Our travel bug "little umkhombo" wants to explore South Africa!

To all geocachers out there: Our travel bug "little umkhombo" (TB552KW) started his journey of a lifetime in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) in May 2013. In the meantime he travelled all over Germany, visited Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Switzerland, France and Rwanda before he finally arrived in South Africa. Please show him around the country and take him to the greatest geocaches! THX!

via geocaching.com

Western Cape: Africa’s first officially branded geocaching tour

update (09 July 2013): According to to a tweet from Wesgro, the geocaching tour will be launched in mid August 2013 in all 6 regions of the Western Cape.

Wesgro, the official Desitnation Marketing, Investment and Trade Promotion Agency for the Western Cape, will soon launch Africa’s first officially branded geocaching tour and competition. According to Nils Flaatten, CEO of Wesgro, the geocaching tour will be developed in partnership with official geocaching site, geocaching.com, and will include 16 caches hidden in different locations in Cape Town, the Winelands, the Karoo, West Coast, Overberg, the Garden Route and the Klein Karoo. Awesome! For more info, especially about the geocaching competition, listen to the interview with Nils Flaatten below!