Articles posted by Iga Motylska

Author: Iga Motylska

Iga Motylska is a Johannesburg-based freelance writer, photojournalist, sub-editor and blogger. She is published in numerous local and international publications, including: Forbes Africa, Forbes Woman Africa, Forbes Life Africa, CNBC Africa, Ventures Africa, Marie Claire, Sawubona, AA Traveller, Fastjet inflight magazine and Seoul Magazine among numerous others. Her editorial interests range from documenting the entrepreneurial spirit to women's and human rights issues, environmental affairs and of course travel writing.

Travel Books, Movies and Museums to take you there

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, now’s not the time to travel. So here’s a compilation of travel book, movies, museums and art galleries to take you there.

This post details various ways to find cheap flights, no matter where you’re flying from or to or your nationality, and includes a R750 ($50) discount on international flights and a R150 ($10) on domestic (South African) flights, thanks to my partnership with Online Travel…

Ever the gin-lover, I travelled all the way from Johannesburg to Mossel Bay to become an alchemist and learn how to make my own gin at the Inverroche Gin School at Café Gannet. This article features in the December issue of Juice Magazine. “I’m going…

If you’ve ever wondered where the rest of the world travels, whether it’s for leisure or business, the numbers are in. Each year Euromonitor International tracks arrivals in 400 global cities. It releases a list of the 100 most-visited cities (with stays of at least…

Updated on 28 Nov (8PM) – check new entries under each section: transportation, packaged deals, accommodation, and experiences and tours. I’ll continue to update this post as more travel deals are announced. It’s that time of year again, Black Friday and Cyber Monday Travel Deals…

I love travelling solo. (Here are some awesome destinations for solo female travellers.) Though there are certain destinations where I take comfort in travelling with a guide and fellow travellers, especially if it’s my first visit. I undertook my first group tour with other travellers,…

Fashion capital, coastal metropolis, Art Deco enclave, Bollywood epicentre, financial hub. No matter how you chose to describe it – Mumbai is anything but boring, especially when you only have 24 hours in which to explore India’s largest city. As we step off the train…

Claiming a sand bar island as your own, floating in the lukewarm cerulean waters of the Indian Ocean, and indulging in pastéis de nata, freshly-caught King Prawns drenched in garlic butter sauce, washed down with 2M beer are reasons enough to visit Mozambique’s seaside town…

During my fourth visit to France earlier this year, I visited the Haute Alps and Provence regions with a base in the country’s second largest city. Between Marseille’s history as France’s oldest city and its contemporary façade, there’s much to do during a three-day visit…

The Solo Female Traveller trend is growing. At the end of last year I wrote a comprehensive post about The Rise of Solo Female Travel outlining tips and trends. It talks about how more women, of all races, ages, occupations and with various interests are…

Bathurst, a sleepy frontier town in the Eastern Cape Province, boasts the world’s largest pineapple and South Africa’s oldest continually-licensed pub.

LGBTQI Travel: Here are the 22 most gay-friendly African countries to travel to based on recent news reports and research conducted by human rights groups.

This is a comprehensive month-to-month travel calendar of what to see and do in South Africa in 2019. The guide includes bucket list things to do in Mzansi from music, cultural and beer festivals to epic trail runs and surfing competitions.

As has now become an annual tradition, at the end of each year, I trace the memories of new destinations I’ve discovered and those I have explored anew, through my photographs.

Magic abounds in Poland. It’s a country where old and new coalesce, and is home to 14 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It is a destination filled with Gothic cityscapes, medieval castles and where you’ll find a city quite literally overrun with gnomes. Mythical dragons, mermaids and…

In Art of Travel, Alain de Botton of The School of Life captures the reasons why I prefer solo travel. “It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity…