Unexpected emotional depth in South Africa

I thought I was going to South Africa for beaches, food, and Kruger National Park. I got all of those things. What I didn't expect was how emotionally affecting the trip would be. The history — particularly around Johannesburg — hit in ways that good travel sometimes does.

Table Mountain and Cape Peninsula was the moment that crystallised it. Standing there, eating biltong I'd bought from a street vendor, something clicked about why travel matters. 19 days and I came home genuinely changed. Some places do that to you.