The Best Road Trip Explained

So, you have not done anything romantic in a while, and you are still getting major side-eye for the crushingly average Valentine’s Day gift. It is time for damage control, and time to surprise your other half with a weekend getaway. You are in luck, May has a few public holidays that you can maximize on, to take your other (perhaps better) half for a long weekend treat. Avukile Mabombo, Group Marketing Manager for Protea Hotels by Marriott® and African Pride Hotels has put together a list to give you some coupledestination-inspiration, adding “Long weekends are the perfect opportunities to reconnect. Do things you know your partner will appreciate, and your long weekend could turn into a strong weekend for you and your loved one”.

Let us start with Johannesburg. Magaliesburg is just about an hour and a half away from the city, and offers plenty of romantic opportunities. Book a romantic hot air balloon experience that gives you unparalleled views of 48,000 hectares of wild countryside. You can also see up to 40 species of game on this trip, all from a birds eye view! In Magaliesburg, you are also very close to the Cradle of Humankind, thought to be the birthplace of the human