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Cape Point   Cape Town

Cape Point, Cape Town

 20 Reviews  This one day trip around the Cape Peninsula was the best day of our visit to Cape Town. We are grateful to our wonderful guide and great companion for the day - a VT member Mariana known as Mvtouring.... 

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wildlife   Kruger National Park

wildlife, Kruger National Park

 52 Reviews  To help you spot more animals try looking for what should NOT be there. For example, is that solitary dark tuft of grass in the distance really a tuft of grass or a lion lying low? Is that grey object... 

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Beaches   Cape Town

Beaches, Cape Town

 27 Reviews  Fishoek is a small little town on False Bay and is also on the way to Simon's Town and Boulders Beach. It doesnt seem like there is much happening in this beautiful spot other than people Fishing or... 

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facts   Kruger National Park

facts, Kruger National Park

 9 Reviews  People who travel over borders via KNP will require to overnight in the park, not just drive through, proof of overnight stay will be required at borders.Please check with KNP or on their website for... 

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Table Mountain   Cape Town

Table Mountain, Cape Town

 27 Reviews  The decision was made: we are walking down. Today I am not sure if it was the right thing to do - we didn't know the way, we had no map or guide, we had no idea what to expect. By the way, one... 

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landscape   Kruger National Park

landscape, Kruger National Park

 9 Reviews  An advantage of game viewing in October, at the end of the dry winter season, is that the waterholes and rivers are all parched. This has the effect of bunching the game up for much easier viewing.... 

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Tours   Cape Town

Tours, Cape Town

 10 Reviews  It's not often that you need a tour guide in cities that you know well, but on my last trip to Cape Town, I came across Allan Korsman of Blue Monkey Tours, who lead the tour that I joined at Groote... 

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history   Kruger National Park

history, Kruger National Park

 3 Reviews  The Kruger National Park itself has been in existence since 1926, effectively, in its present form. It is virtually unrivalled in species diversity (both animal and plant), and is a world leader in... 

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V & A Waterfront   Cape Town

V & A Waterfront, Cape Town

 11 Reviews   There are several good spots to go shopping. Whether you choose to stroll through a fleamarket or around a modern department store, there are many possibilities to satisfy your need. The Victoria... 

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Wine Route / Stellenbosch   Cape Town

Wine Route / Stellenbosch, Cape Town

 5 Reviews  Unique landscapes - wine tasting - mountains - nice people - black or white! Different generations ! Democracy is the objective - they will get their target !! What are you looking for !! This is SA !... 

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Kirstenbosch Gardens   Cape Town

Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town

 10 Reviews  One of the spectacular features of Kirstenbosch Garden is its location. Cape Town's Table Top Mountain creates a magnificent background for the beautiful garden of colorful flowers. Hikers can... 

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Embeth Jean Davidtz

by mvtouring

Embeth Jean Davidtz (born August 11, 1966) is an American-born South African actress. Born in Lafayette, Indiana while her father was studying chemical engineering at Purdue University. Both her father John and her mother Jean are South Africans. Later the family moved to Trenton, New Jersey, but moved back to South Africa when Davidtz was 9 years old, where her father took up a teaching post at Potchefstroom University.She graduated from The Glen High School in Pretoria in 1983, and earned a degree (cum laude) in Drama & English Literature from Rhodes University in Grahamstown.Davidtz made her professional acting debut at age 21 with CAPAB (Cape Performing Arts Board now known as Artscape) in Cape Town, playing "Juliet" in a stage production of Romeo and Juliet, at the Maynardville Open-Air Theatre.Performing in English and Afrikaans, the bilingual actress also starred other local...

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Our first Miss World (1958)

by mvtouring

Penelope Anne Coelen (born 1939, Durban, South Africa) was Miss World 1958.In 1958, the Miss World Pageant was still in its early years. Its eighth pageant was a great success, attracting 22 contestants from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. Europeans dominated the semi-finals with 9 out of 12 places secured by women from the host continent. 5 of the 6 finalists were from Europe as well, but it was a striking young woman from the Republic of South Africa who took home the coveted crown.Penelope Anne Coelen, or Penny to her friends and fans, was elected Miss World and was the first major international titleholder to come from Africa. The stunning 18-year-old secretary from Durban enraptured the audience with her poise and beauty. She gained widespread international attention during her reign and received several lucrative modeling offers. After her reign as Miss World 1958, she tried...

