Alternative Route Backpacker Hostel guide to South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and Victoria Falls

Go to www.alternativeroute.net home page Find a hostel or backpacker lodge in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe or Namibia Find a Tour or Safari in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe or Namibia Find Transport around Southern Africa. Including car hire, Baz Bus or buy back deals Volunteer in Southern Africa and do some good... Learn English in an English speaking country About the Alternative Route travel guide A little lost. Try the site map for www.alternativeroute.net

Alternative Route Backpacker Hostel guide including Cape Town and Johannesburg

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The Best of Backpacking in Southern Africa

Introduction

The Alternative Route Backpacker Hostel Guide 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!

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How www.alternativeroute.net is organised

The Alternative Route 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 Alternative Route website.
  2. Tours - the tour page has a complete listing of the tour and safari companies listed on the Alternative Route website
  3. Transport - the transport page has general information about getting around South Africa and listings of all the transport providers listed on the Alternative Route 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

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Afrique Du Sud Backpackers Website

Afrique Du Sud backpackers has a new website. After many years of using the free hosting service offered by Mweb, Afrique Du Sud Backpackers has taken the plunge and registered their own domain. I did the site update for them using a template from Styleshout...

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  3. 05 November 2007 - Backpacking South Africa
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