The Porfolio Collection Travel Blog

A warm congratulations to adventurer (and financial analyst) Hylton James whose recent arrival at the South Pole, via a gruelling trek across the world’s largest ice cap, made him the first South African to reach both the North and South Poles in skiing expeditions.

On the day back in November last year that the American President was voted into office, the name Barack Obama was on everyone's lips. But what was on Obama's lips?

Local conservationists have made headlines around the world this week with the tagging of a world record Zambezi (aka Bull) shark in the Breede River.

We were all sad when the young humpback whale recently rescued by a group of divers near Llandudno didn’t make after all, but another whale tale seems to have had a happier ending earlier this week.

So 2009, the very year that the Dakar Rally is not held in Africa (it was moved to South America for security reasons, from its traditional North West Africa location) is the same year an African wins the race!

Got itchy feet and (miraculously) money to travel this year? The world’s a big place – and you’re spoiled for choice. However, if you (like us) are lucky enough to call SA home, The New York Times is telling you to stay right where you are!