If you love Instagram, hanging out with other people who love Instagram, and taking photos of quaint towns for your Instagram feed, then you’ll be pleased to learn that South Africa’s first weekend-long Instameet is set to take place in September this year.
The event, which takes place between 24 and 27 September in the Karoo town of Graaf Reinet, is the result of a collaboration between Cerebra founder Craig Rodney, the @southafrica account, and South African Tourism.
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According to the event website, the idea is to get as many people as possible “to travel across our beautiful country, documenting their journey, and ending up together in the town of Graaff-Reinet”.
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Activities for the weekend, which is open to all South African Instagram users, include “hosted photo-walks, bonfires, and sunrise missions”.
In order to encourage as many people as possible to attend, the organisers have put up a subsidy for the weekend. The first 100 people to register for the Instameet will each receive a R1000.00 travel & accommodation subsidy, and the second 100 people to register will each receive a R500.00 travel & accommodation subsidy.
All other travel and accommodation costs must be paid for by the participants themselves, so the organisers suggest finding people to share rides and rooms with.
To date more than 300 people have signed up for the event, so anyone hoping to take advantage of the travel subsidy should be hoping for
