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Table Mountain Cape Town
195 Reviews Wherever you go in Cape Town, Table Mountain dominates the skyline, so what could be more natural than finding out what the city looks like from the top? The cablecar ride to the top of Table...
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Game Reserves Johannesburg
33 Reviews De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre Besides 'normal' cheetahs, De Wildt has a number of King Cheetahs, distinguished by the different coat pattern. There is also a healthy population of African wild...
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Big 5 Kruger National Park
40 Reviews The African Elephant is easily distinguished from Asian Elephants as they have larger ears. The fact that you are in Africa is also a give away. They guys are massive. They are the largest land...
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Penguins / Boulders Beach Cape Town
84 Reviews However often we visit Cape Town, we never tire of Boulders Beach. The main visitor centre with the wooden boardwalks down into the penguin colony are great, and lots of other tourists have written...
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Gold Reef City Johannesburg
22 Reviews Gold Reef City is a Johannesburg institution and as my kids have been nagging me to go for months, I finally succumbed early in the New Year. I have to declare my bias: I hate theme parks, I dislike...
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Game Drives (guided) Kruger National Park
13 Reviews One of the good reasons to have a guided tour sometimes is that they (the guides) can also communicate with each other live while on the game drive and tell each other where the exotic animals are....
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Cape Point Cape Town
145 Reviews Cape Point is a glorious location, especially if the weather is good. Actually it's probably even more impressive when the weather is foul and you get a real sense of what the first explorers had to...
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Sun City Johannesburg
17 Reviews Hey guys Sun city the name which is almost known to most of the passionate tourists coming to South Africa the place where there is a heaven between the mountains far away from here when you approach...
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Game Drives (Self-Driving) Kruger National Park
31 Reviews The Vervet Monkeys are rather common and you might see them in many places, on the road, on the trees and also at the camps, they are much smaller then the baboons and seems very friendly and sweet,...
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Scenic drives / Garden Route Cape Town
50 Reviews 'Iconic' is one of my favourite words (as those who have read my travel pages will know) and there are few locations in Cape Town that better deserve this adjective than the Chapman's Peak Drive! The...
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Downtown Architecture and Tours Johannesburg
20 Reviews The Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) is exhibiting some of its historical Dutch collection in three of the gallery rooms between 13 November 2011 and 25 March 2012. This exhibition is being curated by...
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Game Drives (at night) Kruger National Park
19 Reviews Although you can see plenty of game in Kruger during the day, a night safari gives you an entirely different perspective of the park. You can see some animals that are nocturnal, such as leopards and...
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Wine route / Stellenbosch Cape Town
68 Reviews This small town, situated about 40 km east of Cape Town, is worth visiting for a couple of reasons. Founded in 1679, it is the second oldest town in South Africa (the first one is Cape Town)....
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Randburg Waterfront Johannesburg
5 Reviews Well the Randburg Waterfront has been revamped and is now called the Bright Water Commons. There is alot less water but is a 100 times nicer than before. Its a very nice to do a little shopping ,...
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other wildlife Kruger National Park
54 Reviews There is a colony of fruit bats that live underneath the thatched roofs of the outdoor dining pavilions at Skukuza Camp in Kruger. They hang upside down from the rafters and sleep during the day. The...
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V & A Waterfront Cape Town
81 Reviews This is a very popular tourist attraction besides being a working port. You can sense the vibrancy of the area as soon as you get there. There just seems to be a lightness of mood as people wander...
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Apartheid Museum Johannesburg
17 Reviews Jo'burg is sadly not a city blessed with many great museums, but the Apartheid Museum is truly world class and a moving testament to South Africa's troubled history. The title is slightly misleading,...
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Birds Kruger National Park
27 Reviews In addition to its large game animals, Kruger is also the home to a lot of interesting and photogenic bird species. These include eagles, spoonbills, storks, rollers, owls, cormorants, haws, and...
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Beaches Cape Town
91 Reviews Kommetjie (pronounced "Kom-e-key") is one very laid back place, and arguably the New Age capital of the Cape Peninsula. Kommetjie is located on the Atlantic side of the peninsula, just south of...
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Harbeesport Dam Johannesburg
6 Reviews The De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Conservation Centre is an interesting place for what the tour operators bill as a “half day tour”. You have to be up early for the 08h00 tour as it takes at least...
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Walking safari Kruger National Park
7 Reviews I’ve been planning and waiting for the walking safari since I was booking the flights and, yes, it was just fantastic. You wake up before sunrise, have a quick warm drink and off to the savannah....
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Museums / Historical Interest Cape Town
85 Reviews The Cape Town museum is located at the end of the Corporation Gardens just next to Parliament, and is a great natural history museum that doesn't seem to get the credit that it deserves. The building...
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MonteCasino Johannesburg
11 Reviews Bright and cheerful entertainment is ongoing at Montecasino Montecasino has buskers, street performers, wandering around and entertaining people. Busking dates back through the ages to earliest...
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camps Kruger National Park
8 Reviews THIS CAMP TO IS SET IN THE NORTHERN REGION OF THE PARK, IT IS SET ALONG THE REMOTE AREA OF THE LETABA RIVER, SO NOT SUPRISSING THAT IT OFFERS GREAT GAME VIEWING FROM THE RIVER AND SURROUNDING THE CAMP...
