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Montaqu
Montagu, on Route 62 is approximately 2 hours drive from Cape Town. Montaqu is a peaceful town steeped in history and is famous for its awe inspiring rock formations, orchards, vineyards, local herbs and healing hot mineral springs. Visitors to Montaqu will discover the Wildflower Natu ... [ .... more ]
Port Elizabeth
Port Elizabeth is situated 260 km from Knysna and about 800km from Cape Town. Port Elizabeth is known for its sunshine and safe sandy beaches . For the tourist wanting a total South African experience, Port Elizabeth is the perfect complement to the Garden Route, Settler Hinterland, Su ... [ .... more ]
Roodepoort
Roodepoort is a city in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Johannesburgs most famous botanical garden, Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden, is located in Roodepoort. In 1884, brothers Fred and Harry Struben, having discovered gold on the farm Wilgespruit at the western end of the Wit ... [ .... more ]
South Africa Gourmet Experience
The Good Cooks and their Country Houses is a group of owner run guest houses offering traditional South African hospitality and sublime food. Each property has been hand picked for its high standard of personal service, relaxed atmosphere, simple elegance and of coyurse passion for good food a ... [ .... more ]
Patensie
In 1876 the farm "Patentie" of 3000 morgen was awarded to David Keyser jnr. In 1852 the farm was sud-divided and in 1858 Patensie was declared a town. The name Patensie has a Hottentot origin and means "lêplek van die beeste" (where the cattle lie). At first, because ... [ .... more ]
South Africa Tree Top Canopy tours
Tree top canopy tours are offered in 3 locations in South Africa. Tree top canopy slides were originally designed to allow biologists access to mysterious forest canopies in order to study the hard-to-get at plants and beasties that live high up in Costa Rican rainforest. Canopy Tour ... [ .... more ]
Umhlali
Umhlali is a farming village which lies inland from Salt Rock and Sheffield Beach. Umhlali was established by British and Scottish Byrne settlers in 1850 and was the site of a fort which led to it originally being called Fort William by the settlers. Umhlali is the Zulu name for the ... [ .... more ]
Amatola mountains
The Amatola Mountains near Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape are clad with lush indigenous forest and capped with flower-rich montane grassland. The Kologha and Kubusie Forests are fine examples of Afromontane forest, and are some of the most extensive tracts of indigenous forest outside of the ... [ .... more ]
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is where the red dunes and scrub fade into infinity and herds of gemsbok, springbok, eland and blue wildebeest follow the seasons, where imposing camel thorn trees provide shade for huge black-mane lions and vantage points for leopard and many raptors. The Kgal ... [ .... more ]
Calitzdorp
Calitzdorp is situated in the Klein Karoo in the Western Cape. During the pioneering days hunting was good in the Klein Karoo and soon homesteads were built and by 1845 a community centre was established. Calitzdorp enjoys a mild climate, especially in winter, and its mineral rich spring wat ... [ .... more ]
Karoo
The Karoo is a semi-desert region of South Africa. It has two main sub-regions - the Great Karoo and the Little Karoo. Great Karoo Currently sheep farming is still the economic backbone of the Great Karoo with other forms of agriculture taking place in areas where irrigation ... [ .... more ]
The Garden Route
The Garden Route, strictly speaking runs via the N2 along the coast from Mossel Bay to just beyond Plettenberg Bay, and has become overpriced, overdeveloped and less-than-fascinating. But extend the route to a circular, south coast drive starting at Cape Town, and heading first for Hermanus B ... [ .... more ]
Queenstown
Queenstown is situated in the Frontier Country of the Eastern Cape. Queenstown is the commercial, administrative and educational centre of a prosperous farming district. The layout of Queenstown reflects its original objective as a defensive stronghold for the frontier area and has a most u ... [ .... more ]
Outeniqua Mountains
The Outeniqua Mountains are a mountain range located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is traversed by the Montagu Pass and the Outeniqua Pass. The Outeniqua Mountains rise from the Indian Ocean coastal plain, north o ... [ .... more ]
Smithfield
Smithfield is a small town in the Free State Province of South Africa. Smithfield is the third oldest village in Free State. Places to visit are the Caledon river museum, the Carmel and Beersheba missionary posts. Smithfield is a village that is experiencing something of a revival, with more ... [ .... more ]
West Coast
Travelling up the West Coast from Cape Town on the R27, through Milnerton, and Bloubergstrand, the first recommended stop would be Yzerfontein, a small holiday and fishing village. There is a deserted beach ideal for suntanning and surfing. The West Coast town of Darling is best known ... [ .... more ]
Whale Route
The Whale Route starts along the south of Cape Town and extends north of Durban, 1,200 plus miles of whale watching coastline. The Whale Route traverses several famous protected areas, including the Garden Rout ... [ .... more ]
Barrydale
Barrydale situated on Route 62 in the Western Cape lies between between two extremes. On the one side is the beautiful and fertile Tradouw Valley and on the other side you are faced with the stark and semi-arid Klein Karoo. These striking contrasts are experienced in a distance of 10km. ... [ .... more ]
Baviaanskloof, Eastern Cape
The Garden Route along the N2 in the eastern Cape is well known. Every section of the route offers something different, with magnificent scenery around every bend. Eastwards from Mossel Bay the road hugs the coast all the way to Storms ... [ .... more ]
George
George lies at the some 10 kilometres away from the sea at the foot of the picturesque Outeniqua Mountains. The beginnings of the town date back to the year 1776, when the Dutch-East Indian Trading Company established here one of its timber supply bases. George was officially only founded in ... [ .... more ]




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