Karoo horizon, turning the sky from apricot-orange to fuschia-purple as I danced with thousands of costumed people to music streaming from a purple bus and a mobile pirate ship. A massive gyrating skeleton towered over us while...
by Sarah Duff | Apr 23, 2013 | Festivals
Last year I went to my first AfrikaBurn, South Africa’s version of the Burning Man festival, for the first time and I had my mind blown. It was a fantastically surreal experience: an town of art and performance that sprung up in days in the middle of the desert...
by Sarah Duff | Apr 12, 2013 | desert, Namibia, photo blog
Namibia is one of my favourite countries. I haven’t been for two years now and I’m starting to feel an intense longing for its open spaces, giant night skies, seas of red sand dunes, apple pie bakery in the middle of nowhere, desert horses, incongruous...