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Kirstenbosch Gardens Cape Town
65 Reviews A visit to a botanical garden in winter - is it worth paying an admission fee? If you are in Cape Town in winter, don't hesitate. They say that each season is good to visit Kirstenbosch Botanical...
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Naturally, we didn't want to go all the way to Africa and not see any of the magnificent wildlife that still walks the great continent. We signed up for two safari's on reserves bordering Kruger National Park. While both were well worth the trip, Akeru in the Timbavati was superior to Kapama. It's true that Kapama is more upscale but the more rustic Akeru, somehow seemed more authentic. In any case, if you've never done it, a safari is not to be missed.
The Pretoria Zoo was established in 1899 and is the only zoo in South Africa with National Status and is rated as one of the top zoos in the world, attracting thousands of local and international visitors annually.
Kruger National Park is one of the greater sanctuaries of wild life in the world. The five great ones live there: lion, leopard, rhino, elephant and buffalo. You can also find hundreds of other animals: zebras, monkeys, giraffes, crocodiles, antelopes, birds, etc. You need at least 3 days (better 4 or more). It is better to take a tour so you get an experienced ranger that knows how and where are the animals. Sometimes it is difficult to find them, even when the ranger tells you where is the animal!!!During the winter, there is not so wild vegetation, so it is a little bit easier to find animals.
I'd reccomend stopping for a drink at Ronnie's Sex Shop! No, it's not really a "sex" shop. But when he painted ronnie's shop on it, his friends decided to pull a prank and painted sex up there. It stuck. It's in the middle of nowhere. Little Karoo. The walls are covered with markered quotes and drawings and names of people from all over the world, even the refrigerators, ceilings, photos are covered. It's super cool. Of course I couldn't resist the urge to draw so I drew a giraffe and one of my favorite Eddie Izzard (British comedian/actor) references, "An evil herbivore."
This small city lived its great splendour when the ostrich feathers began to be desired by the best European Mode Designers. The farms were multiplied, farmers built great fortunes and you could see in the town some of the small palaces of that time that are still conserved. You can today visit the farms, touch the little ostriches, taste ostrich eggs and meat and even ride an ostrich in some farms!There is also a kind of zoo “Crocodile and Cheethaland”, see next tip...
Kidd's Beach Main Beach is beautiful and nice to go for the day! There is a lot of rocks & shells that get washed out. See photo's on the link below. I will place my photo's on a later stage when I am back in South Africa.
Please see my other pages for more info, but hiking in the drakensberg was fantastic, cintsa was a great little resort on the beach in the transkei. The garden route was ok but didnt see that much of it. Cape Town was awesome! Kruger was great too.On second visit in 2010 - Lesotho was great but Soweto was the highlight of SA - a must!
Oudtshoorn are famous for three things, firstly the Kango caves, followed by its ostriches and the last but now ways least for the KKNK (Klein Karoo Nationale Kunstefees) festival which takes place annually around easter weekend. During the festival, the whole town becomes one big jol and you find festival go-ers running from show to show being it drama or music. Oudtshoorn is the ostrich capital of the world. Here ostriches are found in great numbers and the region produces the best feathers, leather products and ostrich meat world wide. But the world’s biggest bird is just one of the many attractions in this area of interesting contrasts. This small, safe town is the commercial hub of the greater Klein Karoo region (encompassing Prince Albert, De Rust and Calitzdorp) and is situated in a beautiful valley between the Outeniqua- and Swartberg Mountains. This unique position ( being...
I was indeed very fortunate that my friend invited me to the park. Mokala is SANParks newest park, situated approximately 80km south-southwest of Kimberley, and west of the N12 freeway to Cape Town. Nestled in the hills, Mokala's landscape boasts a variety of koppieveld (hills) and large open plains. I loved the park, because it is open, the camp sites are not fenced in ....... no need for that as there are no preditors in the park. They have two of the big five namely the rhino & buffalo in the park.The isolated dolerite hills give the place a calming feeling of seclusion. A big surprise awaits when you pass through the hills and are confronted by the large open sandy plains towards the north and west of the Park. Mokala is a Setswana name for a Camel Thorn (Kameeldoring). These trees occur in dry woodland and arid, sandy areas and are one of the major tree species of the desert regions...
Ladismith is a very interesting little town in the western Kleinkaroo region of South Africa's Western Cape province. Mostly known for its ostrich farming, this little place has lots to offer the traveller on route to Oudtshoorn. The town came into being in 1852 when the farm Elandsvlei was earmarked for the town, and it gained municipal status in 1862. It was named after Lady Juana Smith.It is situated adjacent to a series of fertile, irrigated valleys, at an altitude of 550m, at the southern base of the Swartberg. It is currently included in the southern Kannaland LM. The nearest towns are Calitzdorp to the east, Vanwyksdorp and Riversdale to the south and Laingsburg to the north.
The Table Bay Hotel Cape Town
9 Reviews and 345 Opinions One of the more expensive options, but if you can afford it then go for it. The location is great,...
The Westcliff Hotel Johannesburg
5 Reviews and 201 Opinions Being a local, I have never stayed here (and probably couldn't afford to!) - having visited business...
Skukuza Restcamp - Kruger National Park Kruger National Park
8 Reviews and 100 Opinions This is the largest camp on the banks of the Sabie river, it is also the administrative centre of...
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Q: Hi all, im travelling to South Africa and Malarone is not sold in Argentina, so I should buy it when I get to South Africa. Do you...
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