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Where to slake your thirst in Jo’burg this weekend

By Paul Ash | 8 July 2010

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If you’re in Jo’burg for the cup final and you’re looking for decent bar where you can a) sink some good South African beer, b) eat some lekker South African food and c) ogle some pretty locals, look no further than the Times Explorer’s list of the 10 best bars in the City of Gold.

If you’re hungry, the Times Explorer Top 10 restaurant list will help direct your growling belly to somewhere outstanding.

These places are so good, Charlize and Paris are sure to hit at least one of them. We’ll let you know …

Welcome to Jo’burg, and may the best team win.

Times Explorer: Drive by shooting

By Paul Ash | 2 June 2010

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The last Times Explorer team has left the Wild Coast behind and tonight are in Hogsback, at the edge of the Amatola Mountains. Tomorrow they head for Bloemfontein and then Joburg and the end of the road.

Photographer Kevin Sutherland has been busy. Check out his slideshow and visit the TIMES EXPLORER to see the what the team have been up to.

PHOTO: The view from the Fisherman’s Tales bar at Coffee Bay on the Wild Coast, Eastern Cape.PICTURE: Kevin Sutherland

Times Explorer: A steam-heated encounter

By Paul Ash | 31 May 2010

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The Times Explorer got a rocket from a trainspotter and watched youths hunting field mice. You see the most amazing things in this country, if you travel slowly enough to look.

For more stories and pics, follow us on the TIMES EXPLORER.

PHOTO: The driver of Number 4074, peers from the locomotive cab at Donnybrook on Sunday May 30, 2010. PHOTO: Kevin Sutherland

Times Explorer: The road to SA’s “Colombia”

By Paul Ash | 30 May 2010

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A new Times Explorer team left Joburg yesterday for Durban. Their route will take them across the Mzimkulu River and into the deep and secret valleys of the Wild Coast. Read More…

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Hot Spots: Walking with cheetahs

By Paul Ash | 25 May 2010

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Times Explorer photographer Jackie Clausen took some awesome pictures of an early morning game walk with a trio of tame cheetahs at Tshukudu Game Lodge in the Lowveld.

See the TIMES EXPLORER for more great stories.

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Times Explorer: Stoned sheep and dead dogs – never a dull moment

By Paul Ash | 7 May 2010

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The Times Explorer team is racing south in their trusty Caravelle, backwards along the route Cecil John Rhodes forged to the north. As is usual on these journeys, things are never dull.

Times Explorer Power: Piet Retief, frogs and the road to home

By Paul Ash | 4 May 2010

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The Times Explorer team is heading for Jo’burg, having spent the last couple of days making their way from Piet Retief to the frogging town of Chrissiesmeer and Ermelo. Here’s what they saw on the way.

Esa Alexander took the pictures.

Times Explorer: A shot in the dark

By Paul Ash | 3 May 2010

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The Times Explorer team ambled across country to Piet Retief and on to Amsterdam to check out its nightlife and red-light district. Things, as they discovered, are never quite what they seem.

The photo shows Amsterdam on Sunday night. Esa Alexander took the pictures. For more stories and photos, see Times Explorer.

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Times Explorer: The hard road to Dundee

By Paul Ash | 1 May 2010

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The Times Explorer team have been moving west, from bush to battlefields. Here, where armies once tramped and spilled blood there are now only people doing the best they can to get by in a tough piece of country.

See Esa Alexander’s photos on Times Explorer.

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Times Explorer: Shots from the Road

By Paul Ash | 1 May 2010

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The Times Explorer team has been spending time with Hluhluwe’s finest people and animals. See Esa Alexander’s photos on Times Explorer. Read More…

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