Bela-Bela
HOW TripAdvisor lists accommodation rated by guests, but as much as we love peer reviews, they don’t offer a comparative voice – so how do we know No. 1 is really the best? Pippa de Bruyn, who has reviewed accommodation for 20 years for the likes of Frommer’s and The Telegraph, scours TripAdvisor and other online sites when researching a destination. For Bela-Bela, she created a longlist of 16 to inspect. The following made the cut.
WHAT I FOUND ABOUT ACCOMMODATION HERE
• Previously known as Warmbaths, Bela-Bela in Limpopo is an unprepossessing town with no attractions apart from the Forever Resort hot springs. This then is about the surrounding bushveld, and its proximity to Gauteng’s cities is remarkable: within two hours you’ve swapped traffic jams for dirt tracks, slowing down for a literal zebra crossing.
• As a region rather than a town, it is difficult to research, with long distances between destinations listed under Bela-Bela. (Follow your host’s directions
