Lieve Claessen

Lieve Claessen

Lieve Claessen

Ori­gin­ally from Bel­gi­um, Lieve Claessen first vis­ited South Africa in 1999 where she met her hus­band, Elli­ot Sonjani.

In 2001 the couple moved to Bel­gi­um where they wel­comed the arrival of their two chil­dren. After years of dream­ing and plan­ning, the young fam­ily moved back to South Africa in 2009 to found Elundini Back­pack­ers in the Hogs­back region.

How a small South African backpackers is making a big community-based difference

February 28, 2020
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Elundini Backpackers homestead. Image supplied by author.

The Hogs­back region in the East­ern Cape of South Africa attracts vis­it­ors to its indi­gen­ous forests, lush moun­tain­ous land­scape, and breath­tak­ing hikes. Lieve Claessen and part­ner Elli­ot Son­jani oper­ate Elundini Back­pack­ers in a rur­al com­munity at the edge of Hogs­back. In this won­der-filled “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Lieve shares some of the ongo­ing chal­lenges facing Elundini […]

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