Welcome to the Greenwood Guide! We are South Africa’s oldest independent guidebook, now in our 20th year. We take a unique approach to being a travel website: we handpick (as in personally inspect) every single place we list through a network of contributors who report back on places to stay, eat, and play in their own communities around the country.

These contributions are constantly updated through our site so everything you see is live and up to date, every day. Our goal has always been to provide a genuine alternative to mass-market tourism by relying on local knowledge and honest, independent perspectives.