South African Glamping

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October 6, 2010 by Jonsky

Below is your typical camping experience:

As novices to camping holidays our gear was pretty basic. We had a borrowed tent, two air mattresses, decent sleeping bags and a fold-out table and chairs. Our travel stove and gas lantern were about as luxurious as we got, and even then the gas ran out on our lantern about three bites into dinner the first evening.

Here’s glamping, South African Style:

Within hours the campsite filled with Landrover Defenders dangling jerry cans, seven-man tents the size of small houses and children so accustomed to camping that they have no problem hooking up the Cadac gas canister to the three plate stove while Mum peels the potatoes for dinner. One couple told us tales of camping across Zimbabwe where they peered from their rooftop tents as wild game walked beneath them. Their entire family is hooked on camping and all sixteen of them were pitched in the same area with a large circle of camping chairs in the middle for the evening bonfires.

It’s not the glamping I expected when I first saw the title of the article, one that involves a huge luxurious tent with comfy beds, expensive furniture and high tech camping kitchen but it’s glamping all the same. It’s probably the reason why camping is so popular in South Africa especially with so many wild and wonderful places to explore.

Read more at the Telegraph