Seychelles Tourism are organising a half trail marathon in paradise. Image: Supplied. Seychelles is targeting trail runners with a half marathon in paradise.
And a women-only event in Tanzania lets you run among wildlife in the Serengeti – and then recover on evening game drives.
Africa’s most idyllic destinations are increasingly targeting tourists keen to get their heart rates up with spectacular annual events.
Here are some of the continent’s best destination events currently open for entries.
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Sporting events have long been used to attract wealthy tourists to global destinations. City-based marathons, like those in New York, London, and Paris, are particularly well-known for this .
And South Africa is no stranger to the magnetism of significant sporting events, with annual activities like the Comrades Marathon, Two Oceans Marathon, and Cape Town Cycle Tour pulling in large numbers of foreign entrants.And on a far more casual level, adventure-based holidays, like trekking to base camps, rafting down rivers, or embarking on multi-day hikes, are nothing new.But increasingly, some of Africa’s most celebrated destinations combine the two by targeting the world’s more active travellers with unique events in spectacular, surreal, and sometimes seemingly impossible surroundings.From a half trail marathon through an African island paradise to a mountain bike ‘race’ in big five country, here are six of Africa’s top events currently accepting entries. 5:58I travelled to Algeria to run through the desert: Here’s why this adventure holiday could be for […]
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