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Our first Miss Universe (1978)

by mvtouring

Margaret Gardiner was our first Miss Universe. This beautifull lady was born on 21 August 1959 in Woodstock, Cape Town. She is 1.73 metres tall and lives in the USA these days where her husband Dr Andre Nel practices.

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What is fynbos?

by mvtouring

Fynbos is evergreen shrubland vegetation, characterized by small leafed, drought tolerant tough plants growing on poor soil. (The name means "fine leafed" bush.) It has extraordinary diversity of species - more than 8 000, including Erica's (shrubs with small, fine leaves and delicate tube-like flowers), Protea's (woody shrubs with leathery leaves) and always Restio's (reed-like plants with no leaves). It is also rich in bulbous plants (such as the gladiolus species). There are many endemic species

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South African wines

by Jenniflower

South African wines are on average very good. A few are truly superb!!!. They have long been underrated (and boycotted due to apartheid) internationally, but are now gaining a good reputation. Wine lands and wine tasting!There are some spectacular wine farms in Cape Town especially... in Constantia (southern suburbs in Cape Town), Paarl, Franschoek, Stellenbosch etc.Take a lazy drive there and feast on some local foods and wines and scenery!

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Animal skins and the fur trade

by Jenniflower

A contentious subject to say the least!Animal skins, fur and the ivory trade have been waging war with the authorities for many years. There is plenty of money to be made in this industry, and criminals know it! They come into the game parks and poach these defenceless animals, often hacking off their horns and tusks whilst they are still alive.They then die a slow and painful death. Unless they are first found by a ranger and a merciful bullet. It's a sad and enraging scenario.There has been some success though in the prevention of such, where private landowners have stood up and become part of the conservation preservation progress within the country. There is progress, which is great, but there will always be those poachers that are looking for that quick money unfortunately. Plus some private game owners charge exhorbitant sums of money from foreigners to come and kill their game...

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Alan Paton ~ literary genius imho!

by Jenniflower

This tip is for anyone interested in South African literature. One of my favourite books is Cry the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton. Another is Diepkloof.We studied them at school in great depth and it tells so much about the political sphere South Africa was in, and all the drama that went on, all that I had no knowledge of growing up.The story is set in the fertile and wild Kwa-Zulu Natal region, as well as in the concrete jungle of prosperous Johannesburg. The main theme is how city life can corrupt you. It is a book full of emotion. Tragedy, sorrow, elation, forgiveness. It is a book that crosses the racial divide and poses many questions. It was first published in 1948 and has always been a literary success.There is an Alan Paton tour which is in a steam train, and takes you pass Ixopo High (Secondary) School where this famous author taught. I do believe it is important for one to...

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Reality

by TheWanderingCamel

'Fondest" and "favourite" are hardly the right words to describe some of these thoughts and memories, but where else to put them is difficult. No visit to South Africa can fail to leave some harsh impressions - the aching poverty of squatter's camps, chronic unemployment that sees groups of aimless youths everywhere and cars besieged by hawkers with their few pathetic items for sale at every red traffic light, whole hillsides covered with tiny houses set down on barren earth in a sea of soul-destroying uniformity - all this and much more and that's without the evidence of the duel scourges of HIV-AIDS and crime that the visitor and tourist is less likely to have to confront in his/her cushioned and protected state. However, harsh and difficult as these realities are, don't let them keep you away from this fantastic country. There is so much that is so rewarding and joyous here as well....

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The waterways of South Africa

by Jenniflower

There are no important lakes within South Africa, and the inland plateau is drained by two river systems, the Orange and Vaal rivers. There are severe water shortages, with droughts often occurring) and the government has created several artificial lakes, primarily for agricultural irrigation, the Lesotho Highlands Project (a project in conjunction with the Lesotho government) being a HUGE project undertaken many years ago to curb the country-wide water shortage.

Jenniflower, call home!

by Jenniflower

Nearly 5 million landlines and 17 million cell (mobile) phones are in use in South Africa. The system is the best developed and most modern in Africa by far. There are 3 million internet users (most using dial-up and ADSL). The internet domain is co.za and the dialling code is +27.

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